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Widescreen
modelsWT-46805,WS-55805,WS-55905,WS-65905
andWS-73905
Pressing the FORMAT button will cycle through the three different picture shapes or formats that
can be used with traditional TV broadcasts, videotapes, laser discs, some DVDs and some DTV
broadcasts. The three formats are:
•
Standard
- The picture is the traditionalTV
shape in the center of the screen with gray
sidebars. If this is a letterbox
picture, there will be black bars at the top and bottom.
•
Expand - The picture is stretched left-to-right
to fill the screen with no loss of picture resolu-
tion. Letterbox
pictures will still have black bars at the top and bottom.
•
Zoom
- After expanding the picture left-to-right,
Zoom will stretch the picture top-to-bottom,
and there may be some loss of picture at the top and bottom.
This format will reduce or
remove the black bars from letterbox
pictures.
All HD signals (1080i) and DTV 480p or DVD 480p signals will automatically fill the screen from
top-to-bottom
and left-to-right
and the FORMAT button will be disabled.
The FORMAT button can be used during POP functions if closed captions are turned off.
Anamorphic
Pictures
Some DVD discs might have anamorphic pictures. Anamorphic
pictures are specially designed for
display on widescreen TVs (the DVD player should be set to "TV Shape 16:9"). We recommend
using the Expand format with these programs to enjoy the benefits of full screen display, proper
image shape and high resolution.
Some anamorphic pictures are in special movie theater
widescreen shapes and might be marked "aspect ratio 2.35: I". These images will still show small
black bars at the top and bottom
of the screen when displayed in the Expand format.
Standard
shape modelsVS-50805
and VS-60805
These models have two different shapes or formats for use with traditional TV broadcasts, video-
tapes, laser discs, standard DVD players (not DVD 480p). The formats are:
•
Standard
-The picture fills the screen. Letterbox
pictures will have black bars at the top and
bottom.
•
Wide
-The picture is compressed from top-to-bottom
and black bars are added at the top and
bottom. This format is recommended
only for anamorphic DVDs. This will allow full picture
resolution and correct the picture shape. It is important
that the DVD player be set to"TV
Shape 16:9", otherwise
the picture will appear stretched.
When the closed caption decoder is turned off, theWide
format is available.
All HD signals (1080i) will automatically be displayed in theWide
format and the FORMAT button
will be disabled.
DTV 480p or DVD 480p signals will always fill the screen from top to bottom and the FORMAT
button will be disabled, Make sure your HDTV receiver and DVD player (if using the 480p compo-
nent outputs of the DVD player) are set to "TV shape 4:3".
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