Hi Nugget, Does the Samsung 4k blu ray player play DVDs in full screen?

[Deleted member 2457]

As above? Cheers.

 

[nugget2014]

Yes. But most dvds are letterboxed with black bars at the bottom. Its only "full screen" if the disc has the aspect ratio to fill the entire screen and i dont have any discs that have that aspect ratio

Avengers makes use of the full screen aspect ratio but that is a blu ray i own. I can check that to make sure or look online to see if any dvds i have are fullscreen so i can confirm

 

[nugget2014]

doublepost..

so here's cheryl's tour dvd, fullscreen! it reminded me how bad dvd's look on a 4k tv..

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[Benedict_Arnold]

Most 4K TVs upscale.

If you feed it a 16:9, that is 1920 x 1080 (1080i/p) picture it'll upscale it to 3840 x 2160. How it does that preceisely I don't know. I presume it somehow averages the spaced-out original dots to fill in the extra ones in between.

If you feed it a 4:3 picture or a 21:9 or 2.35:1 picture, it'll show black bars either to the left and right or bottom and top. Whether thats the DVD / BluRay sending "show these bits as black" or the TV deciding for itself I don't know.

As for Cherly looking bad at 4K, well, what do you expect? A higher resolution picture only enhances what's already there. Look how ofter old boilers like Joan Collins appear on TV and movies in "soft focus". Personally I'd rather watch Crufts.

 

[nugget2014]

Most 4K TVs upscale.

If you feed it a 16:9, that is 1920 x 1080 (1080i/p) picture it'll upscale it to 3840 x 2160. How it does that preceisely I don't know. I presume it somehow averages the spaced-out original dots to fill in the extra ones in between.

If you feed it a 4:3 picture or a 21:9 or 2.35:1 picture, it'll show black bars either to the left and right or bottom and top. Whether thats the DVD / BluRay sending "show these bits as black" or the TV deciding for itself I don't know.

As for Cherly looking bad at 4K, well, what do you expect? A higher resolution picture only enhances what's already there. Look how ofter old boilers like Joan Collins appear on TV and movies in "soft focus". Personally I'd rather watch Crufts.

i knew that..

 

[Deleted member 2457]

Ah cheers! That's great. Thanks.