Fixing Letterboxed Widescreen content on HD DVDs

posted by  techgeek (12)  10 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

HD DVD obviously rocks on HD content, but the SD content on the discs often grates me as it is displayed as widescreen content with black bars on the top and the sides. This happens because the original content (usually Extras) came from old fashioned DVD, and was 16:9 content letterboxed into a 4:3 frame. Thats ok, but if you just ask the HD DVD player to show that, it will add bars on both sides, so you end up with bars on every side. You can see this here