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Originally Posted by henrique
The dvds from Album + dvd is soooo poor in quality...its not wide anamorphic and looks horrible in a Plasma HDTV or LCD....
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The fact the video looks terrible on LCD or widescreen TVs is becouse of the tv, not the DVD. Since LCD has pre-defined resolution, it has to scale the image which is in different resolution, cousing serious pixel disortion, which is additionally a lot more visible on LCD displays becouse of the sharpness of the image they provide.
Plasma should be a lot more adjustable, but I suppose widescreen format might couse the image to be streched - but that's what DVD player controls are for, you should be able to set the image to 16:9, so that the size normalizes. It will probably couse the image to be cut on top and bottom, or two black bars on the sides will be visible as the original 4:3-proportioned frame will be centered on the display.
It has to be that way, since everything depends on how the image frame was sized/proportioned
during filming. If they film a video in widescreen, after adjusting the image to fit a widescreen TV, there shouldn't be anything lost from the frame. But if they filmed the video in a 4:3 frame, even if the film editing crew or the DVD production crew stand on their heads, they won't be able to make it adjustable to a widescreen format without any quality lost - they would have to either zoom the frame or enlarge it, cousing quality loss, and then cut it properly, to make it look widescreen. In that process, they drop both image quality and pieces of the video frame (means you can't see some things you would see if the frame was left intact, without any widescreen conversion).
Just play the videos on standard non-LCD TV to not be bugged by pixel disortions or MPEG compression artefacts, which are a lot more visible on LCD displays due to their nature.