PVR500 Widescreen

[psycik]

Is it possible to recording in WideScreen with a pvr500?

Oh, via composite, not tuner.

[stustunz]

yeah id like to just zoom the picture slightly i get black all the way around compared to the digital recordings which full the screen completely
i had a look for a way around it but came up empty

[agerdin]

Hi, I asked a similar question some time ago and it does not seem to be possible with the analogue devices.

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=35251

\\Agerdin

[pBS]

you can kinda get that effect depending on your source box...but you'd have a wrong aspect ratio in the file..[it would look like 4:3 but be a16:9 recording..]
my sat box lets me select 4:3 or 16:9 tv, but since it's svideo out, it results in a stretched video w/16:9 setting, which you record like normal...
on playback, you'd have to set aspect w/F7 to correct for recorded aspect...

and since you used more of the screen for video, you get a slightly better video resolution..
but it's a mute point if you don't have any true 16:9 content on your source...
[all non-hd channels on some boxes]

otherwise you'd just get more black bars to avoid...



oh and i think it only works on the rf out [ch3-4]

[sub]

pBS above is correct. Recordings coming from a analog device are always marked as '4:3' by the H/W encoder, but it will record the widescreen video you supplied it. The 'auto' aspect ratio wont get it right, but you should be able to F7 to correct it.

[peter t]

A usefull tool is "DVD Patcher" http://www.wincesoft.de/html/dvdpatcher.html I record the S Video output using a PVR150 of a Pay TV Set top Box set to 16:9 then use this tool to change the file headers to 16:9 . You can also edit your video with VideoReDo and set the options to 16:9 when you save the new file. I reguarly use this method to make 16:9 DVD compatible video and burn DVD's. The result looks good on my 100cm Sony LCD.

[psycik]

Any other options for recording off an STB? Currently I've only got composite available, but will be moving to a new provider soon where component may be available. Still all SD content though.