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MrSafety
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I treated myself to a VPL-HS1 for Xmas - got it for an absolute steal as well if anyone else wants one! - and am having tremendous fun with it. Problem is I am new to the whole DVD thing and I seem to have spent my entire time since Boxing Day checking out DVD info sites, forums, etc trying to understand about anamorphic, aspects, S-video,screendoor effect,...
Blimey, the more I know the less I know!
Basically I have three questions (for now anyway!):
1. I think I understand how the 16:9 aspect differs from 4:3 and anamorphic etc and when I play a DVD with my DVD player setup to send to a 16:9 TV and my HS1 setup in 16:9 mode, all is groovy. However, last night I was watching a 2.35:1 movie and noticed that I was missing some of the edges of the picture. How do I get this to be displayed so that I see all of it? I tried setting the DVD player to output 4:3 letterbox and this did the trick - was this right or is there another/better way to do this?
2. The DVD player is hooked up to my HS1 using the composite multipin lead which came with it. Is this ok? Would S-video to S-video be any better (or any other alternative for that matter)?
3. I am throwing the HS1 image onto a wall rather than a screen. Since I (i) have an LCD image (ii) am clearly a jobbing-amateur with no real appreciation of the finer detail about video (iii) a bit broke at this point, to be frank. Is it worthwhile buying a screen or would I not really appreciate the difference? Sony do a portable jobbie (VPS-HS60E) which I could probably stretch to but the image size I am already starting to get used to is probably bigger than this screen can handle.
Oh, why am I never satisfied...
Thanks very much for any help/advice any of you more enlightened souls can send my way
cheers
MrSafety
Blimey, the more I know the less I know!
Basically I have three questions (for now anyway!):
1. I think I understand how the 16:9 aspect differs from 4:3 and anamorphic etc and when I play a DVD with my DVD player setup to send to a 16:9 TV and my HS1 setup in 16:9 mode, all is groovy. However, last night I was watching a 2.35:1 movie and noticed that I was missing some of the edges of the picture. How do I get this to be displayed so that I see all of it? I tried setting the DVD player to output 4:3 letterbox and this did the trick - was this right or is there another/better way to do this?
2. The DVD player is hooked up to my HS1 using the composite multipin lead which came with it. Is this ok? Would S-video to S-video be any better (or any other alternative for that matter)?
3. I am throwing the HS1 image onto a wall rather than a screen. Since I (i) have an LCD image (ii) am clearly a jobbing-amateur with no real appreciation of the finer detail about video (iii) a bit broke at this point, to be frank. Is it worthwhile buying a screen or would I not really appreciate the difference? Sony do a portable jobbie (VPS-HS60E) which I could probably stretch to but the image size I am already starting to get used to is probably bigger than this screen can handle.
Oh, why am I never satisfied...
Thanks very much for any help/advice any of you more enlightened souls can send my way
cheers
MrSafety