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Paka wrote:

Starion wrote:I just took a quick look at the DVD. It seems that the DVD video is 815 x 480 pixles. I believe DVDs are encoded at 720 x 480 for NTSC. Notice that 815 / 480 = 1.6979. So, The Lion King's aspect ratio is 1.6979 or 1.7 : 1, not 1.66

1.66 ratios often come out as 1.69 on home theater systems. Kinda the same thing with Academy ratio films - they're technically 1.37:1, but the fullscreen ration of 1.33:1 is "close enough", if you will.

Ok, cool. I didn't know that. It seems that WinDVD resizes the video to the proper size. When I play take screen caps using Windows Media Player, I get a picture that is about 720 x 480.

My WinDVD takes captures in 720x480 only. You then have to resize to 1.333:1 or 1.77778:1...and remove black space accordingly to determine the actual ratio.

Bandwidth humor, eh? Ok, I gots one ....

What did the Bandwidth say to the System Administrator threatening to cut it down?

"You're either bandwidth us, or bandagainst us!"

[crickets chirping]

[owl whooing]

[frog croaking]

...faint sound of laughter somewhere for some reason...

Thank you, thank you!
I'm here 'til Thursday!

indianajdp wrote:I'm here 'til Thursday!

hmm u know what dont get why people say thursday why cant it be im hedre till tuesday or wednesday or even sunday maybe monday but i dont like mondays

Choco Bear wrote:

indianajdp wrote:I'm here 'til Thursday!

hmm u know what dont get why people say thursday why cant it be im hedre till tuesday or wednesday or even sunday maybe monday but i dont like mondays

Not sure about all the other "amateurs" out there, but I'm in demand.
Can't stay in one place to long.

indianajdp wrote:Not sure about all the other "amateurs" out there, but I'm in demand.
Can't stay in one place to long.

Just to remind you, I booked you for Wednesday night. And you better be more than five minutes late or I'll sue.

This might help:

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Satoshi wrote:

indianajdp wrote:Not sure about all the other "amateurs" out there, but I'm in demand.
Can't stay in one place to long.

Just to remind you, I booked you for Wednesday night. And you better be more than five minutes late or I'll sue.

I'll be there when I get there. Can't rush me...I'm a mega star.
Oh---wait. You want me to be late? Don't start this reverse psychology stuff on me.

And you need to STOP messaging me about the inflatable Davy Crockett prop. I don't care if you ARE from Texas (The ALAMO state) that stuff just isn't funny anymore.

Besides, I ummm popp...err....lost it.

Luke wrote:My WinDVD takes captures in 720x480 only. You then have to resize to 1.333:1 or 1.77778:1...and remove black space accordingly to determine the actual ratio.

I cropped the "black bars" on the side and got a resolution of 814 x 480. Weird. Thanks for the info Luke.

Sounds like you've got a better, more recent version of WinDVD. I should get that - it'd save me some time doing caps for reviews.

Luke wrote:Sounds like you've got a better, more recent version of WinDVD. I should get that - it'd save me some time doing caps for reviews.

I have Version 4 that came with my computer. I like being able to pause and step through the frames. I can also slow down the action sequences in lots of movies by 4x or 20x.

Starion wrote:When I listened to the DVD on my home theater system, I noticed that the musical sequences don't have a lot of bass. The soundtrack CD has more bass than the DVD's EHT and original mix. I'm guessing that Terry Porter wanted to minimize the song related bass so that the audience can hear the vocals.

I don't know if my 5.1 home theater reciever isn't configured properly.

The LFE effects sound great! The strange part is that music releated bass sounds dull.

I can barely hear the drum beats and bass instruments in the musical sequences. For the past four days, I tried increasing the gain of my powered 12 inch, 250 watt subwoofer to 85%, but that didn't make a difference. I don't think the reciever's subwoofer gain level adjustment is helping. My LFE indicator has three bars. I see the first bar blinking in "Circle of Life", "I Just Can't Wait to Be King" and "Can You Feel the Love Tonight." Unfortunately, Mufasa's voice also sounds dull. Has anyone else noticed the bass drums and other bass instruments in the musical sequences?

The original soundtrack CD sounds ok with my current settings. Any ideas?

oh my system when the songs come on specially Cant wait to be king the sound burries the vocals same with the stampede scene the background music keeps the sound effect from been heared at the beginning of the scene.

MickeyMouseboy wrote:oh my system when the songs come on specially Cant wait to be king the sound burries the vocals same with the stampede scene the background music keeps the sound effect from been heared at the beginning of the scene.

Ok, thanks for the info. You seem to have the opposite problem that I have. Hmm. If I increase the center speaker level to +3 dB, the vocals are louder and clearer. You can try increasing the treble. I have my treble eq set at +3 db with lower treble frequency at 4.3 or 4.8 khz. I don't adjust the midrange. If I do, the vocals and dialog become muddy. I hope this helps.

Ugg... the electric bass / sythesizers sound dull and lifeless on my system. I'll need to find another home theater to play my DVD on.

I found out what the problem was: the main volume was set too low.

If I increase the volume from 30 to 34 and the subwoofer gain, I can hear the bass with no problem.

Thanks for the ideas Micky Mouse Boy.

Yeah I have a sony home theater I might get a new one for no reason the first time i listened to the DEHT mix no matter how low i put the main volume the bass was still high it was awesome!

The Disney EHT track is awsome. I don't know if the main volume affects the pre-amp subwoofer output.

I have a Sony reciever too. My speakers are made by Sony, Infinity and Polk.

I reconfigured my reciever. Here's the deal:
All of my speakers can't accurately produce bass below about 90 Hz. The LFE channel contains effects and deep bass, but not all song related bass below 150 Hz. The other audio tracks do contain a lot of song related bass. If I can re-direct all bass from my front, center and rear speakers to the subwoofer, I can improve the bass quality of my entire system.

I went into the Sony reciever's setting and changed all the speaker sizes to small. By doing this, the Dolby Bass Redirection circuitry redirects all bass below 120 Hz to my powered subwoofer. Then I changed the cross over speakers for my main, center and rear speakers to about 110 Hz. Now all bass below 110 Hz is sent to the powered subwoofer. I might change the high pass crossover too 100 or 90 Hz.

Now the songs sound better. Sound effects and dialog aren't affected by my changes.

Now I need to optimize my plasma screen TV. I'm going to play around with the temperature settings.