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Hello,I recently bought this dvd-sacd player. Well, picture quality is great as expected (I use a PAL interlaced TV set; I think it is some sort of Telefunken or Grundig clon). My TV set is good old standard 4:3, and I have set the dvd as "4:3 letterbox". Well, I have an annoying problem with 4:3 discs. The picture is squeezed and quite big horizontal bars appear up and below it! It is not just a reduction of the picture, more a squeezing (people looks fat and small; it is as if somebody has compressed the picture as an acordeon). I was about to return back the dvd as defective, when just by chance I pushed the tele-text mode button on my TV remote, and voilá! the squeezing dissapears, the picture fills the full screen and proportions are perfect. In tele-text mode I can defeat the tele-text messages and numbers, so in the end I have a perfect clean and proportionate dvd picture. If I go back to "TV" mode, the picture gets squeezed again, but obviously there is no need to go to that mode.
I can see 16:9 discs with no "squeezing" problem in "TV" mode.
Please forgive my ignorance, as this is my first dvd-player. Had anybody enconuntered this problem before? I guess the problem is in my TV, not in my dvd? Or is this an strange case of incompatibility?
Thanks,
Joaquin
Follow Ups:
...Or maybe the TV has wide mode wich conflict with the letterboxed material.
But my TV is 4:3 (5 years old), and it does not allow to change 4:3 or 16:9 mode... If I set the dvd to 16:9, the picture is shrinked (but proportions seem allright). Interestingly, if I activate the videotext, I got a full picture enlarged up and down (people is tall and thin).With the dvd in 4:3 mode, 16:9 films are seend as they must be: perfect proportions, black horizontal bars. But 4:3 material is shrinked (distorted) and undue horizontal bars appear. As I can de-activate this "shrinking" effect (getting full picture) activating the videotext OR passing the signal through my Panasonic VCR before going to the TV, I think it´s a "problem" I can live with it, but I simply don´t understand why it is there.
I have talked to this to Philips Consumer Service here in Spain, and with the technical department of technikdirekt.de (the e-tailer where I have bought the dvd), and both tell me the problem is in my TV. The guy from technikdirekt tells me old TV sets do not make differences between 4:3 and 16:9, and this dvd native mode is 16:9 (at least that is what I understood). He repeated me the answer 2 times through the phone, and I simply gave up, not understanding what he meant (he was not very friendly).
Thanks in any case,
Joaquin
RTFM
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