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Play movies on a widescreen TV from a PowerBook
Authored by: TomAlperin on May 05, '06 07:33:55PM

DVD Player has some new features that seemed to sneak in. One of the options is to adjust zoom level. A check box can be unchecked to turn off keep the aspect ratio.

What you can do with is is set the TV to display the video stretched out. The video will now looked too stretched out, but you can now use the DVD player zoom to only zoom vertically until the picture is back to the proper proportion. You should be able to get the video to be fairly close by eye. If you know that the movie is the same as the screen it's being displayed on then just zoom until the black bars dissapear.



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Play movies on a widescreen TV from a PowerBook
Authored by: TomAlperin on May 05, '06 07:36:08PM

I forgot to mention. The advantage to this over just zooming on the TV is that you don't lose resolution like you do with the TV zoom.



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