Post by Skaggs on Oct 10, 2006 15:47:09 GMT -5
Dave Hancock posted the following over at the AVS Forum. Dave is from Rochester and also regularly posts at RochesterHDTV.com.
OK, Here goes: This is the procedure to record Anamorphic Widescreen DVDs from 8300HD HD recordings. A few "disclaimers" though:
A) Some DVD recorders (I've had this problem with my Sony) see an embedded copy protection signal on some programs and refuse to record from it. I've fixed that with the Sima GoDVD (available from CompUSA and other places).
B) The DVD recorder should have a "Record 16:9 Format" mode. This puts the appropriate "flag" on the DVD to automatically signal the wide screen mode to the player.
C) This procedure is for recording the main program . Your 8300 must be devoted to playing the program you want to record (it's OK to be recording other programs at the time). YOU CANNOT USE THIS PROCEDURE FOR THE "COPY TO VCR" FUNCTION.
The Procedure:
1) Turn Display on to the 8300 Out.
2) Turn 8300 off.
3) Simultaneously press 8300 Front Panel INFO and GUIDE buttons - a set-up screen should appear on your display.
4) Press "A" button on your remote - this puts 8300 in SD mode (it needs to be in this mode for this scheme to work.
5) Turn 8300 on via front panel POWER button - the screen should be magenta (at least on component outputs, I don't know about HDMI). This is because the "Y" lead contains the composite video out)
6) Switch the display to the DVD recorder and set it up to display 8300 S-Video output. Using LIST, select program to be recorded & start to Play (don't record, just yet).
7) Push # key on remote (may be labeled something else, like Enter, but is the one to the right of "0" It should switch the image between several display modes (Normal 480i>Stretch 480i>Zoom1 480i>Zoom2 480i). You will note that the Stretch mode, stretches vertically. That is what you want to record anamorphically.
7) Rewind to beginning of program and start recording.
8) When you are all done, repeat the set-up procedure 1-4, except press the "B" button and go through the HD set-up procedure.
That's it - Have Fun
A few additional notes.
a) You must watch the S-Video out to see the Stretch Mode working.
b) Though this has worked fine for me for better than a year and a couple of versions of SARA (currently on 1.88.17.a100) I have recently started to have an issue with the 8300 dropping out of the SD mode and losing "stretch". When this happens the front panel still shows 480i, but the component output has dropped back to normal (full color). I've successfully "fixed" this by going through set-up and setting to HD and then going back through set-up to SD again. (In fact I'm making a recording of "Dexter" for my son right now).
OK, Here goes: This is the procedure to record Anamorphic Widescreen DVDs from 8300HD HD recordings. A few "disclaimers" though:
A) Some DVD recorders (I've had this problem with my Sony) see an embedded copy protection signal on some programs and refuse to record from it. I've fixed that with the Sima GoDVD (available from CompUSA and other places).
B) The DVD recorder should have a "Record 16:9 Format" mode. This puts the appropriate "flag" on the DVD to automatically signal the wide screen mode to the player.
C) This procedure is for recording the main program . Your 8300 must be devoted to playing the program you want to record (it's OK to be recording other programs at the time). YOU CANNOT USE THIS PROCEDURE FOR THE "COPY TO VCR" FUNCTION.
The Procedure:
1) Turn Display on to the 8300 Out.
2) Turn 8300 off.
3) Simultaneously press 8300 Front Panel INFO and GUIDE buttons - a set-up screen should appear on your display.
4) Press "A" button on your remote - this puts 8300 in SD mode (it needs to be in this mode for this scheme to work.
5) Turn 8300 on via front panel POWER button - the screen should be magenta (at least on component outputs, I don't know about HDMI). This is because the "Y" lead contains the composite video out)
6) Switch the display to the DVD recorder and set it up to display 8300 S-Video output. Using LIST, select program to be recorded & start to Play (don't record, just yet).
7) Push # key on remote (may be labeled something else, like Enter, but is the one to the right of "0" It should switch the image between several display modes (Normal 480i>Stretch 480i>Zoom1 480i>Zoom2 480i). You will note that the Stretch mode, stretches vertically. That is what you want to record anamorphically.
7) Rewind to beginning of program and start recording.
8) When you are all done, repeat the set-up procedure 1-4, except press the "B" button and go through the HD set-up procedure.
That's it - Have Fun
A few additional notes.
a) You must watch the S-Video out to see the Stretch Mode working.
b) Though this has worked fine for me for better than a year and a couple of versions of SARA (currently on 1.88.17.a100) I have recently started to have an issue with the 8300 dropping out of the SD mode and losing "stretch". When this happens the front panel still shows 480i, but the component output has dropped back to normal (full color). I've successfully "fixed" this by going through set-up and setting to HD and then going back through set-up to SD again. (In fact I'm making a recording of "Dexter" for my son right now).