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Originally Posted by CrowKiller
If it's an older DVD it's not anamorphic. Meaning it was more for 4x3 CRT TV. Next time you buy a DVD, look for it to say anamorphic enhanced or something like that. Some just say 16x9 which isn't always accurate (looking at you Freeway). Anyway, those DVDs like that are basically junk now. You can zoom in a bit but it looks like crap even worse.
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Many thanks for the info! Yes, the DVDs are quite old. One has production year 2004 and one year 2005. I checked the covers, and they do not say anamorphic. But one of them says "Widescreen version" and according to the specifications on a retailer's website it should be "Widescreen 1.85:1 (anamorphic)" - but that info could of course be incorrect.
Some follow-up questions:
1. Is there any way to tell from the metadata on the DVD whether it is anamorphic or not? E.g. by looking at some fields in the MediaInfo data in [2] in my previous post, or similar?
2. Since one of the DVDs
might be anamorphic, could there be some other reason that there is black bars on all sides of the images (i.e. both pillarbox and letterbox) when watching that one on a 16:9 display? Or is non-anamorphic the only thing that can explain it, so that's what it is after all?
3. Is there any workaround for this problem except zooming in manually on the TV? One solution could of course be to re-encode it using Handbrake and then also crop the black bars on top and bottom, but then the video quality would get even worse than it already is (since it will be a re-encode after all, and not just a remux).