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Samsung 950 and Z2 - bigger 720p picture?

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Old 29-10-2005, 4:23 PM   #1
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Samsung 950 and Z2 - bigger 720p picture?

Anyone using a 950 with a Z2?

Samsung 950 connected to Z2 with HDMI to DVI. resolution set at 720p but gives 4:3 picture. I don't know why. Maybe I've got a setting wrong.
1080i gives normal widescreen. I didn't have this problem my old 935.

Anyone come across this??
(p.s Gave up on trying to get 1920(MS) to work on Z2)

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Old 30-10-2005, 9:22 AM   #2
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Not sure if it's the same as on my 745 with DVI to Z2, but I have to set the widescreen option, and if it's a PAL title, press the 'screen' button on the top left of the remote to get the picture to expand, as it appears compressed vertically at first.

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Well I was using a sumsung 935 before and 720p was in right proportion but had to be zoomed in on the projector.
With the 950 the picture appears to be in the 4:3 ratio and therefore cannot be zoomed in. I've set it on widescreen on the DVD players display.
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Old 31-10-2005, 7:01 PM   #5
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asked samsung to look into it today. Should take 3-4 days
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I just pressed 'screen' button to 'full' on the Z2 and the 720p picture filled the whole screen. Problem solved? so simply? maybe I was just being simple myself and not figuring this out earlier.
But why was 1080i coming full screen and not 720p?
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