I have a setup question...

[monksp]

Hi, all.

I just bought my first blu ray player, a Magnavox nb530mgx. It's connected to an Element FLX-3211b hdtv. The problem I'm having with the setup is this:

When I'm using the 'Normal' picture size, watching a blu ray displays as a miniature widescreen with a black border on all four sides (It looks like 4:3 video with letterbox. The vertical bars on the sides are pitch black, as if nothing is being displayed, and the horizontal ones on the top and bottom look like a projected black, if that makes any sense). The next picture size on the tv is 'Full', which simply stretches the image horizontally. It fills the width, but the size of the top and bottom black bars doesn't change, so everything looks distorted. The only other two picture sizes are 'zoom' and 'wide'. These remove the distortion, but crop the sides of the image.

I've looked through the manual for both, and have the blu ray player set to 16:9, and the info box on the TV says that it's receiving a 1080p signal.

Anyone have any ideas? I can't see anything in either manual left to fiddle with to change things.

[repete66211]

Originally Posted by monksp

Hi, all.

I just bought my first blu ray player, a Magnavox nb530mgx. It's connected to an Element FLX-3211b hdtv. The problem I'm having with the setup is this:

When I'm using the 'Normal' picture size, watching a blu ray displays as a miniature widescreen with a black border on all four sides (It looks like 4:3 video with letterbox. The vertical bars on the sides are pitch black, as if nothing is being displayed, and the horizontal ones on the top and bottom look like a projected black, if that makes any sense). The next picture size on the tv is 'Full', which simply stretches the image horizontally. It fills the width, but the size of the top and bottom black bars doesn't change, so everything looks distorted. The only other two picture sizes are 'zoom' and 'wide'. These remove the distortion, but crop the sides of the image.

I've looked through the manual for both, and have the blu ray player set to 16:9, and the info box on the TV says that it's receiving a 1080p signal.

Anyone have any ideas? I can't see anything in either manual left to fiddle with to change things.

You describe your problem well, but I can't think of anything. You've done everything I would have tried. I assume it does this with all Blu-ray movies? It sounds like they're displaying exactly as would a widescreen DVD played on a wide screen TV.

[WriteSimply]

Originally Posted by monksp

The next picture size on the tv is 'Full', which simply stretches the image horizontally. It fills the width, but the size of the top and bottom black bars doesn't change, so everything looks distorted.

Full is the correct setting but more importantly, what BD movie were you trying to play?


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[zicmubleu]

Originally Posted by monksp

Hi, all.

I just bought my first blu ray player, a Magnavox nb530mgx. It's connected to an Element FLX-3211b hdtv. The problem I'm having with the setup is this:

When I'm using the 'Normal' picture size, watching a blu ray displays as a miniature widescreen with a black border on all four sides (It looks like 4:3 video with letterbox. The vertical bars on the sides are pitch black, as if nothing is being displayed, and the horizontal ones on the top and bottom look like a projected black, if that makes any sense). The next picture size on the tv is 'Full', which simply stretches the image horizontally. It fills the width, but the size of the top and bottom black bars doesn't change, so everything looks distorted. The only other two picture sizes are 'zoom' and 'wide'. These remove the distortion, but crop the sides of the image.

I've looked through the manual for both, and have the blu ray player set to 16:9, and the info box on the TV says that it's receiving a 1080p signal.

Anyone have any ideas? I can't see anything in either manual left to fiddle with to change things.

How did you connect it to your TV? If you have both an HDMI and an S-Video connected you may be using the S-Video inadvertently. From what I saw the TV only does 1080i but another site said 720P so what does the manual actually say it can display? And as Writesimply asked what were you watching, could it have been some extras on the Blu-ray that are only in 480P format?

[monksp]

I was watching X2, which is the only br that I have at the moment, and it was the movie itself, not any of the extras.

The player is connected to the TV through an hdmi cable. It's the only connection coming out of the player.