Pan & Scan set up.

Posted by Allan [IP: 204.164.198.9] on December 31, 1998 at 15:38:10:

In Reply to: Pan & Scan set up. posted by Ryan on December 29, 1998 at 10:46:53:

Pan and scan mode on the DVD Player is used to unsquish an anamorphic DVD program by stretching out the sides. Most disks so far don't actually have panning and scanning encoded in which case all that happens is equal amounts of each side of the movie overscan off the screen sides.

Non-anamorphic wide screen movies have the black bars recorded on the disk and the only way to get rid of them is to "upsample" the middle 360 scan lines recorded on the disk to fit the 480 (for NTSC) scan line video frame of the TV and I don't think inexpensive DVD players do it for any DVD.

But all NTSC compliant DVD players have a mode to "downsample" an anamorphic DVD program which unsquishes it on a 4:3 TV by creating black bars and making everything smaller.

Pan and scan, or "expanded" mode on the TV Set (16:9 sets) is used to make a non-anamorphic letterboxed movie fill the screen. The entire picture is expanded so the black bars and also some side program material overscan off the screen.

I wasn't aware that some DVD's are encoded to prohibit mode selections on the DVD player from taking effect but if people say it is true, it must be true. I don't own a DVD player.

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