First you specify 4:3 or 16:9 in the setup menu, as you would with any other DVD player. Then you can zoom based on that aspect ratio I used to sell a particular model of DVD player that offered arbitrary X-Y scaling. It was very popular with the PAL crowd. That unit would certainly let you do 3:1. On 13-Jul-05, at 2:24 PM, Manfredi, Albert E wrote: > Question: do you need to tell this player what the > display's aspect ratio is, in spite of the zoom feature? > In other words, does the zoom feature merely provide > signal out to a certain 4:3 or 16:9 limit, or does it > allow for full resolution images to be transmitted, say, > to a 3:1 aspect ratio display? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.