"John Russell" wrote in message
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"RSD" wrote in message
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"Hywel Jenkins" wrote in message
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I'm mucking about with the demo of DVD Lab, trying to get 16:9 output
from ES4.1.4 on to disc. That I can do, to an extent.

I've set up the menu, linked it all together, and compiled the DVD,
which plays correctly on my PC with WinDVD6. The VOBs also play
correctly with BSPlayer. When I burn the DVD it plays correctly in my
PC
under WinDVD, but on the TV both the menus and the video are cropped,
losing a significant amount the of the picture. It's as if the playback
has been put through pan & scan between my Pioneer DVD Player and
Panasonic widescreen telly, and a Panasonic DVD recorder, and the same
Panadonic widescreen telly.

I've burnt the movie to DVD-RAM as standard DVD-RAM disc, and as a
proper DVD. No joy with either.

The video is captured in 16:9 from a Sony MiniDV camera - no problems
with that, or any of the production process until I try to play it on
the TV.

Any ideas? I ramped up the video quality to maximum in ES, set the
aspect ratio accordingly and so on. Away from the TV it's fine, on it,
it's poo-poo.

Can you not try it out with another TV, as everything seems to point to
the
TV being the cause of this?
My Son bought a huge great fancy widescreen TV, told me how amazing it
was
etc. etc. When I went over to UK to visit, first thing I did was to
sneakily
set the picture up correctly - I didn?t say anything but sat back and
watched as all the family started to comment on how the picture was
suddenly
much better!

Rob


Hywel





So someone admits to tampering as well!

Can´t help it, John. I was in a local Computer / Electrodomestico store and
I just *had* to change the resolution of some of the monitors they had on
display. The Guy was just about to tell me to "*** off" when he saw what I
had been doing. He looked genuinely surprised, like a sort of "Wow! Didn´t
know they were that good!" expression. While he contemplated the new
improved pictures on their demo videos, I sauntered off to another part of
the store.
Still, they´re not as bad as another well known computer store here which
have all their latest machines displaying the same pop videos with sound and
video resolution so bad I reckon someone originally recorded it on their
mobile phone! And they wonder why no one´s impressed with the machines. I´m
sure they don´t sell any!


Rob