Sides are chopped off when played on Letterbox tv

[meeno]

I recently burned a movie that is very wide screen (almost half the screen has black bars above and below the film). When I play it on my computer, it's fine, but when I play it on TV, the sides get chopped off.

What's causig this and how can I fix it? DVD player is PS2

[junkmalle]

TV's are designed to overscan. The edges of the picture are always cut off by the bezel around the tube.

[edDV]

This is done so TVs can be made with loose tolerance for framing the video.

This is one of the reasons why TV sets cost less than a third that of a professional broadcast monitor.

[wulf109]

Are you using 16:9 tv? More likely your PS2 is causing the problem.

[meeno]

Are you using 16:9 tv? More likely your PS2 is causing the problem.

My TV is a regular 27 inch trinitron. No wide screen or anything like that.

Is this the problem or is it the PS2? I would think that the TV would make it have the huge bars and a smaller screen, like it usually does.

Thanks

[edDV]

Are you using 16:9 tv? More likely your PS2 is causing the problem.

My TV is a regular 27 inch trinitron. No wide screen or anything like that.

Is this the problem or is it the PS2? I would think that the TV would make it have the huge bars and a smaller screen, like it usually does.

Thanks

Try a normal DVD player and see if there is a difference. Otherwise its just the TV doing its thing.

[junkmalle]

Given a source that looks something like this:



Are you seeing this on your TV?:



or this?:



And which do you want to see?