Guest steven1503559515 Posted October 24, 2004 Posted October 24, 2004 Hi all, I wonder if anyone has any opinion about this: When feeding the AV output of a STB into a standard VHS VCR you have 3 choices of picture format to record (I'm talking about a WS broadcast here) 4:3 centre extract - which means the VCR records a similar picture to what it would get from its analogue tuner 16:9 letterboxed - my VCR records a letterboxed image and 16:9 full - my VCR records a "squished in" version of the full 16:9 image into a full 4:3 frame. I'm trying to decide which of the last 2 give the best picture quality on my 16:9 screen, given that it (the TV) can stretch either of them to fill the viewing area. Am I right in thinking that the 3rd option is the best because the TV has less stretching to perform? I know that recording tapes this way makes them unwatchable on a 4:3 TV but hey, who cares! Steven
Santa1503559644 Posted October 24, 2004 Posted October 24, 2004 Hi all,I wonder if anyone has any opinion about this: When feeding the AV output of a STB into a standard VHS VCR you have 3 choices of picture format to record (I'm talking about a WS broadcast here) 4:3 centre extract - which means the VCR records a similar picture to what it would get from its analogue tuner 16:9 letterboxed - my VCR records a letterboxed image and 16:9 full - my VCR records a "squished in" version of the full 16:9 image into a full 4:3 frame. I'm trying to decide which of the last 2 give the best picture quality on my 16:9 screen, given that it (the TV) can stretch either of them to fill the viewing area. Am I right in thinking that the 3rd option is the best because the TV has less stretching to perform? I know that recording tapes this way makes them unwatchable on a 4:3 TV but hey, who cares! Steven <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes - number 3, as its not actually throwing away anything (apart from the resolution drop). Remember, "widescreen" is the same as standard/4:3, but simply in a different format ("stretched").
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