Do I need a Widescreen TV to play 16:9 movies?
A DVD-player can be connected to any television, but with a Widescreen TV you will get the most out of it. With DVD-Video you can gradually build up your own Home Cinema system with Widescreen TV and multichannel digital surround sound. DVD-Video supports multiple aspect ratios. Video stored on a DVD in 16:9 format is horizontally squeezed to a 4:3 (standard TV) ratio. On Wide-screen TVs, the squeezed image is enlarged by the TV to an aspect ratio of 16:9. DVD video players output widescreen video in three different ways: letterbox (for 4:3 screens) pan & scan (for 4:3 screens) anamorphic or unchanged (for wide screens) In widescreen or letterbox mode if a movie is wider than 16:9 (and most are), additional thin black bars will be added to the top and bottom at production time or the sides will be cropped. Video stored in 4:3 format is not changed by the player. It will appear normally on a 4:3 screen. Widescreen systems will either stretch it horizontally or add black bars to the side
A DVD-player can be connected to any television, but with a Widescreen TV you will get the most viewing enjoyment. With DVD-Video you can gradually build up your own Home Cinema system with widescreen TV and multichannel digital surround sound. DVD-Video supports multiple aspect ratios. Video stored on a DVD in 16:9 format is horizontally squeezed to a 4:3 (standard TV) ratio. On Wide-screen TVs, the squeezed image is enlarged by the TV to an aspect ratio of 16:9. DVD video players output widescreen video in three different ways: • Letterbox (for 4:3 screens) • Pan & scan (for 4:3 screens) • Anamorphic or unchanged (for wide screens) In widescreen or letterbox mode, if a movie is wider than 16:9 (and most are), additional thin black bars will be added to the top and bottom at production time or the sides will be cropped. Video stored in 4:3 format is not changed by the player. It will appear normally on a 4:3 screen. Widescreen systems will either stretch it horizontally or add black b
