Page 1 of Philips DVDR 880 and recording in Widescreen

Hello,

Just got a Philips DVDR 880 recorder for Christmas and it works fine.

Only one problem, recording in widescreen! If I record a widscreen programe, all it does on play back is sqash the picture aso it is a 4:3 picture. Can anyone tell me how to get it so that it will record the picture in a 16:9 format rather than a 4:3 format?

Thanks in advance, happy new year to all, John.

Have you set the dvd recorder to widescreen?
See page 67 in the manual.
Hope this helps.
gadget freak.

Hello,

Thankyou for your reply, the recorder is set to widescreen, it`s just when I try to play the discs back in my computer, it trys playing them back as a normal 4:3 picture. The computer is set to 4:3 Letterbox, so I take it the recorder is recording the value 4:3 in the VIDIEO_TS.ifo file insted of 16:9.

I have checked this out using a progame called "infoedit" and I can conferm it.

So does anyone know of a way around this?

Thanks in advance, John.

John,

Confused here! Is the problem with playing back on your WS TV (I assume you have a WS TV?) just your computer or both? I have an 890. I have it set to 16.9 because I have a 16.9 Philips WS TV. If I record a true WS film or programme, say from Sky on Premier WS, then the film plays back on the PC as a WS film. Must other broadcasts are, I believe, not true WS, but the WS TV sorts out the ratios when it is played back. I don`t think you actually have a problem here. Give this site a look
http://www.dvdplusrw.org/ - and perhaps ask your question there.... I seem to remember a thread on this a while back.