Savant's new reviews today are
I have a really good reason to readers to go back and look at an older review; the mini-crisis of the Ingmar Bergman boxed set is the topic discussed in a rebuttal letter from Nick Wrigley, now appended to the review of Hour of the Wolf.
And generous correspondent Ted Todorov offered this tech-savvy advice on the subject of overscanning on monitors, something that I often say makes fine distinctions in Aspect Ratios irrelevant:
"...the easiest and for many people most practical method of eliminating overscan:
DVD players such as the Panasonic RP-91, Malata 996 and 520, etc., allow one to zoom in and OUT in very minute degrees. In practice this means that you can totally eliminate your TV's overscan by zooming out slightly -- all it takes is a couple of taps on the DVD player's remote control.
I believe that any DVD player that uses a Mediamatics chip has this capability, as well as the ability to move the picture in any direction on the X-Y axis thus allowing one to correct other problems with the TV's picture geometry besides overscan.
This is the easiest, cheapest and I suspect most widespread method for DVD viewers to eliminate overscan, especially for those of us without the technical knowledge necessary to adjust a TV's factory menu."
Thanks Ted .... Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at April 04, 2004 10:26 AM