Dell 2405 FPW.........Component input problem.

[CTrain]

I have my DVD hooked up to the 2405 via component.
Some DVD play, some I don't get a picture at all.

Just some DVD I've tried:

GOOD: Eurotrip, Matrix 2
NO GOOD: Monsters Inc, Shrek, Nemo, A.I.

Anyone else with this problem ???
Maybe its my cheap DVD player.

 

[imverygifted]

maybe it cant display animorphic or vice versa

 

[DualMonitors]

interesting idea regarding the anamorphic or nonanamorphic. though it would be hard for me to believe that if it plays one type, the other type would show up blank with zero picture whatsoever. just a thought. i guess my first thought would be: do you have another dvd player to try it out with?

 

[jta]

I have an issue, i get wavy lines/squiggly lines at the top third of the screen. These are hidden when watching, say LoTR 1 in letterbox(thats where the black bars are at top/bottom, right?) but all of the DVD menus that i have seen have this problem.

I have not had any DVDs that didnt play, but I have only tried a few, including the new Incredibles (Jack-Jack attack).

 

[CTrain]

I have one of those DVD/VCR player.
I think its my sh!tty player.
Will try another DVD player tonight.

 

[jta]

bump

 

[jta]

I am trying to play a DVD that is in Full Screen Mode. The DVD is "10.5" a made-for-TV movie, i think.

The top 1/5 of the screen is wavy and shifted to the right when using the component input and a sony progressive scan DVDplayer.

Anyone luck, ctrain, in trying a new DVD player?

Thanks,

jta

 

[dodo]

I have exactly the same issue as you guys have, some DVD are fine and some are not. I have tried with two different kinds of DVD players and got the same result.

I believe it is because of component input because with same DVD I don't have any problem if I am using s-video.

Any thoughts?

Thanks a lot,
dodo

 

[jta]

I have heard that this may be caused by Macrovision copy protection, the same thing that will keep you from making a VCR copy of a DVD.... Macrovision will scramble the image, or will not record at all, if you try to record a DVD to tape.
Supposedly, the DVD requests that Macrovision be turned on, and the HARDWARE (i.e. the DVD Player will then modify the signal it send to the viewing device (Monitor, TV, hdtv, etc) so that the signal cannot be recorded.
It may be that the signal from my DVD player has MAcrovision turned ON, and the monitor cannot decode the signal properly... causing the strange behaviour.

 

[L00PY]

"Ripped" from AVS.

I ran a bunch of DVDs through it last night and it seems to crap out only for certain distributors. In particular, Fox (including 24: Season 1 and Family Guy: Season 1, Disk 1), Trimark, Artisan, Columbia, Miramax, and Universal releases all fail miserably for me. However MGM (I think), New Line and WB all seem to work. One exception to that list was the first Matrix release (one of the earliest New Line releases) that didn't work.

1:1 vs Aspect didn't matter. PS2 setting of 16:9 / Full (aka 4:3 letter box?) / 4:3 (aka 4:3 pan and scan?) didn't seem to matter. Aspect ratio of the DVD didn't seem to matter in "getting an input signal".

Aspect ratio did seem to matter when it came to displaying the image of course. The Matrix/Potter/LOTR DVDs were all letterboxed in 1:1 (being that they are 2.35:1 or 2:40:1 type films). Oddly enough, only a 1.85:1 New Line DVD (Harold and Kumar) seemed to take up the full DVD area when set to 1:1. That DVD area seemed to always be set to an 1.5 aspect ratio (~7.5" x 4.875") .