Hi,
I've just got a new Sony BDP-S6200 bluray player and I'm having problems getting movies to fill the whole screen i.e. I hate black bars at the top and bottom. I know 'zooming' will result in the sides being cropped - I don't care.
Looking at the options and the manual it seems the bluray player 'pan and scan' is what I want but it doesn't seem to do anything - I still see the bars top and bottom, what am I missing ?
My TV is a Samsung plasma 65" (can't remember the model number at the moment) this has useless settings for zoom AFAICT, I can zoom / stretch the picture vertically but not horizontally - I can't watch movies where everyone looks tall and thin either.
I can remember an old Panasonic bluray player having a zoom where I could finely step the zoom up until I was happy with the size of the picture i.e. being able to adjust the size to balance between loss of the sides and height.
I'm passing the HDMI via a Marantz NR1601 AV amp - this can't be messing with the aspect ratio - can it ?
What other options do I have - any suggestions on another bluray player that has a working zoom / fill my screen option, any additional HDMI box I can add inline to give me this functionality ?
I've just got a new Sony BDP-S6200 bluray player and I'm having problems getting movies to fill the whole screen i.e. I hate black bars at the top and bottom. I know 'zooming' will result in the sides being cropped - I don't care.
Looking at the options and the manual it seems the bluray player 'pan and scan' is what I want but it doesn't seem to do anything - I still see the bars top and bottom, what am I missing ?
My TV is a Samsung plasma 65" (can't remember the model number at the moment) this has useless settings for zoom AFAICT, I can zoom / stretch the picture vertically but not horizontally - I can't watch movies where everyone looks tall and thin either.
I can remember an old Panasonic bluray player having a zoom where I could finely step the zoom up until I was happy with the size of the picture i.e. being able to adjust the size to balance between loss of the sides and height.
I'm passing the HDMI via a Marantz NR1601 AV amp - this can't be messing with the aspect ratio - can it ?
What other options do I have - any suggestions on another bluray player that has a working zoom / fill my screen option, any additional HDMI box I can add inline to give me this functionality ?