Samsung BD-E5300/ZA user manual TV Aspect Ratio, BD Wise Samsung Players only, Resolution, Display

Display

You can configure various display options such as the TV Aspect Ratio, Resolution, etc.

TV Aspect Ratio

Depending on the type of television you have, you may want to adjust the screen size setting.

•16:9 Original : Select when you connect the player to a 16:9 TV screen. The player will display all content in its original aspect ratio.

Content formatted in 4:3 will be displayed with black bars on the left and right.

•16:9 Full : Select when you connect the player to a 16:9 TV screen. All content will fill the full screen. Content formatted in 4:3 will be stretched.

•4:3 Letter Box : Select when you connect the player to a 4:3 TV screen. The player will display all content in its original aspect ratio. Content formatted in 16:9 will be displayed with black bars on the top and bottom.

•4:3 Pan-Scan : Select when you connect the player to a 4:3 TV screen. 16:9 content will have the extreme left and right portions cut off.

✎NOTE

▪▪ Depending on the disc type, some aspect ratios may not be available.

▪▪ If you select an aspect ratio and option which is different than the aspect ratio of your TV screen, then the picture might appear to be distorted.

▪▪ If you select the 4:3 Pan-Scan or 4:3 Letter Box, pressing the FULL SCREEN button on the remote will not bring up a full screen picture.

▪▪ If you select the 16:9 Original, your TV may display 4:3 Pillarbox (black bars on sides of picture). If this occurs, pressing the FULL SCREEN button on the remote will not bring up a full screen picture.

BD Wise (Samsung Players only)

BD Wise is Samsung’s latest inter-connectivity feature.

When you connect a Samsung player and a Samsung TV with BD Wise to each other via HDMI, and BD Wise is on in both the player and TV, the player outputs video at the video resolution and frame rate of the Blu-ray Disc/DVDs.

• Off : The output resolution stays fixed at the resolution you set previously in the Resolution menu, regardless of the resolution of the disc.

• On : The player outputs video at the original resolution and frame rate of the Blu-ray Disc/DVDs.

✎NOTE

▪▪ When BD Wise is on, the Resolution setting automatically defaults to BD Wise and BD Wise appears in the Resolution menu.

▪▪ If the player is connected to a device that does not support BD Wise, you can not use the BD Wise function.

▪▪ For proper operation of BD Wise, set the BD Wise menu of both the player and the TV to On.

Resolution

Lets you set the output resolution of the HDMI video signal to Auto, 1080p, 1080i, 720p or 576p/480p. The number indicates the number of lines of video per frame. The i and p indicate interlaced and progressive scan, respectively. The more lines, the higher the quality.

•Auto : Automatically sets the output resolution to the connected TV’s maximum resolution.

•BD Wise : Automatically sets the resolution to the resolution of the Blu-ray Disc/DVDs if you have connected the player via HDMI to a TV with the BD Wise feature. (The BD Wise menu item appears only if BD Wise is set to On. See BD Wise above.)

Resolution according to the output mode