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toot
10-11-2001, 10:59
are there any that can take a 4:3 picture and make it 'anamorphic' by adding black bars on the left and right? like how the BBC broadcast with digital.. this would be really useful for me cause my TV won't go to 4:3 mode with RGB for some reason :(
APPRIA40WR
10-11-2001, 16:10
No, of course not :)
goof
10-11-2001, 16:11
That was cruel Appria...you could have let him down gently :D
Bapapapa
10-11-2001, 16:12
toot - WTF, are you talking about?

Anamorphic 4:3 with side bars??

http://www.bapapapa.btinternet.co.uk/ambulance.gif
jason t
10-11-2001, 16:18
:eek: u guys just crack me up.......:D :D
toot
10-11-2001, 16:42
screw you guys!.. i'm going home :mad:

Bapapapa: yeah, anamorphic 4:3 with black bars at the side :brickwall: don't try to confuse me!
APPRIA40WR
10-11-2001, 17:07
...don't try to confuse me!

You're doing fine yourself! :D
Paul.B
10-11-2001, 17:25
May i present the award for 'Strangest thread of the day' :clap: :D
Hex
10-11-2001, 17:54
this would be really useful for me cause my TV won't go to 4:3 mode with RGB for some reason

Panasonic?

This would be quite useful, cause it annoys me as well, but the only 4:3 stuff I have is Buffy and Dilbert box sets so I can live with it.
toot
10-11-2001, 18:22
Originally posted by Hex
this would be really useful for me cause my TV won't go to 4:3 mode with RGB for some reason

Panasonic?

This would be quite useful, cause it annoys me as well, but the only 4:3 stuff I have is Buffy and Dilbert box sets so I can live with it.

Sharp.. i think some Sonys have the problem too.

i'm glad someone else understands, i was feeling so alone :(
AndyWilson
10-11-2001, 18:55
..one reason I use SVideo...
APPRIA40WR
10-11-2001, 23:01
S-video for me too. RGB's too bloody dark also.
Bamse
11-11-2001, 17:28
My Hitachi won’t go into 4:3 when I watch DVD’s in RGB either. Does anyone know why this is, as it seems to affect all brands of T.V’s. By the way, if I set my player to SVHS, it will auto-switch to 4:3 just fine, but RGB does give me a noticeably better picture.
Cable Monkey
12-11-2001, 08:33
This may be to do with default settings. My Phillips's default is 4:3 and being relatively cheap, this cannot be changed via hidden menus etc. Therefore (I watch DVD and ITVDigital in RGB) it is 4:3 unless told by the source to switch to another format. Consequently I don't have the problem described above.
Bamse
12-11-2001, 11:12
Originally posted by Cable Monkey
This may be to do with default settings. My Phillips's default is 4:3 and being relatively cheap, this cannot be changed via hidden menus etc. Therefore (I watch DVD and ITVDigital in RGB) it is 4:3 unless told by the source to switch to another format. Consequently I don't have the problem described above.

Yes but when I watch 4:3 films in RGB in my TV, the picture is always stretched to fill the screen, no matter what picture format I pick.
Frustin
12-11-2001, 15:01
do you mean 14:9 ( i think thats the aspect ratio i am talking about, i'll check tonight)? that has black bars at the side of it, and at the top, and is also the format that BBC etc broadcasts their widescreen films at.
jon smith
12-11-2001, 15:53
I think Toot is using 'anamorphic' to mean widescreen.

My TV will always put an RGB image in widescreen.

Some digital channels broadcast 4:3 as a 16:9 image (Carlton Cinema and some of the BBC channels so they have black bars, or colour bars for sport usually). This keeps the picture in the right ratio (4:3) even though it is technically a 16:9 picture (cos the bars are part of the transmission).

On DVD, I put on Buffy but can't watch it in 4:3 through RGB. I have to put it back in composite. So, wouldn't it be nice if the dvd could put the picture as a 4:3 image within a 16:9 'transmission' so black bars at the side were treated as part of the picture.
Bamse
12-11-2001, 16:18
Originally posted by jon smith
I think Toot is using 'anamorphic' to mean widescreen.

My TV will always put an RGB image in widescreen.

Some digital channels broadcast 4:3 as a 16:9 image (Carlton Cinema and some of the BBC channels so they have black bars, or colour bars for sport usually). This keeps the picture in the right ratio (4:3) even though it is technically a 16:9 picture (cos the bars are part of the transmission).

On DVD, I put on Buffy but can't watch it in 4:3 through RGB. I have to put it back in composite. So, wouldn't it be nice if the dvd could put the picture as a 4:3 image within a 16:9 'transmission' so black bars at the side were treated as part of the picture.

Yes, this is exactly the problem I have. If I want to watch Buffy I have to change my DVD setting to SVHS, to watch it in 4:3 and not stretched. The problem is, my player is plugged into Scart 1 RGB, but to get SVHS, I have to change it to Scart 2. This is a bit of a hassle, seeing as I don't have very many 4:3 discs. I must admit, I hadn't thought of switching to composite, I think that would work through Scart 1,so I wouldn't need to switch the cable. Composite's not the best picture quality format to watch 4:3 discs in though, especially as these disc's are normally T.V programs and badly encoded in the first place.
Bapapapa
12-11-2001, 16:23
You guys must have sh!te TVs.

My daughter is currently watching Dumbo, so I've just set the TV to 4:3 mode and it seems fine. Connected thru RGB as well.