360 Video Settings

Geo · Post by **Geo** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:07 pm

Hey guys, just wondered if anyone knows the answer to this...

I bought a HD-DVD drive, and today got Troy. It has black bars. Now I know it's the way the movie's filmed, but I read in one of the changelogs for 360 dash updates, that it was possible to remove letterboxing.

Anyone know how?

a mammoth · Post by **a mammoth** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 5:31 pm

Its in advanced setting while playing the DVD, at least, thats what its like in the regular DVD.

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:38 pm

Why would you want to remove the letterbox? If you did It'd distort the video (assuming you're running a 16x9 movie on a 4x3 screen or vice versa, or any of the varients.).

DWells55 · Post by **DWells55** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 10:54 pm

Yeah, removing the letterboxing is either going to crop the movie and cause you to lose parts of the image and decrease your image quality of it's going to screw up your aspect ratio, which is just painful to watch.

Geo · Post by **Geo** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:35 am

I tell you what's painful, running 16:9 HD DVD's on a 16:9 HDTV and the image is about 10pixels high.

Where are these advanced settings you speak of?!

Ketchup_Bomb · Post by **Ketchup_Bomb** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 12:44 pm

Can you not press 'A' during playback, and then select the second option from the right?
That messes with the display resolution.

Geo · Post by **Geo** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 4:27 pm

Naw, sadly. I don't think it's possible.

I'm really pissed off about this, I'm surprised there haven't been like petitions to the movie makers to make movies in a Universally acceptable Aspect Ratio. By the time you lose 30% of your screen height to black bars, your vertical resolution isn't too different to standard definition.

DWells55 · Post by **DWells55** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 6:42 pm

Pretty much all movies are filmed 2.25:1, so your 16:9 TV gets black bars on it, plain and simple.