I hadn't used if for a while but I wanted to evaluate my new Pany 210 blu-ray player for SD playback. I set the player to output 16:9 but the content was shown as 4:3 and obviously squeezed from the sides (distorted). As a double check, I put it in my PS3 and it showed the same result. When I set the player(s) to output 4:3 it seems to be displayed properly. A quick search on DVDtalk.com seems to indicate that the disc is authored as 4:3. http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/30032...hqv-benchmark/
It seems silly but it looks like it should be played at 4:3 because when I do, it plays it as though it was 16:9.
Just wanted to confirm that I was approaching this correctly.
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On the Standard Definition disc, all of the introduction and explanatory material is provided in 4:3 video. In fact, the entire disc is flagged as 4:3, despite the fact that many of the test patterns should actually be viewed in 16:9 widescreen. This is problematic on many upscaling DVD players that will automatically pillarbox 4:3 content into the center of a 16:9 TV, in that case leaving no way to view the patterns in their original widescreen aspect ratio, negatively affecting the results on some of them. Fortunately, this shouldn't be a problem on all DVD players. The audio is Dolby Digital 2.0 in a simple stereo mix. There's a small amount of music and narration, and it sounds fine, but this simply isn't an audio test program.
On the Standard Definition disc, all of the introduction and explanatory material is provided in 4:3 video. In fact, the entire disc is flagged as 4:3, despite the fact that many of the test patterns should actually be viewed in 16:9 widescreen. This is problematic on many upscaling DVD players that will automatically pillarbox 4:3 content into the center of a 16:9 TV, in that case leaving no way to view the patterns in their original widescreen aspect ratio, negatively affecting the results on some of them. Fortunately, this shouldn't be a problem on all DVD players. The audio is Dolby Digital 2.0 in a simple stereo mix. There's a small amount of music and narration, and it sounds fine, but this simply isn't an audio test program.
It seems silly but it looks like it should be played at 4:3 because when I do, it plays it as though it was 16:9.
Just wanted to confirm that I was approaching this correctly.
