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“Will I Have Problems Connecting My VCR Between My TV and My DVD<br />
Player?”).<br />
How Do I Find Easter Eggs and Other Hidden Features?<br />
Some DVD movies contain hidden features, often called Easter eggs. These<br />
are extra screens or video clips hidden in the disc by the developers. For<br />
example, Dark City includes scenes from Lost in Space and from the Twin<br />
Peaks movie buried in the biography pages of William Hurt and Keifer<br />
Sutherland. An amusing Shell Beach game is also entwined throughout the<br />
menus. On Mallrats, perhaps indicating that DVD has already become too<br />
postmodern for its own good, a hidden clip of the director telling you to<br />
stop looking for Easter eggs and do something useful is included. It’s more<br />
fun to search for hidden features on your own, but if you need some help,<br />
the best list is at the DVD Review web site.<br />
How Do I Get Rid of the Black Bars at the Top and Bottom?<br />
The black bars are part of the letterbox process (see video details in <strong>Chapter</strong><br />
3), and in many cases you can’t get rid of them. If you set the display<br />
option in your player to pan and scan (sometimes called full screen or 4:3)<br />
instead of letterbox, it won’t do you much good because almost no DVD<br />
movies have been released with this feature enabled. If you set the player<br />
to 16:9 widescreen output, it will make the bars smaller, but you will get a<br />
tall, stretched picture on a standard TV.<br />
In some cases, both a full-screen and a letterbox version of the movie<br />
may be included on the same disc, with a variety of ways to get to the fullscreen<br />
version (usually only one works, so you may have to try all three):<br />
• Check the other side of the disc (if it’s two-sided).<br />
• Look for a full-screen choice in the main menu.<br />
• Use the “aspect” button on the remote control.<br />
General DVD 43<br />
DVD was designed to make movies look as good as possible on TV.<br />
Because most movies are wider than most TVs, letterboxing preserves the<br />
format of the theatrical presentation. (Nobody seems to complain about letterboxing<br />
in theaters.) DVD is ready for TVs of the future, which are<br />
widescreen. For these and other reasons, many movies on DVD are only<br />
available in widescreen format.<br />
About two-thirds of widescreen movies are filmed at the 1.85 (flat) aspect<br />
ratio or less. In this case, the actual size of the image on your TV is the same
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