The Menu System
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chapter 4
The Display Menu
The Display menu contains the settings that affect how a disc’s content looks on your TV and
the brightness of the display that’s on the front of the DVD Player.
TV Image
The TV Image menu adjusts the way a movie appears
on your TV. Standard TVs are 4 x 3 format. Depending
on the type of television you have, you may want to
adjust the screen setting (also called the aspect ratio).
1. With the player on (no disc playing), press MENU
(the main menu appears).
2. Use the up/down arrow buttons to highlight
Display
. Press the OK button (the
Display
choices
appear).
3.
TV Image
is already highlighted. Press the OK
button (the
TV Image
options appear).
4. Use the up/down arrow buttons to highlight your
choice (the options are explained below), and press
OK to select.
4 x 3 Pan & Scan
– Choose this setting if you
want the movie to fill 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.
4 x 3 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.
16 x 9
– Choose this setting if your DVD
Player is connected to a widescreen TV. If
you choose this settng 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 side of the screen will appear black.
4 x 3 Pan & Scan format.
4 x 3 Letterbox format.
16 x 9 format.
