objects look wide

[jakester]

WE just purchased a new52" lCD tv, watched a movie last night thru the DVD player and I noticed most of the times in the movie Air Force One or any movie that the people look wide, later in the evening there was a commercial on about music, they showed pics of the CD's disk they looked a bit oval instead of perfectly round, is this common on the new big screen tv's

Chet

 

[MDS]

You need to first verify that the DVD player and Cable Box have been set to 16:9 aspect ratio. There is usually a menu option for configuring the output. It may be called 'picture shape'.

However, these TVs include zoom or stretch modes for expanding a 4:3 aspect ratio image to fill the screen and some of them will result in objects sometimes looking fat or wide.

I usually leave mine (Toshiba LCD) on 'full' but on some shows the bottom is cut off slightly and I need to switch to 'theatre wide 1' to make it right. You'll have to experiment and get familiar with how the different zoom modes affect the picture on different sources.

 

[Pyrrho]

As MDS says, you need to check the settings on both the player and the TV to get it right. Since it was also a problem with a commercial, most likely your problem is a TV setting. It might be labeled "zoom" or "aspect". Check the manual for the TV, and go into the menu to set this how you want it.

TVs are typically made so that you can keep everything undistorted and uncropped, or you can set things to distort and/or crop in order to fill the screen. Some people want their big screens full, no matter how bad it ends up looking.

 

[jakester]

Tv

Thanks for the tips, the tv is a new Samsung LN52B750, I will check the settings

Chet

 

[Pyrrho]

Thanks for the tips, the tv is a new Samsung LN52B750, I will check the settings

Chet

Look on page 4: The button labeled "P.SIZE" on your remote should deal with this (it is button # 24 in the manual).

Look on page 18 for a description of your options. From what you have stated, most likely, you will tend to like the settings labeled "16:9" and "4:3", depending on the source. I recommend using a test disc to set up your TV, and use test patterns to observe a bit more precisely what the various options actually do.

Take the time to read your manual, and play with the TV while doing so, so that you will know what everything does.

 

[Audioholics]

My parents went through this as well - but for them it was a result of having bought "Fullscreen" versions of their movies... that is to say their entire DVD collection was mastered in a 4:3 aspect ratio.