TOO MUCH MONKEY BUSINESS: The Elvis Forum

Anyone else noticed how loads of clips on YouTube & elsewhere [don't ask] are distorted ?

Either 4:3 stretched out to widescreen or vice-versa.

Examples:



I find this really irritating & annoying !

I don't know what causes it.

Why can't YouTube automatically display clips in the 'right' aspect ratio ?

Or why can't our PCs correct it ?

If I download a clip, I can correct things in my video-editing suite, but that's fiddly & time-consuming !

We need a simple way to adjust things, or have it done automatically.

They manage it on TV sets !

What is even worse, when you buy legal DVD's of TV series that were shown in 4:3 you get 16:9 and are missing (part of) top and bottom of the picture.
Next to that, USA DVD's (region 1) can be played on my cheap drugstore purchased DVD-player but.... the sound is out of sync with the picture after some 10 minutes. When correcting this, by using the pauze and play-again buttons, after another 10 minutes same problem. Other USA DVD's occasionally have the picture "jump" and the sound is in-sync again.
It feels like you are listening to The Who, where fast playing Keith Moon finishes the song long before the rest of the band.

With DVDs, you should have some control over the aspect ratio via your TV remote control.

Or is it a 'cheap drugstore purchased' TV too !

The TV shows it as it is on the DVD.
If it is 16:9 on the DVD and I change the TV to 4:3 it does not really change to 4:3 but turns into an even weirder picture.
With broadcasts it automatically switches between 4:3 and 16:9 depending on the way it is broadcasted.
The price of the DVD-player has nothing to do with anything. It is just that these cheap DVD-players play anything, whether it is region 1 from USA or any other region. My expensive DVD-player just shows "wrong region" whenever I insert a region 1 DVD.

Ah yes, it's the DVD disc at fault !

Or rather the way the film has been transcribed on to it.