[MacDV] Re: DVD player/TV crops my DVD-R

[Mike Swope]

Did not intent to imply that using different media would in any way 
change the cropping of the video. Just the playback reliability.

Gerhard Kuhn wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 08:03  PM, Mike Swope wrote:
> 
>> It will help the hang-up. The media is important. We've tried the 
>> cheap stuff, too, and experienced the same symptoms that you describe. 
>> These disappeared when using the Apple, TDK and Sony media (and 
>> probably others...one only has so much money to experiment).
>>
> How would using a different brand of media affect your project?  iDVD 
> has no idea what brand of media is in the drive and will burn the same 
> information on any of them.  Your set top player may not play some 
> brands but if it plays it the same information is decoded so same 
> picture will result.   Were you may see different results is on 
> different TV sets, even from the same brand, some may stretch the 
> picture more some less so there will be slightly different views.  Best 
> bet use the TV safe area.
> 
> Gerhard
> 
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