PHILIPS 963SA picture problem

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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 voilÃ¡! 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

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Topic - PHILIPS 963SA picture problem - Joaquin 09:05:45 10/07/03 (3)

Try setting the DVD to wide broadcast 16:9 and see what happens - SoundMike 07:03:34 10/10/03 (1)

Re: Try setting the DVD to wide broadcast 16:9 and see what happens - Joaquin 11:43:34 10/16/03 (0)

Re: PHILIPS 963SA picture problem - charliecossie 00:14:15 10/08/03 (0)

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