[sagarmatha]

Hi AE-100 owners,



I am using an iDVD (SONY D-360, I know it is not a great DVD player but that's what I have for now) connected to VB50 through S-Video, and the VB50 connected to AT-100 through VGA/RGB. My screen size is 77"x43" (DIY screen). When I watch 4:3 material, I get the aspect ratio right. I mean the image fills the hight of the screen and I get grey bars on the sides. But when I watch 16:9 materials (for example Shrek widescreen dvd wich is 1.78:1), the image look horizontally stretched to fill the width of the screen, and the actual ratio of the image that I get on the screen is about 2.26:1!! (The image in this case is 77"x34"). The funny thing is that the starting scene where you select "Play" or "Audio Setup" or "Scene Selection" etc looks perfect -- it fills the whole screen. But as soon as I Play the movie, it only fills the screen horizontally and leaves grey bars at the top and bottom of the image! Shouldn't the movie alos fill the whole screen? Am I doing something wrong? Is it because of the relatively older generation iDVD player that I am using? Please help!


My other settings:

VB50 Resolution set at 852x480.

AE-100 PC Priority set at WIDE.


Thanks.


-- Sagarmathat

 

[z.mash]

Hi sagarmatha-


You may need to manually set the output of your DVD player to 16:9. That could certainly account for the the image appearing to be stretched out. I am not familiar with that particular player, but my Apex and Panasonic both have a setting under the service menus.


-Zak

 

[sagarmatha]

Thanks Zak, I was able to fix that problem through the DVD player's menu.


Thanks again.


-- Sagarmatha