Page 1 of Wharfedale 750s-how to fit all text on screen?!

as no-one seems to have an answer to my SVCD topic below i thought i`d see if you could help me with a different problems i was having.....:-)
how come when i watch the Nutty Professor on my Wharfedale the opening credits don`t all fit on the screen ie.half of a name is viewable,half isn`t ??! it is a region 1 DVD. anyone?

This item was edited on Sunday, 22nd October 2000, 13:36

Have you got your Wharfy set to 4:3 Pan`n`scan instead of 4:3 Letterbox?

which one SHOULD i have set??

I think we`re assuming a `normal` rather than a widescreen telly here. If you have a normal (that`s 4:3 in technoboffin terms) you`d need to tell your DVD player that you`ve got that type of telly. It is then best to go for `Letterbox` rather than `Pan & Scan` - the latter is what you get on terrestrial telly where they chop the ends off (hence the inability for full text on the titles of Nutty Prof) to enable the picture to fill the screen.

If you go for the `letterbox` it might look weirdo but at least you`ll get the full picture, ie without the sides chopped off. You just get the irritating black bars.

My advice, rent yourself a widescreen telly from the Co-op or Martin Dawes (avoid Granada/Radio Rentals or, more correctly boxclever - they are united now) - should be able to get a good deal this time of the year.

Hope this helps, er, Pubs (?)

thanks guys! :-)