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DJ Crimson
02-20-2007, 04:19 PM
Have a question about playing PS1 & PS2 games on the PS3. When I put in NBA Street Vol. 2, it was displayed as full screen on 50 Inch TV. So everything looked a bit blurry, and some of the parts you weren't able to see on the bottom and top. How would I be able to adjust this to look normal?
agbulls
02-20-2007, 05:06 PM
I sounds to me like you need to:
1. Set your PS3 to widescreen
2. Made sure your TV is set to the "full" option
3. Make sure NBA Street is set for "widescreen" if it has it
DJ Crimson
02-20-2007, 05:34 PM
Thanks, I thought I read somewhere that it auto formats to the best option available for the games.
The PS3 doesn't do anything automatically with your PS1 or PS2 games. Both of these types of games are always natively 4:3. Games with a "widescreen" option are just anamorphic and would require you to manually set your TV to widescreen mode to see them properly.
In your example, it appears the game is set to normal (4:3) but you have the TV set to wide/zoom/full, depending on how your TV names it. You need to set your TV to "normal" (or whatever your TV calls 4:3 mode).
mailman187666
02-21-2007, 04:25 PM
my TV is an old samsung HDTV (4:3) that does 480p in 4:3 and 1080i 16:9. Does anyone know if these old 4:3 HDTVs are able to switch over to widescreen mode, or is that only on certain TVs. I find it kind of dumb that I can only play my PS3 in 1080i with widescreen mode where everything looks stretched out. Is there anything to do about that?