DVD recorder

alecpam

just purchased a Panasonic blu ray recorder.   model BD84.      but having problems playing some dvd's in that I cannot get it to play Full Screen via TV.   some DVD's do play full screen,  others don't.

even putting on the "Zoom" button does not help.

can someone please advise why this is happening

wongataa

What discs are you having trouble with?  Is the video on the discs the same aspect ration as the television?

jsmith9

As above - it could be the TV has a 16:9 aspect ration and the video you are trying to play has the old TV-style 4:3 aspect ration in which case you will see space each side of the video as you play it.

Carrot007

Bluray players (and this is a good thing) tend to enforce you not stretching the image in ridiculous manors to fill the screen. Unfortunatly this means you may end up with borders all around for non anamorphic dvd's (really old of cheaply done ones). Zoom was always a hack and a bad one.

Take all the dvd's to the charity shop and then the tip when they refuse and get something watchable.

sweetgirl2015

alecpam said:

just purchased a Panasonic blu ray recorder.   model BD84.      but having problems playing some dvd's in that I cannot get it to play Full Screen via TV.   some DVD's do play full screen,  others don't.

even putting on the "Zoom" button does not help.

can someone please advise why this is happening

I got 2 questions for you as I was interested in buying a bluray recorder, but does it have HDMI input? I see no point in it being a bluray recorder if its only got a scart input which downgrades the picture and defeats the object of it being bluray.
Plus how much did you pay for it? 

dipsomaniac

Thought everyone was streaming or downloading these days?  Binned my Blu-ray at least 10 years ago

castle96

As an aside, will old (10 yrs +) DVDs play on a modern Bluray?

AstonSmith

castle96 said:

As an aside, will old (10 yrs +) DVDs play on a modern Bluray?

Almost definitely yes. I've never heard of a Blu-ray player without a DVD laser assembly included as well.

Rodders53

sweetgirl2015 said:

alecpam said:

  model BD84.      

I got 2 questions for you as I was interested in buying a bluray recorder, but does it have HDMI input? I see no point in it being a bluray recorder if its only got a scart input which downgrades the picture and defeats the object of it being bluray.
Plus how much did you pay for it? 

That model number is a PLAYER not recorder.  Google it!

BluRay recorders:  HDMI inputs are unlikely as copy protection (HDCP) would make that input useless?  BluRay recorders allowed copy protected backups of High Definition (1080i/p) broadcast material from the internal HDD.  Also I suspect they'll allow copying from USB drive sources (editing HD video from cameras on the HDD and 'storing' the completed video on the BluRay disks).  The one I checked out has no video style inputs at all just the one hdmi out and two usb 2 sockets!  https://www.panasonic.com/uk/consumer/home-entertainment/hdd.html most of these devices don't even record to BluRay and are player-only.

DVDs are SD only 480 / 576 lines and the copy right holders were (slightly) less concerned about the copying ability of DVD Recorders back in the day.

J_B

dipsomaniac said:

Thought everyone was streaming or downloading these days?  Binned my Blu-ray at least 10 years ago

Well, you think wrong!

Not everyone has super fast fibre broadband!

(and we've never owned a BluRay to bin one )

Neil_Jones

alecpam said:

just purchased a Panasonic blu ray recorder.   model BD84.      but having problems playing some dvd's in that I cannot get it to play Full Screen via TV.   some DVD's do play full screen,  others don't.

even putting on the "Zoom" button does not help.

can someone please advise why this is happening

You might have least have mentioned what DVDs you're having trouble with.

Note that most TV programmes made before 2000 were not in widescreen.  So you will get the black bars either side.  Most films after about 1950 were made in widescreen as they would have been presented as such in the cinema) but they weren't always shown on a TV screen that way.