hi there, I have a lg lda-511 dvd player and a sony kd-36xs955 (4:3). Couple of questions. First what is macrovision? Second I was using the dvd to upconvert to 1080 I which is the native resolution of my tv. On 16:9 movies every worked ok, but recently I discovered movies that are 2.35 to 1 get squashed too much vertically. The only solution I found was to set the dvd to either 480i or 480p and let the tv do the upcoverting. Why is this? By the way im using component cables for now and this player does up convert through component also. Tany answers would be appreciated. Thanks.

Macrovision is a company that licenses copy protection schemes to manufacturers.
All DVD's have a flag that tells the player to turn on macrovision circuitry built into the DVD player. This circuit outputs a signal that confuses many video tape recorders, and you end up with a recording that is shaky, scrambled and loses sync. Some DVD's also have their data stored with some proprietary data structure (developed by Macrovision) which confuses some PC ripping programs, but will still play properly in most DVD players.

I'm not sure why your upconvert isn't displaying ok. If it works for 16:9 movies, it should work the same for 2.35:1 movies. Are you sure it's squashed, 2.35 movies on a 4:3 set look very short in general.

yeah its too squashed, it changes size switching from dvd or tv up converting. I measured it . The shorter screen is not right so then I dont upconvert on the dvd and let the tv do it. By the way I just discovered the rempte hacks for my dvd player, I was going to turn macrovision off, but i dont what hdcp, edid are or if i should change the region codes to all.