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scheduled to arrive in time for Christmas 1997). Mulan, a direct-to-video animation<br />
(not the Disney movie) with DTS soundtrack, appeared in November<br />
1998. DTS-compatible players carry an official DTS Digital Out logo.<br />
Dolby Digital or PCM audio is required on 525/60 (NTSC) discs, and<br />
because both PCM and DTS together don’t usually leave enough room for<br />
quality video encoding of a full-length movie, essentially every disc with a<br />
DTS soundtrack also carries a Dolby Digital soundtrack. This means that all<br />
DTS discs work in all DVD players, but a DTS-compatible player and a DTS<br />
decoder are required to play the DTS soundtrack. DTS audio CDs work on<br />
all DVD players, because the DTS data is encapsulated into standard PCM<br />
tracks that are passed untouched to the digital audio output. DTS discs<br />
often carry a Dolby Digital 2.0 track in Dolby Surround format instead of a<br />
full Dolby Digital 5.1 track.<br />
Why Is the Picture Black and White?<br />
You are probably trying to play an NTSC disc in a PAL player, but your PAL<br />
TV is not able to handle the signal. If your player has a switch or onscreen<br />
setting to select the output format for NTSC discs, choosing PAL (60 Hz)<br />
may solve the problem. (Refer to “Is DVD-Video a Worldwide Standard?<br />
Does It Work with NTSC, PAL, and SECAM?” for more information.)<br />
You may have connected one of the component outputs (Y, R-Y, or B-Y)<br />
of your DVD player to the composite input of your TV. (See <strong>Chapter</strong> 3 for<br />
hookup details.)<br />
Why Are Both Sides Full-Screen when One<br />
Side Is Supposed to Be Widescreen?<br />
Many DVDs are labeled as having widescreen (16:9) format video on one<br />
side and standard (4:3) on the other. If you think both sides are the same,<br />
you’re probably seeing uncompressed 16:9 on the widescreen side. It may<br />
look like 4:3 pan and scan, but if you look carefully you’ll discover that the<br />
picture is horizontally compressed. The problem is that your player has<br />
been set for a widescreen TV. Refer to “Why Is the Picture Squished,<br />
Making Things Look Too Skinny?” for details.<br />
Why Are the Audio and Video out of Sync?<br />
General DVD 41<br />
There have been numerous reports of lip sync problems, where the audio<br />
lags slightly behind the video, or sometimes precedes the video. Perception<br />
of a sync problem is highly subjective; some people are bothered by it,
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