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DVD Menu System
3. Since
TV Aspect
is the fi rst submenu, it’s already highlighted. Use the arrow buttons to highlight
your choice (the options are explained below), and press OK to select.
4. To return to the previous menu, press the left arrow button if necessary.
16 : 9 Wide (Widescreen)
– Choose this setting if your DVD
player is connected to a widescreen TV. If you choose this
setting and you don’t have a widescreen TV, the images
on the screen might appear distorted due to vertical
compression. If you play a disc recorded in 4 x 3 format on
a widescreen TV, the left and right sides of the screen will
appear black.
4 : 3 (Standard)
– Choose this setting if you want the
movie to fi ll the entire screen of your TV. This might mean
that parts of the picture (the left and right edges) won’t
be seen. Most discs produced in a widescreen format can’t
be cropped in this fashion. This means the black bars will
appear at the top and the bottom of the screen.
Display Mode
Display Mode offers 2 additional 4:3 aspect ratio settings,
Letterbox
and
Panscan
. These settings are
only in effect when the
TV Aspect
is set to 4:3.
1. Make sure no disc is playing by pressing STOP, then press MENU (the Main Menu appears).
2. Use the up and down arrow buttons to highlight the
Display
menu icon, then press the right arrow
button to highlight the menu options.
3. Use the up and down arrow buttons to highlight
Display Mode.
4
.
Use the arrow buttons to highlight your choice (the options are explained below), and press OK to
select.
5. To return to the previous menu, press the left arrow button if necessary.
Letterbox — Choose this setting if you want to see movies in
their original aspect ratio (height-to-width ratio). You’ll see
the entire frame of the movie, but it will take up a smaller
portion of the screen vertically. The movie might appear
with black bars at the top and bottom of the screen.
Panscan
– Choose this setting if you want the movie to fi ll
the entire screen of your TV. (same as 4:3 aspect ratio above)
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