Wide Screen DVD or Full Screen DVD for iPhone

[Stevez0r]

First off sorry for such a newbie question.

I have a small collection of DVD's, Wide Screen and Full Screen at home. I want to enjoy them on the iPhone I plan on getting after my T-Mobile contract is up in about a month or so. And before I get any more DVD's I would like to know which is prefer for the iPhone viewing.

 

[MagicWok]

Erm... Obviously wide-screen! Last time I checked, the iPhone has a widecreen display...

In any case, just maintain the image-ratio when you encode your DVD's and you won't go wrong. Even FS grabs look perfectly fine on the iPhone or Touch.

 

[Small White Car]

I'm not positive, but doesn't it let you zoom in on widescreen videos?

Like, you double tap the video and it blows up to a sort of pan-and-scan full-screen look? If so, using widescreen videos would allow you both views.

I thought I did that in the store with a demo unit.

 

[bacaramac]

I'm not positive, but doesn't it let you zoom in on widescreen videos?

Like, you double tap the video and it blows up to a sort of pan-and-scan full-screen look? If so, using widescreen videos would allow you both views.

I thought I did that in the store with a demo unit.

Yes you can zoom, but the reason you see black bars is not all WS DVD's are 16:9.