action safe area very small on presentation TV

[Hope Holmesby]

Hi Dave….

Thank you for this….I lived in Iowa for 6 yrs….Fairfield.
You have helped me before, thank u for this again.

Ok, well that is VERY good to know.

720×576 @ 25fps : so this size is 5.4 ratio, whereas the one i made was 16.9

and according to this schematic, if it is accurate:

The only area that was seen, I am pretty sure, is the gold 4.3 Action Safe area.

So if I do want the widescreen proportions, for a normal DVD, which you are indicating is 5.4, then one has to letterbox the 16.9 in that 5.4 space? Or redo the movie to be 5.4.

In Toast, an old version, i burned a ‘video dvd’ and formated it nicely w one button, to make it simple to play at this presentation.

Standard digital, is partly what I had done – smile- …but it is ‘widescreen’ SD : 1024×576 @25fps (Pal)

So you are saying, I guess, in terminology I am used to, that DVDs don’t show / play widescreen by default?

Our in house DVD player, one can, if going into the settings, change the settings to 16.9. and the TV too. But it is not simple to do. One has to call up the menus in both and go there and change.

What do you think?
Thanks so much, again.

Warmly,
Hope

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[Hope Holmesby]

Hi Dave….

Thank you for this….what a kind and good person!
Ok, so a month later I respond…..wow…just so you know I have been thinking I need to get back to you. It is been in the back of my mind all this time.
What you said has really helped.

Everything worked out really well after this thread.
Thank you!

[Dave LaRonde] “Hope you liked Fairfield — It reminds me a lot of Mount Pleasant, one of my favorite towns. Fairfield has a really pretty town square, and the area around it is nifty, too. Good places to eat — there’s a cafe in the area that has a great tenderloin, and I’m a sucker for a good tenderloin. Maharishi U…. well, it’s interesting, too.”

Yes, completely charming, I agree. I am from LA originally, so it was quite a change. They say the place has more restaurants per capita than San Francisco. hee hee

Have taken some classes at the Maharishi university…lol. Am a TMer from way back…smile…

Question, if you dont mind:
1. DVD Burning: will burning a movie: a square pixeled Photo Jpeg 1024×576 be the same viewing from the dvd as the 720×576 anamorphic mpeg2?

2. why mpeg2 for dvd? Does it really matter what codec, or the dvd turns movies into mpeg2, so why not just add in that format?

3. Toast or other burning options compresses the videos so no longer clear. Yes?

DVD player:
-I realized the DVD player was set to SD, so changed the settings to 16.9 in the set up options of the player. (but who else, when playing the dvd would do that?

-Most dvd players are set to 4.3 whatever it is called? and NOT 16.9, yes?

What do you think?
Warmly,
Hope

btw, did you have a nice Halloween….hee hee

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