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Video Setup
TV Type
This menu contains the options for selecting the TV norm, which must be set to
match your monitor or television screen.
PAL
Select this setting if the picture output is to be reproduced on a
PAL
TV set. At
this setting, DVDs in
NTSC
format will be converted to the PAL format by the
.
Multi
At this setting the
carries out no format conversion. The output from
PAL DVDs is reproduced as PAL, NTSC DVDs as NTSC.
This setting should only be selected if your television set is a multi-norm type,
i.e. one which automatically switches between PAL and NTSC modes.
NTSC
Select this setting if the picture output is to be reproduced on an NTSC
television. At this setting, DVDs in PAL format will be converted to the NTSC
format by the
.
TV Display
In this menu you set the picture output of the
to match the geometry of
your TV set.
Note:
The format which you select must be available on the disc. If this is not the
case, the selected picture format settings will have no effect on the picture
during playback.
4:3 Pan Scan
This produces a picture of full screen height; if a wide-screen film is played, the
centre of the picture fills the screen of a 4:3 TV set. Less important areas of the
picture are cropped.
Pan Scan is only supported by a few DVDs.
4:3 Letterbox
This option produces a ”wide-screen” reproduction with black bars at the top
and bottom of the picture. In this setting the entire picture content of the DVD is
reproduced.
We recommend this setting for use with 4:3 televisions.
16:9 (
wide screen
)
For reproduction on a wide-screen television (16 : 9 format).
