The Kites DVD has a problem with the aspect ratio.
Sanjay wrote:
NewDeep wrote:
@sanjay, can you help commuicate this to mr. chandna?
The DVD has been authored by Mr. Chandna's company and I communicated the problem as described here to Mr. Chandna. He seemed to be oblivious to what I described, but he did state that he would get a copy of the DVD and check it out. I will try and get a response in a couple of days after he has hopefully had a chance to check out the DVD.
How to replicate the "bug" on the KITES DVD released in India by BIG:
1.
If you have a 4:3 (standard) TV without "vertical compression mode" (also known as "16:9 mode" or "widescreen mode"), set the DVD Player to output at "4:3" or "Letterbox" mode (i.e. set it to output at any non-"16:9 mode") and play the movie. Now the picture should show the correct 2.35:1 ratio, but it continues to appear vertically stretched.
2.
If you have a 4:3 (standard) TV with "vertical compression mode" (also known as "16:9 mode" or "widescreen mode"),
(a)
set the DVD Player to output at "4:3" or "Letterbox" mode (i.e. set it to output at any non-"16:9 mode"), set the TV to standard display, i.e. do not invoke the TV widescreen mode, and play the movie. Now the picture should show the correct 2.35:1 ratio, but it continues to appear vertically stretched.
(b)
also try this --
set the DVD Player to output at "16:9" or "widescreen" mode, set the TV to "16:9" or "vertical compression" or "widescreen" mode/ display, and play the movie. Now the picture should show the correct 2.35:1 ratio, but it continues to appear vertically stretched.
3.
If you have a 16:9 TV, set the TV to 16:9 mode, set the DVD Player to output at "16:9" or "widescreen" mode, and play the movie. Now the picture should show the correct 2.35:1 ratio, but it continues to appear vertically stretched.
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The only way to watch this DVD correctly is to necessarily have a 16:9 TV or a 16:9 mode on your 4:3 TV, and force the 16:9 mode of your TV on the 4:3 output of your DVD player. Sadly, standard TVs with only 4:3 ability cannot play this DVD in its correct aspect ratio.