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    Weird Dell Media Experience Aspect ratio problem

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by wedge_oli, Sep 9, 2005.

  1. wedge_oli

    wedge_oli Notebook Guru

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    Hi everyone, I was just wondering what you can do when DVDs are encoded as 4:3, but the actual picture is widescreen. So you end up with a widescreen picture, confined within a 4:3 display, on your widescreen monitor! After all that wasted real estate, you basically end up with a tiny little movie playing in a sea of black borders. Anyone know a way around this? Either by playing with the settings or by burning, recropping, etc?

    -oliver-
     
    wedge_oli, Sep 9, 2005
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  2. kornchild2002

    kornchild2002 Notebook Deity

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    To my knowledge, you can't do anything. Some of the older DVD's are 4:3 movies with the black bars on the top and bottom instead of actual 16:9 movies. Unless your prefered DVD playback software has a zoom feature where you can adjust the aspect ratio, then you will have to live with the black bars on the top, bottom, left, and right.
     
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  3. wedge_oli

    wedge_oli Notebook Guru

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    Wow, god**** is that ever a pain. Ah well :( Thanks for the answer!
     
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  4. LuckMC11

    LuckMC11 Computer Extraoirdinaire NBR Reviewer

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    actually...u can get it to work properly no matter what aspect ratio it is...to fit properly on your widescreen monitor!!!!....just use cyberlink powerdvd 5 or 6...i think your laptop came with 1...hope that helps :D :D
     
    LuckMC11, Sep 9, 2005
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    i saw you mention that powerdvd will do that so i just checked the app and i'm not sure what you're talking about? do you mean the forced pan/scan? if so, you should mention that it cuts off a lot of the picture which IMO is much worse than black bars
     
    drumfu, Sep 9, 2005
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