I have a bunch of video files in various formats (MPEG, MP4, AVI, WMV)
that I want to burn to a DVD for TV playback. I've used both Nero 8
and Roxio Easy Media Creator 10 and I have the same problem with both.
All of the videos display correctly on my computer using various media
players (Windows Media Player, Nero Show Time, the Roxio one, etc).
But I've played the DVDs on four different DVD players hooked up to
four different TVs, and in every case the video seems to be either
cropped or it just doesn't fit on the screen. It seems like about 10%
of the video is cropped around every border. Many of these videos are
ones that I have created that have captions near the border of the
video, and those captions are being chopped off. Like I say, they all
look perfect on every computer I've played them back on, but when I
burn them to a DVD they get chopped. I don't think this is a 4:3
versus 16:9 thing, since these are not widescreen-capable TVs. This
also happens with videos I have from sources other than the ones that
I created.
"Bob Marshall" <ram52@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:7312da89-3c49-419f-8885-0914beb5199a@s33g2000pri.googlegroups.com...
>I have a bunch of video files in various formats (MPEG, MP4, AVI, WMV)
> that I want to burn to a DVD for TV playback. I've used both Nero 8
> and Roxio Easy Media Creator 10 and I have the same problem with both.
> All of the videos display correctly on my computer using various media
> players (Windows Media Player, Nero Show Time, the Roxio one, etc).
> But I've played the DVDs on four different DVD players hooked up to
> four different TVs, and in every case the video seems to be either
> cropped or it just doesn't fit on the screen. It seems like about 10%
> of the video is cropped around every border. Many of these videos are
> ones that I have created that have captions near the border of the
> video, and those captions are being chopped off. Like I say, they all
> look perfect on every computer I've played them back on, but when I
> burn them to a DVD they get chopped. I don't think this is a 4:3
> versus 16:9 thing, since these are not widescreen-capable TVs. This
> also happens with videos I have from sources other than the ones that
> I created.
>
> What am I doing wrong? This should be so simple.
>
> Bob Marshall
> ram52@comcast.net
Ken Maltby wrote:
> "Bob Marshall" <ram52@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:7312da89-3c49-419f-8885-0914beb5199a@s33g2000pri.googlegroups.com...
>> I have a bunch of video files in various formats (MPEG, MP4, AVI, WMV)
>> that I want to burn to a DVD for TV playback. I've used both Nero 8
>> and Roxio Easy Media Creator 10 and I have the same problem with both.
>> All of the videos display correctly on my computer using various media
>> players (Windows Media Player, Nero Show Time, the Roxio one, etc).
>> But I've played the DVDs on four different DVD players hooked up to
>> four different TVs, and in every case the video seems to be either
>> cropped or it just doesn't fit on the screen. It seems like about 10%
>> of the video is cropped around every border. Many of these videos are
>> ones that I have created that have captions near the border of the
>> video, and those captions are being chopped off. Like I say, they all
>> look perfect on every computer I've played them back on, but when I
>> burn them to a DVD they get chopped. I don't think this is a 4:3
>> versus 16:9 thing, since these are not widescreen-capable TVs. This
>> also happens with videos I have from sources other than the ones that
>> I created.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong? This should be so simple.
>>
>> Bob Marshall
>> ram52@comcast.net
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_area
>
> http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?showtopic=166
>
> http://forum.doom9.org/archive/index.php/t-89710.html
>
> http://www.homevideo101.com/ntsc-safe-zone/
In short, perhaps it's time to lose those CRTs, if this is important to you.
Burning video to DVD for TV playback 
Linear Mode
