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|   Toshiba SD 5700 DVD Player, Quirk after using Zoom function | Jeffrey N
May 8, 2002 4:27 PM | | I recently bought a Toshiba SD 5700 DVD Player. The picture and sound on this machine are wonderful and overall it is a great buy. I have noticed an idiosyncracy with it and I need feedback from other owners. If the quirk can be found in every unit of this model, I will be happy to keep it. But if I discover that only my unit has it, it is obviously defective and I should return or exchange it. The quirk is as follows: I consider a normal picture on this unit a letterbox picture 4:3 ratio. Whenever I watch a DVD in "Zoom" mode, and I press "Stop", then "Play" again, the picture that appears on the screen is horizontally compressed and the black bands on the top and bottom of the picture appear narrower than in the normal letterbox 4:3 picture setting for this unit. To get a normal letterbox picture, I have to press "Stop" and "Play" a second time. I add that I currently own a 10 year old 20 inch Sony TV with interlaced picture. But I bought the DVD Player in the hope that I will get a Progressive Scan HD or HD ready TV in the coming months. I also picked a player with a zoom feature because one of my pet peeves is not being able to see a movie on TV, any TV as it was filmed. The Zoom feature lets me reduce the picture size to the point that I can see the whole picture in a movie as it was filmed, despite the fact that what I see on my current TV,especially when I have reduced a widescreen movie, is a picture the size of a glorified Postage Stamp. Now, I believe that it is normal if you press "Stop", as opposed to "Pause", this will disable the "Zoom". But I am not sure that, after pressing "Play" the picture should come back compressed as I have said. So I need to know if other owners of this Unit have experienced the same problem. If they have, then obviously the unit has this idiosyncracy built into it and I will not return/exchange what is otherwise a great machine for the money. But if only my unit appears to have the problem, then I will take it back. Please let me know if your units behave the same way. Thanks for taking the time to respond.
Jeffrey N., Toronto |
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