I recently purchased a Daytek 37" LCD and an LG LDA-831 upscaling DVD player. In general things look great, but there is a bit of weirdness when upscaling some DVDs. All the movies I've tried look fine, but some TV series DVDs seem to not be upscaling correctly. These are commercial DVDs, not ones I've burned myself.
Some of the ones I've tried (The Office season 3, if it matters) look fine and correct in 16:9, but others (Survivor season 9) appear to still be 4:3 and look stretched when the TV is set to 16:9. As these are both TV DVDs, wouldn't the DVDs both be 4:3? I'm not using any zoom setting, just switching between straight 16:9 and 4:3.
I've tried this using both component and HDMI. When they're connect via component, I noticed upscaling resolution is limited to 480p, which I expected as per the manual. Using HDMI aspect ratio weirdness is still present; some DVDs are stretched in 16:9, others are look fine. On the DVD player settings, 720p and 16:9 are selected.
I've read several other threads and FAQs, but they didn't seem to address quite what I'm seeing. Is there any reason why a DVD for one TV series would upscale to 16:9 fine and another doesn't? What can I do to address this (beyond switching 16:9 to 4:3 depending on the DVD)?
Two quick pseudo-asides to help with debugging:
1) The TV only has one HDMI input and I don't really want to get an HDMI switch and another cable unless I need them. HDMI for the DVD player and component for the Motorola 3416 STB should be fine, yes?
2) When I change the input source on the TV, if it it's an analog source, it pops up the current resolution in the corner briefly. This doesn't seem to happen with HDMI, however. I might be misremembering, but is there an easy way to get the TV to display the resolution of the signal it's currently receiving?
Some of the ones I've tried (The Office season 3, if it matters) look fine and correct in 16:9, but others (Survivor season 9) appear to still be 4:3 and look stretched when the TV is set to 16:9. As these are both TV DVDs, wouldn't the DVDs both be 4:3? I'm not using any zoom setting, just switching between straight 16:9 and 4:3.
I've tried this using both component and HDMI. When they're connect via component, I noticed upscaling resolution is limited to 480p, which I expected as per the manual. Using HDMI aspect ratio weirdness is still present; some DVDs are stretched in 16:9, others are look fine. On the DVD player settings, 720p and 16:9 are selected.
I've read several other threads and FAQs, but they didn't seem to address quite what I'm seeing. Is there any reason why a DVD for one TV series would upscale to 16:9 fine and another doesn't? What can I do to address this (beyond switching 16:9 to 4:3 depending on the DVD)?
Two quick pseudo-asides to help with debugging:
1) The TV only has one HDMI input and I don't really want to get an HDMI switch and another cable unless I need them. HDMI for the DVD player and component for the Motorola 3416 STB should be fine, yes?
2) When I change the input source on the TV, if it it's an analog source, it pops up the current resolution in the corner briefly. This doesn't seem to happen with HDMI, however. I might be misremembering, but is there an easy way to get the TV to display the resolution of the signal it's currently receiving?