On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 08:27:08PM +0100, Duncan Webb wrote:
>There seems to be a way to automatically tell the telly that the media
>is 16x9. Something my set-top DVD player does (I don't think that it
>could be sending out the WSS signal). I seem to remember reading that
>some sort of marker in the video told the telly to go to wide screen mode.

If your TV has a SCART socket, then one of the pins can be driven to
half the usual signal voltage to tell the TV that the image is 16:9
rather than 4:3 IIRC. A widescreen TV will then stretch the image
across the screen as required.

DVD players & DTV boxes can do this automatically, according to the
codes embedded in the mpeg stream which tell the decoder what the
aspecet ratio should be.

Phil

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