Philips 30PW8502 Widescreen TV Help Plz

[jvbruggy]

My tv set which is a 30PW8502/37 Philips Widescreen TV, doesn't get its screen filled whenever im playing widescreen content (DVD's), i know there is different kind of widescreen ratios and such but there hasnt been a widescreen movie yet that has filled my TV's screen ( i still see black bars on top and bottom, the superwide mode which my tv has helps a little but the black bars are still about half an inch to an inch wide. Im also wondering if other people are having this problem too, by the way, my dvd player is an OPPO OPDV971H, and i have it set to widescreen.

If you guys know of any movies that are confirmed to fill a 16:9 Widescreen TV let me know of some so i can try them out.

Plz make the black bars dissappear plz

[jvbruggy]

18 views no replies, i know someone on here can give me a good answer to my problem =\

[Baldrick]

2.35:1 movies will have black borders, many movies are in this format. check the back of the dvd box.

1.85:1 and 1.77:1 should not have any borders.

[jvbruggy]

2.35:1 movies will have black borders, many movies are in this format. check the back of the dvd box.

1.85:1 and 1.77:1 should not have any borders.

ok, ive tried toy story 2 special edition which is widescreen 1.77:1, it indeed did fill my widescreen 16x9 screen, but what gots me confused is that it also filled my 4:3 27 inch TV. It filled it up without distorting the picture either, no zoom was involved, i really didnt test out if i was missing part of the left and right sides of the screen, but it looked pretty good to me

[wimpio]

use the zoom functie on the DVD player

change output on the DVDplayer 4;3 or 16;9

use the superzoom on the tv

[jvbruggy]

use the zoom functie on the DVD player

change output on the DVDplayer 4;3 or 16;9

use the superzoom on the tv

the dvd player on my widescreen tv which is an oppo is set to widescreen, and my widescreen tv is set to widescreen, the 1.77:1 toy story 2 fills up the screen

the dvd player on my 4:3 27 inch tv is set to 4:3 and it has no zoom in features or aspect ratio features, and the same 1.77:1 toy story 2 fills it up wit no bars on top or bottom

[jagabo]

the dvd player on my 4:3 27 inch tv is set to 4:3 and it has no zoom in features or aspect ratio features, and the same 1.77:1 toy story 2 fills it up wit no bars on top or bottom

Compare scenes side-by-side. I'm sure you'll find that the 4:3 TV is showing a pan-and-scan picture -- ie, the sides of the image are cropped.

[jvbruggy]

ill check that out, ill also check it on a non-sony 4:3, both tvs ive tried it on so far have been 96 and 97 sony trinitron tv's, maybe they both crop that kind of ratio automatically, i dont know

[jagabo]

ill check that out, ill also check it on a non-sony 4:3, both tvs ive tried it on so far have been 96 and 97 sony trinitron tv's, maybe they both crop that kind of ratio automatically, i dont know

It's not the TVs. It's the 4:3 setting on the DVD player.

[jvbruggy]

ok i have confirmed that it is indeed the settings of the dvd players, but i did do a comparison with my oppo dvd player and my ps2, oppo automatically makes fullscreen movies fill the screen unless you have it on the widescreen/sqz setting. but when i put the same fullscreen movie on my ps2 it also filled up my screen so i guess the ps2 automatically fills up widescreen tvs when u play 4:3 content off of it.

my other little discovery was that when u put a 4:3 tv's dvd player setting to 16:9 and watch a 1.77:1 widescreen movie on it it fills the screen.

if anyone can confirm this plz let me know, thanks for the help guys

[guns1inger]

Generally, if your 4:3 TV understands 16:9 (i.e. it has switching capabilities) then a 1.77 AR DVD will have black bars top and bottom in 16:9 mode. In 16:9 letterbox mode it will still have black bars, but it won't be in 16:9 mode, just 4:3 with matted letterbox image. In 4:3 mode it might be P&S or it might still be letterboxed - depends on the disk and the player.

If your 4:3 does not understand 16:9 mode then it will display the image stretched vertically - which will fill the screen, but be distorted. Anything with a larger AR - 1.85 onwards - will have some amount of black in 16:9 mode, even if it is stretched.

On a widescreen TV, anything 1.85 or greater will have bars in 16:9 mode if no zoom is used. This is how it is meant to be. Read this for all the things the people who sold you your widescreen TV should have told you -> http://widescreen.org/widescreen_tv_qa.shtml