My Shit

Tonight I was playing with the setup on my DVD player to realize it has the capability to generate the 16:9 video ratio for the HDTV input. So I threw in Mall Rats to check out the performance of the converter. My Mall Rats DVD is widescreen and the converter placed the widescreen picture on the TV with no black space at all. The TV has the capability of converting 4:3 to 16:9 using a cut and stretch feature that works out fairly well for TV but when viewing widscreen movies it didn't work out that well. The TV also has zoom features that work okay. But the fact that my DVD player can do all of this for me is just freaking great.

Then I realized my DVD player has component video outputs. I never thought I would get to use the component video outputs of my DVD player since I thought I would have to get a new DVD player to get the 16:9 output. Well, the new TV has two sets of component video inputs, and I decided to try them out. To use the component video inputs requires a few more clicks of the remote but the picture is unreal. I left the standard video input hooked up so it will require less button pushing for novice users. But for the serious video watcher, the component input is the only way to go.