Moth3r said:
Chewtobacca said:
Mavimao said:
I just wanted to point out a quirk about the ESB DVD 5 despecialized version. So I guess this is for Chewtobacco... For some reason, the pan and scan flag is set for the disk. So if your DVD player happens to be on the P&S auto setting, it'll zoom in on the picture.
Thanks, but that's what supposed to happen if your player is set to pan and scan; it won't come in to play for anyone whose player is set to 16:9. I take it you have a 4:3 TV? Just set your player to 4:3 not 4:3 P&S. A number of commercial anamorphic widescreen discs have this setting.
Really? I've never seen a DVD that implements the 4:3 Pan & Scan option. A "centre of interest" offset is supposed to be encoded in the video stream, otherwise you just end up with the sides cropped and the scanned window stays centered (does not "pan").
It is much more common (and preferable, IMO) to author for only 4:3 letterboxed. Although the setting is pretty obsolete these days when most people have 16:9 TVs.
Yes, I have a 4:3 television for the record. My story: before I changed the video setting on my DVD player from NormalPS to NormalLB, every scope film played fine, even ROTJ DVD5 Despecialized. However, I'd recently downloaded ESB DVD5 and popped it in the player and it played back in what seemed like 1.66/1.85. I could tell that the image was zoomed in and the sides were cut off. I wondered what the problem was since this had never happened to me before with my other films, and the ESB disc played fine in my computer.
So I googled my issue and learned about the P&S flag for DVDs, changed the setting on my DVD player and ESB now works great!
In any case, it's so minor an issue, no one should lose any sleep over it. I thought it would be helpful to write about my experience in case anyone else runs into this problem and comes running to this forum looking for a solution (ie: change your dvd player video setting!)