PS2 DVD's all full screen!

[Philip Lawrence]

I have a standard 4:3 TV, with my PS2 connected via the AV cable. Despite
the fact that I have selected 4:3 in the main setup options, every DVD I
play comes up "squeezed" full screen. If I go into the DVD options, the TV
is set at 16:9 and no other options are available.

Any ideas?
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[Brian Lewis]

You answer your own question. You have to set the TV options to 4:3. If you
had a 16:9 TV, you would choose the option you have chosen.

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[JLenn]

You need to make sure that the DVD is not playing in order to change the TV
setting in the DVD options menu. Just press O when the DVD is playing then
go back to the setup menu and you will be able to pick 4:3 Pan/Scan, 4:3
Letterbox or 16:9.

Hope this helps!

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[Philip Lawrence]

Yep, that got it! Thanks a lot for the help.

Philip.

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[Joe62]

"Brian Lewis" <ble...@shaftlube.com> wrote:

>You answer your own question. You have to set the TV options to 4:3. If you
>had a 16:9 TV, you would choose the option you have chosen.

It doesn't seem to work though. There's no fullscreen option.
Basically the PS2 drivers seem to lack a zoom option, so you can't
play a widescreen movie in fullscreen.

Joe

[Samuel A. Maffei]

Umm, no. The full screen option (on the fly
pan and scan conversion is more precise) must
be coded into the DVD. The PS2 is behaving
the way set-top DVD players do. If the disc,
doesn't support on-the-fly pan and scan, it
won't play a widscreen movie as full frame.

So far, even though it is in the DVD Spec.,
I have yet to see a DVD movie / entertainment
disc that supports this feature (and I've
been buying them for almost 4 years).

I think it really is a cost thing. Since
there is no huge outcry for this feature on
DVDs (heck, I think most people don't realize
it exists), the studios aren't supporting
it.

Hope this helps.

Sam

[Ringo]

U-571 has got it - anamorphic

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[Connor]

You're buying Widescreen editions of DVDs. You can't force these DVDs to
Pan and Scan (nor would you want to, anyway, imo).

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[Kim Tommy]

OK, tell me where I could get some 4:3 screen DVDs then?? You are completly
wrong. I've tried several DVD players, and they all "resize" the DVD
according to the TV.

My brother just bought a PS2 and all my DVDs turn up "stretched" vertically.
They have all worked normally on the same TV with my DVD player.

If you are right, that the PS2 can't "resize" the picture, sony has made a
BIG mistake. They cant expect everyone to buy a widescreen TV??

Kim

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[Wohali Agigage]

It has npthign to do with the TV nor PS2. If the disk is Widesreen only, it
will be wide screen only. If it is both you can select it in the menu. It
depends on the disk itself.
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[Magnor Humborstad]

Nope, this is not correct. Most DVD's are widescreen only, but if you`re
watching on a normal 4/3 TV the DVD player is supposed to correct this so
that one can see a "normal" 16:9 picture (but with black margins in the
upper and lower portions of the screen). If you look in the Playstation2
manual it says that you have to select what kind of TV you have. (Actually
the PS2 can even cut the sides of the DVD display in order to show a full
image on a 4/3 TV. (but who wants that?), but can as said also "put in"
margins on upper and lower portions of the screen).

But my brothers PS2 won`t corrct this so it "squeezes" the picture into the
4/3 display because it thinks that it is a 16:9 TV, meaning that everything
looks really thin. I`ve tried the same DVDs on my DVD player and there they
are normal(on the same TV). If the PS2 can`t do this I think it should not
be presented as an adequate DVD player!

SO, the question is anybody out there has managed to do as described in the
manual, watch a widescreen DVD normal on a 4:3 TV, or if the PS2 can't do
this?

Kim

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[Scott Jones]

The PS2 thinks you have a 16:9 TV and is stretching the anamorphic
picture to take up the full screen. Please change the setting in the
menu to 4:3 and your picture will be fine. And remember you must stop
the movie in order to change the setting.

Scott

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[Rod Savard]

> But my brothers PS2 won`t corrct this so it "squeezes" the picture into
the
> 4/3 display because it thinks that it is a 16:9 TV

The PS2 isn't squeezing the picture horizontally, it's leaving it vertically
uncompressed. Anamorphic widescreen DVDs are left vertically uncompressed
to enhance the quality of the picture on 16:9 displays. Since 99.9% of the
TVs in the US are 4:3, you need to ensure your PS2 knows you have a 4:3
display. This will tell the DVD player to vertically compress anamorphic
widescreen DVDs... basically putting the black bars in at the top and
bottom. Non-anamorphic widescreen DVDs will always have the black bars.

--
Rod Savard - Delphi Developer
Savard Software - Tri-Cities, Washington, USA

[Rod Savard]

> The PS2 thinks you have a 16:9 TV and is stretching the anamorphic

A little nit-picking but the DVD never stretches an anamorphic image... it's
leaving it at the native resolution on the DVD. When you configure the DVD
player for a 4:3 TV, it COMPRESSES the anamorphic image.