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setting a technics dvd player to output widescreen?

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Old 31-10-2005, 9:38 PM   #1
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Question setting a technics dvd player to output widescreen?

i have a technics combined system that includes dvd player and i play it through a phillips 32 widescreen tv using a s-video din to scart adapter. i have set dvd to output as 16:9 but when watching goodfellas last night the aspect looked wrong and as i use the svideo ch on tv it does not say it is getting a widescreen signal!! the dvd says widescreen 1.85:1. It looked ok in 4:3 format but I bought it for widescreen!! is there anything i should be doing with the settings on dvd or tv??

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Old 01-11-2005, 12:20 AM   #2
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i have a technics combined system that includes dvd player and i play it through a phillips 32 widescreen tv using a s-video din to scart adapter. i have set dvd to output as 16:9 but when watching goodfellas last night the aspect looked wrong and as i use the svideo ch on tv it does not say it is getting a widescreen signal!! the dvd says widescreen 1.85:1. It looked ok in 4:3 format but I bought it for widescreen!! is there anything i should be doing with the settings on dvd or tv??

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You will have to manually switch your Philips TV to "widescreen" as the s-video output from your DVD player does not carry the widescreen switching signal.
If your Technics DVD had a scart output it would switch automatically.
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Old 01-11-2005, 11:07 PM   #3
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thanks for reply. i tested a few other dvd's and they do switch automatically but the goodfellas dvd does not. i can live with it for now. i thought it was fixable.

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