ADVANCED OPERATIONS
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3) Playing 4:3 BD or DVD when “TV Aspect Ratio” is set to “16:9 Wide/Auto”
• 1:1 – The player maintains the correct 4:3 aspect ratio and adds borders to the left and right
sides of the image.
• Stretch – The image is horizontally stretched by 1.33 times. This zoom level fills up the 16:9
screen, but figures may look shorter and wider than they should be.
• Fu ll Screen – This zoom level maintains the correct aspect ratio but crops the top and bottom
slightly in order to fit the 4:3 image to the 16:9 screen.
1:1 “Stretch” Zoom “Full Screen” Zoom
The “Under Scan” zoom level shrinks the image by 5%. This zoom level may be used to
compensate for TVs that over scan, so the viewer can see the entire image area with no cropping.
All other zoom levels are indicated by their respective zoom ratio.
NOTE
• Some early DVD titles (r eleased from 1997 until early 2000’s) use a 4:3 non-anamorphic
widescreen aspect ratio. When played on a 16:9 display, the content is shown in a small
window with black borders on all four sides. The top and bottom borders are encoded
into the video. The left and right borders are added by the player to maintain the correct
aspect ratio. For this type of discs the “Full Screen” zoom mode can be used to eliminate
the borders.
• Due to the dominance of wide screen or 16:9 TV, NO specific ZOOM levels are provided
for “TV Aspect Ratio” of “4:3 Letterbox” or “4:3 Pan & Scan”
Zoom Levels for HDMI 2 & Analog (Component) Video Output
The following zoom levels are available when “Primary Output” is set to “HDMI 2 & Analog”:
1:1 (No zooming) Æ Stretch/Compress Æ Full Screen
Æ Under Scan Æ 1.2 Æ 1.3 Æ1.5 Æ 2.0 Æ ½ ÆBack to 1:1 again
NOTE
• The ZOOM feature may not be available when certain DVD or Blu-ray Discs are played
because the disc author chooses to disable ZOOM.