My DVD with HDMI turned up today. I connected it to my HDTV via the HDMI cable and i'm a little disappointed with the screen size to say the least.

I have lost around 1 inch left and right screen in TV mode and in DivX it's like 3 inch either side :huh:

It's like i have widescreen on the top and the bottom as well as the sides too :rant:

TV is connected to DVD via HDMI in Progressive 1080i, have tried it in other modes but still same. TV-DVD-DigiBox are all set to widescreen too.

Is there anything i'm missing to widen the screen ?

TV is connected to DVD via HDMI in Progressive 1080i (...)

interlaced 1080 = 1080i
progressive 1080 = 1080p

What do your mean by "Progressive 1080i" :confused:

interlaced 1080 = 1080i
progressive 1080 = 1080p

What do your mean by "Progressive 1080i" :confused:

The DVD box in the menu is set to Progressive while the TV is not, the TV only does Interlaced at 1080. Anyways that isn't the fault as i've tried the DVD on all 3 settings, RGB,Interlaced and Progressive , all have the black lines at the side.

Isn't there an option on the TV to change the screen size (16:9, 14:9, 4:3, etc.)?

Isn't there an option on the TV to change the screen size (16:9, 14:9, 4:3, etc.)?

yes but nothing really doing anything, the only thing that is full screen is DVD playback, TV passthrough is small DivX playback is like 3-4 inch gap between picture and screen edge ??

yes but nothing really doing anything, the only thing that is full screen is DVD playback, TV passthrough is small DivX playback is like 3-4 inch gap between picture and screen edge ??

Is the source video 4:3? Tried a few of them to make sure? When I watch downloaded South Park episodes on my HDTV they often have black bands at the sides, but that's because the aspect ratio is 4:3. If I watch it on the PC, the media player usually automatically scales it to my screen size so I don't see the black bands.

Is there an option buried somewhere in your DVD player settings menu to tell it to scale the video output? And/or to tell it what type of screen you have?

yes there is the info and all it says is 1080i. At the moment i'm testing it with Return of the Jedi and that is full screen.

The Virgin digi box is set to 16:9 widescreen
The TV is set to widescreen ( no ratio on this item)

DVD full screen is no big issue as i don't have many, the TV has lost about an inch each side which i can live with but the DivX is like 4 inch loss.

I've had a thought , the DivX were ripped to XVID 640x272 23.98fps 760Kbps So will this mean they don't get upscale like dvd's to 1080, so what they ripped at will be the screen size ie.. a bigger ripped one will take up more screen space ?

I've had a thought , the DivX were ripped to XVID 640x272 23.98fps 760Kbps So will this mean they don't get upscale like dvd's to 1080, so what they ripped at will be the screen size ie.. a bigger ripped one will take up more screen space ?

(my bold)

Sounds like an anamorphic picture, in which case you should expect horizontal black bars at the top and bottom, but not vertical ones.

Does this link (http://www.starwarz.com/tbone/index.php?categoryid=22&p2_articleid=462) help?

where can we use HDMI cables ? i know we can use for ps3 what else?

where can we use HDMI cables ? i know we can use for ps3 what else?

Many things use HDMI.

PS3,
xBox 360,
HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Players
Sky HD box
FreeView HD box
Computers / Laptops

Many things use HDMI.

PS3,
xBox 360,
HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Players
Sky HD box
FreeView HD box
Computers / Laptops

Virgin V+
Sky HD+
DVD Upscale Players

And you may find a lot more things that didn't now will like the new Combo DVD-VCR recorders that are making Huge a come back that wasn't expected.