Widescreen TV recorded in 4:3

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growlinstan

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#20764 5-Apr-2008 12:24

This is my setup:

MySky
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WinTV-PVR-150-MCE Tuner Card

MySky is connected to PVR via antenna cable. I can display output of MySky in WinTV in broadcasted 16:9 aspect ratio (TV1, 2 or 3 or movies) if I keep it in windowed mode but as soon as I go full screen it squashes sides to 4:3 aspect and displays black bars on sides. If I record the output of MySky it records 16:9 content in the same squashed way, 4:3 atuff looks fine though.

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#121288 5-Apr-2008 12:56

The analogue input doesn't understand widescreen so it just records everything as 4:3

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#121343 5-Apr-2008 17:18

sbiddle: The analogue input doesn't understand widescreen so it just records everything as 4:3

Not quite true. My panasonic VCR if recording off the aerial feed a 16:9 Sky feed will record in 16:9 and play as such. Guess it records the 16:9 feed as 4x3 compressed..

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#121348 5-Apr-2008 17:25

old3eyes:
sbiddle: The analogue input doesn't understand widescreen so it just records everything as 4:3

Not quite true. My panasonic VCR if recording off the aerial feed a 16:9 Sky feed will record in 16:9 and play as such. Guess it records the 16:9 feed as 4x3 compressed..

It probably doesn't know 16:9 exists and records everything in whatever it is sent, which is then displayed again when you play the tape?

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#121849 7-Apr-2008 17:14

WSS will survive VHS quite nicely, so that is whats expected. DVD-Rs seem to not get it mostly.

My bt878 card and dscaler seems to cope with it fine as well.

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#121856 7-Apr-2008 17:24

My Pioneer HDD-DVD recorder records WSS fine to the HDD and displays it properly on playback. Havent checked recording to DVD

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#121858 7-Apr-2008 17:28

Would be interesting to know how you get on moving to dvd, thats what I have seen fail in the past, since its in the TOC or something not part of the video signal.

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growlinstan

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#123465 14-Apr-2008 18:21

sbiddle: The analogue input doesn't understand widescreen so it just records everything as 4:3

What if I use the composite input on my TV tuner card - will that recognise WS?

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#123560 15-Apr-2008 00:47

Dscaler is the only software I know of to read and work off the WSS, everything else seems to ignore it.

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#123909 16-Apr-2008 08:50

I have my sky decoder (not mysky) setup for 16:9 Widescreen output and have a svideo connection to my 150 card from the sky box. This gives me a 4:3 mpeg capture, when playing back in zoomplayer or dvbviewer I just change the aspect ratio to 16:9 and everything looks good. For copying to DVD I use TMPGEmc DVD Author and just change the aspect ratio to PAL 16:9 and it produces a DVD which plays back fine in 16:9 widescreen from a standalone DVD player.

growlinstan

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#125640 22-Apr-2008 19:20

otherland: I have my sky decoder (not mysky) setup for 16:9 Widescreen output and have a svideo connection to my 150 card from the sky box. This gives me a 4:3 mpeg capture, when playing back in zoomplayer or dvbviewer I just change the aspect ratio to 16:9 and everything looks good. For copying to DVD I use TMPGEmc DVD Author and just change the aspect ratio to PAL 16:9 and it produces a DVD which plays back fine in 16:9 widescreen from a standalone DVD player.

interesting, thanks.

growlinstan

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#125641 22-Apr-2008 19:21

richms: Dscaler is the only software I know of to read and work off the WSS, everything else seems to ignore it.

not sure what Dscaler is, but will check it out, thanks.