| Registered: April 13, 2007 |  Posts: 651 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have recently bought Panasonic DMP-BD 50 and I have tried it out with several movies now. I can tell that certain movies which are encoded as 4:3 Letterbox correctly, shows as 16:9 (fullscreen) on my LCD. I have tried The Abyss DVD, which are encoded as LB as you all probably know by now, and to my surprise the movie was stretched to correct proporsion as a 16:9 picture. How they do it in the player,I don't know but thought I should post this so you others could take a part of this  | | | "What's God?"
"You know when you want something really bad and you wish for it?, God's the guy that ignores you"
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| Registered: March 24, 2007 |  Posts: 240 |
| | Posted: | | | | There are a few DVD players that can scale a LB DVD to fit a 16:9 screen, but if you want a test that almost all of them failed find a LB DVD that had subtitles that displayed in the black band at the bottom. If your panasonic can move the subtitles up onto the picture (not just cut them off) then you should be impressed! | | | | Tom. |
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| Registered: April 13, 2007 | | Posts: 651 |
| | Posted: | | | | Well mine failed too. Tried out the Abyss, and the subtitles were cut as you suspected. Anyway, I think it's great that my Panasonic scales it correct to 16:9, wether the subtitles are correct or not  But HOW do they do it? I have tested several LB movies, but it seems that they have to be correct coded as LB, Abyss worked, Commando worked, but several other LB movies I have didn't stretch out, so they haven't got it right though.. But neat anyway. However the Abyss is a 2.35:1 release so I kinda suspected it myself. Commando has the subtitles within the picture, so they have got it right at least | | | "What's God?"
"You know when you want something really bad and you wish for it?, God's the guy that ignores you"
-The Island, Steve Buscemi |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,918 |
| | Posted: | | | | They do it by scanning for black top & bottom bars and if they find it in the expected range to stretch the picture.
My widescreen TV has a setting to do this dynamically but it's not reliable because anything showing up in the lower area causes the TV to rethink it's decision. |
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