PS3 Video Setup

[collingwood01]

Can someone please help. My wife and I wanted to watch Titanic through our PS3, which gives a better picture than our normal DVD player , and when it started up it played in 4x3 letterbox on our plasma. Is this correct or do I have a setting wrong? In our dvd player it plays as widescreen.

[Blu-Malibu2009]

Originally Posted by collingwood01

Can someone please help. My wife and I wanted to watch Titanic through our PS3, which gives a better picture than our normal DVD player , and when it started up it played in 4x3 letterbox on our plasma. Is this correct or do I have a setting wrong? In our dvd player it plays as widescreen.

Is the film on one disc or is it split onto two discs? There have been two DVD releases in North America. The first was widescreen letterboxed to 4:3 and came on one disc. The second was anamorphic (enhanced for widescreen TV's) but split onto two discs instead of one.

The single disc, letterboxed version has the following cover:



The one that is enhanced for widescreen TV's and split onto two discs had a couple of different covers:





So which one do you have? If you have the single disc version then there's nothing you can do other than finding a Cinema zoom feature on your TV's remote and using that.

[collingwood01]

I have the the version with the first cover. Does this mean I can do nothing to improve it on the ps3.
Are the other versions widescreen?

[collingwood01]

I've just noticed another movie I have does the same thing - The Thing!

[Blu-Malibu2009]

Originally Posted by collingwood01

I've just noticed another movie I have does the same thing - The Thing!

Yes, a lot of earlier widescreen DVD's are non-anamorphic, meaning they aren't enhanced for widescreen TV's. If you have a zoom button on your TV remote, you should be able to zoom these DVD's to make them look correct. There's also different "modes" that you can select on your remote, or at least there usually is a selection. I have a Sharp LCD and it has a "cinema" mode that allows me to zoom widescreen content that is letterboxed inside a 4:3 aspect ratio into the proper aspect for viewing on a widescreen TV(such as on cable TV...Turner Classic Movies plays a lot of widescreen movies that are letterboxed). When you use a zoom function, it's going to hurt the quality of what you see, though the image will fill your screen the same as an anamorphic DVD or Blu-ray. If you're sitting far enough from the TV it won't bother you at all, however.

[collingwood01]

Thanks.

[GGX]

Originally Posted by TTUBatfan2008

When you use a zoom function, it's going to hurt the quality of what you see, though the image will fill your screen the same as an anamorphic DVD or Blu-ray. If you're sitting far enough from the TV it won't bother you at all, however.

lol thats such bullshit. You shouldn't zoom for any reason.

[Blu-Malibu2009]

Originally Posted by GGX

lol thats such bullshit. You shouldn't zoom for any reason.

Bullcrap. Nothing like watching a movie filmed with 2:35:1 Panavision cameras letterboxed in a 4:3 frame and then pillarboxed on a widescreen TV. What a wonderful experience!