Re: the mishmash of 4:3 and 16:9
- From: "Curious" <curious@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:43:49 -0700
MCE NTSC tuners only receive programs in NTSC standard 4:3 aspect ratio 480i
resolution whether received by tuner or by S-video (The program could be
received in 4:3 LB format and the tuner does not even know it). It then
encodes and records them in standard NTSC DVD format which is 720x480i.
Programs received with ATSC (HDTV) are already encoded so they are recorded
exactly as received regardless of resolution.
You can think of the NTSC tuner as working exactly like a SD 4:3 TV does
when it receives an antenna, cable or S-video input and does no scaling, or
zooming of any kind.
Any changes to these standard 4:3 video images are being done by MCE or your
burning software at your request at playback time and are not part of what
is recorded.
"tonj" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Omz2jEwkFHA.1412@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> If I'm not mistaken, when WinMCE (2005) records a program it records it in
> the format it is trasmitted, it doesn't record it at the zoom level you
> may
> have chosen to view it. The vast majority of TV programmes nowdays is
> 16:9.
> This presents me with a problem as I have a 4:3 TV. Using the zoom
> function
> in MCE while I'm viewing a program enables me to toggle between 4:3PS and
> 4:3LB and get a true picture. I am using Nero VisionEXpress v3.1.0.0 to
> rip
> the MCE .dvr-ms recordings to DVD. The problem is the DVD's are burnt at
> 4:3, so the resultant image is tall and stretched (north/south) when
> played
> on a normal DVD player and viewed on a 4:3 TV screen. Also, DVD's ripped
> using Nero VE do not respond to screen format changes. I first thought my
> DVD player might be faulty because it couldn't change the screen format,
> but
> when I played the same ripped DVD in Windows MCE I couldn't change the
> screen format in that either. I also tried to play the same DVD in WinDVD
> and that wouldn't accept a screen format change. So it seems that NeroVE
> doesn't include that'ingredient' when it rips DVD's.
> I've looked around in Windows MCE and can't find anywhere where you can
> force the recording at a particular format. It will only record the format
> that comes down the wire. And in NeroVE there seems to be no way one can
> force a screen format change with the rip. And in the Nero Video Options
> one
> can choose either 4:3 or 16:9 but this makes no difference to the format
> burnt. So do I need to find a different ripper? Is there one that will
> change the viewing format when ripping from .dvr-ms to DVD?
> Thanks for any help.
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