nobbyv
12-12-2005, 11:22 AM
I just replaced my DVD player with my XBox as my primary movie playback device. I went to watch a movie last night, though, and had some trouble.
The movie was presented in widescreen, which should produce black bars on the top and bottom of my 16:9 aspect ratio HDTV. However, it was obvious that the XBox was stretching the picture vertically to fit the screen causing an unnatural distortion in the picture, as the black boxes were absent. DVDs presented in SUPER widescreen (1.85 to 1, like Gladiator), produced small black horizontal bars, but not the larger bars that an aspect ratio like that should demand. What settings do I need to change to have DVDs play back in their natural aspect ratio?
The 360 is hooked up with the component cable to my component video input on my TV, with the switch on the cable set to "HDTV". Under "Console", I have the resolution set to 1080i, though experimenting with other resolutions made no difference.
What am I missing?
The movie was presented in widescreen, which should produce black bars on the top and bottom of my 16:9 aspect ratio HDTV. However, it was obvious that the XBox was stretching the picture vertically to fit the screen causing an unnatural distortion in the picture, as the black boxes were absent. DVDs presented in SUPER widescreen (1.85 to 1, like Gladiator), produced small black horizontal bars, but not the larger bars that an aspect ratio like that should demand. What settings do I need to change to have DVDs play back in their natural aspect ratio?
The 360 is hooked up with the component cable to my component video input on my TV, with the switch on the cable set to "HDTV". Under "Console", I have the resolution set to 1080i, though experimenting with other resolutions made no difference.
What am I missing?