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is it my tv thats faulty?
Is there a way I can check my tv viewing setting is set to widescreen on my sanyo CE24WN5-B?
I recorded prison break last night onto my sky+ box then I copied it to my toshiba dvd recorder when I started to edit it I noticed that the aspect ratio was 4.3 instead of 16.9. I recorded a bit of another widesceen programme right onto my dvd recorder that also was 4.3 when I started to edit it. I recorded a bit of the late widescreen film on the bbc 1 channel not through sky box this also was 4.3 when I started the edit function on the dvd recorder. sky+ box viewing setting 16.9 Toshiba RD=X30SB viewing setting wide. I spoke to sky techicnal support he said it wasn't the sky box it was the dvd recorder I then rang toshiba help line was on the phone for nearly 30 minutes while the lady tried her best to help me but no joy. I be trying to speak to sanyo techicnal help but I couldn't get hold of anyone. |
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I spoke to sky techicnal support he said it wasn't the sky box it was the dvd recorder I then rang toshiba help line was on the phone for nearly 30 minutes while the lady tried her best to help me but no joy.
This is what has happened with you - the widescreen picture has been recorded (i.e. everybody looks tall and thin, and if you were to manually select 16:9 as the aspect ratio on your TV when watching the DVD back it will look correct) but the widescreen switch hasn't, which is why you have to manually select 16:9 rather than your TV doing it automatically for you. Your DVDR is not unique - there are easily as many recorders which don't record the switch as there are ones which do. Also, some recorders recognise and record the switch on certain disc formats (DVD-RW springs to mind) but not on other formats. When watching back recordings on a widescreen TV it is not normally a problem, as you can manually select "Wide" or "16:9" or whatever the setting is called on your TV. Where it becomes a problem is when watching it back on a 4:3 TV or a computer monitor, as in these circumstances you often don't have the ability to manually stretch the picture out, so you end up watching a distorted 4:3 picture with everything appearing to be tall and thin. |
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