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Play movies on a widescreen TV from a PowerBook
It's not the PowerBook that's unfriendly to widescreen, it's the S-Video. All you're going to get out of a composite or S-Video port is a 4:3 picture with 480 lines of resolution (interlaced), whether from a PowerBook, a DVD player, or any other video source. The PowerBook will just scale whatever resolution you've set down to that format. Setting VLC to "Anamorphic" is essentially doing the same thing as an anamorphic DVD, which is a 16:9 picture squished horizontally into 4:3 in order to maximize the horizontal and vertical resolutions. This isn't a feature of the DVD player; the disc is burned that way, and it's up to the TV to stretch the picture back out again.
Play movies on a widescreen TV from a PowerBook
Oddly, my 3 or so year old ED (enhanced definition, ie: 480p) 16:9 plasma has VGA input, but with only an 800x600 (ie: 4:3) native resolution (or 1024x768 interpolated). So my VGA signals are all 4:3 stretched out to 16:9. |
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