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16×9 or 4×3??
I am burning a DVD and I was wondering do all tv display 16×9? Or should i always stick to 4:3? Also what if i have footage in 4:3 and 16:9?
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It’s not up to the TV it’s up to the DVD player.
But yes a DVD player should play a 16:9 DVD on a 4:3 TV. It will just letterbox it and put black bars on the top and bottom of the screen.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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Thank you so much! I have an m2v file that is 4:3 and in dvd studio pro it looks weird because the rest of my footage is 16:9 should i just re compress it in compressor?
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This actually brings up a more complex problem i have a gripe about. When burning 16×9 footage in toast or DVDSP, it plays back great on a widescreen TV (provided the DVD and Tv are set properly) and computer monitor adjusts ratios automatically quite nicely.
But MOST (non widescreen) TV’s/DVD players from what i’ve experienced will NOT letterbox the image, it simply cuts off the edges and gives you a wrongly matted image. The only way to letterbox a 16×9 image is (to my knowledge) re-scaling and exporting the original image file in a non widescreen project setting, which sometimes doesn’t work with smooth results
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