Setting "Widescreen Movie Display on 4:3"

[MarkyBoy666]

Does anyone know what the industry (commercial) standard is for the following setting in DVD-Lab, when creating a 6:9 menu & movie?

Widescreen movie display on 4:3:

1. Automatic - Set By Player
2. Letterbox
3. Pan & Scan

I'm guessing (1) but I'd be grateful for any suggestions...

[FlimsyFeet]

For movies, I think it's normally (2) - even if the player is set up to display 16:9 as pan & scan, no-one ever bothers putting int he "vectors" (?) that tell the player which bit of the widescreren picture should be displayed, so it's better to always force it to letterboxed.

[Awatef]

Yeah, I would go for letterbox too. That will produce black bars on 4:3 TV sets by default.
PS: you could always switch to Pan&Scan in your player even if you set letterbox. But, as stated above by Flimsy, this will do you no good as the player will dumbly cut 12,5% of the picture on each side. This is especially bad w/ 2.35:1 movies where almost half of the picture gets lost.

[MarkyBoy666]

Thanks guys, much appreciated!

[setarip_old]

Hi!

I'd suggest that you use "1", as it will allow you the option of choosing from amongst your standalone player's available format settings - some people prefer having "the entire screen filled" (The frequent result of setting the player to "16:9" for a TV with a 4:3 display), even if the image is distorted...