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post #1 of 19
2/11/05 at 1:59am
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Hey All,

My 700m came in today!!

I was wondering how it would be possible to use PowerDVD, etc so the DVD fills the 'majority' if not all of the screen.

Thanks!
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post #2 of 19
2/11/05 at 5:52am
Are you serious? It's a very complicated process.

1. Put DVD in.

That's it. PowerDVD will play it full screen automatically.
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post #3 of 19
2/11/05 at 6:02am
I think he is talking about removing the black line top and bottom of the video stream
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post #4 of 19
2/11/05 at 9:34am
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Originally Posted by Vordruss
I think he is talking about removing the black line top and bottom of the video stream

exactly
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post #5 of 19
2/11/05 at 11:08am
You may need to go into your video driver settings and select something like "Scale image" or "Expand to fit screen size" or something like that.......i'm sure someone with a 700m will come by here shortly
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post #6 of 19
2/11/05 at 12:37pm
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thanks for the info, I have both WinDVD and PowerDVD installed

Both can streach, but none I can zoom to the full screen...yet
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post #7 of 19
2/11/05 at 12:44pm
Get allplayer. It does some crazy stuff with screenformatting, but you can make anything completely fullscreen with a bit of playing around...
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post #8 of 19
2/15/05 at 12:29am
sorry for resurrecting a really old thread.., but the question still hasn't really been answered. I will be receiving my 700m in the next few days and i would also like to know if there is a way to fully stretch the movie so there is NO black bars on top and bottom.

kthx.

best regards,
Csware
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post #9 of 19
2/15/05 at 12:49am
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Originally Posted by csware
sorry for resurrecting a really old thread.., but the question still hasn't really been answered. I will be receiving my 700m in the next few days and i would also like to know if there is a way to fully stretch the movie so there is NO black bars on top and bottom.
PowerDVD has various resolutions for resizing the movie but that'll cut some of the picture of the sides.
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post #10 of 19
2/15/05 at 1:19am
I have used Zoom Player for a long time. It works great.
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post #11 of 19
2/15/05 at 3:23am
Ohhhhhh, THAT'S what you meant. But why would you want to do that? It screw up the aspect ratio and you get people with really skinny heads...
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post #12 of 19
2/15/05 at 11:08am
powerdvd stretches the image to fit the screen but it looks completely stupid. dell laptops arent true widescreen
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post #13 of 19
2/15/05 at 11:16am
learn to live with the lines.. OAR (original aspect ratio) is your friend.
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post #14 of 19
2/15/05 at 11:42am
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Dang, I was hoping that it could adjust and maintain the aspect ratio, kind of like what Plasma TVs can do...

thanks any ways
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post #15 of 19
2/15/05 at 12:27pm
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Originally Posted by lcohen999
Dang, I was hoping that it could adjust and maintain the aspect ratio, kind of like what Plasma TVs can do...

thanks any ways
Zoomplayer can do that. It will cut off some of the picture to fit it to the whole screen.
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post #16 of 19
2/15/05 at 12:33pm
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i'll try that out

thanks
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post #17 of 19
2/15/05 at 12:35pm
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Originally Posted by Monkey Boy
Zoomplayer can do that. It will cut off some of the picture to fit it to the whole screen.
So you have more control over the zooming unlike the pre configured zooming options PowerDVD gives you, right? I hate when some widescreen movies (example: Mulan) put small black bars on the SIDES as well.

I have yet to find a one-does-it-all dvd software player. I believe I tried Zoomplayer once but droped it because it was a pain to configure and did no subtitle manipulations. AllPlayer which someone recommended in this forum seems promising.
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post #18 of 19
2/15/05 at 10:05pm
Pan&Scan you mean..?

PowerDVD5 (I dunno about earlier versions), you just Full screen the movie, and then right click the video screen, and the third section has all sortsa goodies. I believe what you are wanting is Pan and Scan, for which it ofers two differenc ratios.
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post #19 of 19
2/15/05 at 11:05pm
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Originally Posted by lcohen999
thanks for the info, I have both WinDVD and PowerDVD installed

Both can streach, but none I can zoom to the full screen...yet
Are you uninformed that full frame after the first wide screen became a Pan and ScaM, rather than show the whole wide movie. Get out and see what is availble for your eye candy, the 20,000 Leagues under the Sea looked a lot better on my HDTV, than on the academy standard 1.37:1 size screen at the old Capital movie theater screen. I paid a full 25 cents to get in on December 23, 1954 at age 7, the OAR of Leagues is 2.55:1 Anamorphic Cinemascope, almost twice the width of the 1.33:1 Pan and Scam you want to watch your 'fool'screen DVD movies on.

Go www.digitalbits.com and click on Wide Screen they will tell and show you what I have just said to be the truth.
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