Re: 16x9 Motion menus

Yeah, this is a TV issue.

A DVD player has internal handling of 16:9 when the player is hooked up to a 4:3 TV. But with 4:3 assets, menu or video it does sends it out as 4:3 aspect and it is up to you to set your TV correctly and if you. There is nothing in the video signal that tells the TV whether the video is 16:9 or 4:3 so it is helpless.

This is why I always use 16:9 menus and I have actually started to pad 4:3 video with black bars on the sides so that the video is truly 16:9 and will display correctly on a 16:9 TV (with the black bars on the side) and then set the asset to 16:9 Pan and Scan in DVDSP so that if the video goes out to a 4:3 TV it will be full screen because the bars are cropped off. THere is a little quality loss with this method but it solves a bigger problem. Of course you want to set your true 16:9 video to 16:9 letterbox in DVDSP, you can mix and match all you want.