I'm trying to make sense of what your saying. If 16 x 9 is stretched out on a regular tv that doesn't make any sense. It is supposed to be letterbox with black bars on the top and bottom. That would mean your tv zoom is improperly set if you don't see the black bars. If the tv is a widescreen tv it should fill the entire screen. There is no zoom that will stretch the picture horizontally on a widescreen tv unless the picture you are inputing is not 16 x 9 but 4 x 3, then it will be stretched if the zoom is set improperly to widescreen.

JJK

The TV has no zoom function it is an old TV.
The video footage is I think 'true 16:9, and not video wit added top and bottom bars.
Our new television does automatically compres the image.

Same as when you render a 'Widescreen DV'in Vegas.
When you play it with Windows media player it automatically compreses the image.

Edit : The camera itself is sending stretched out 16:9-Widescreen footage.
Not footage with black bars on top and bottom.

I cant seem to set the camera to send footages as letterbox.

(Television is connected to RCA Video output from camera)

V

>>>I cant seem to set the camera to send footages as letterbox<<<

To the best of my knowledge none of the cameras "send footage as letterbox". If you shoot native/true/anamorphic 16:9 footage any osrt of letter boxing is added in post or when projected. When you bring it into your NLE you make sure you edit as 16:9 and when you output you can render with the letterbox. For DVD most all players that I have seen allow for setting the player for 4:3 or 16:9/widescreen Tv playback,meaning any DVD player that is set for 4:3 will output 16:9/widescreen with black bars.

>For DVD most all players that I have seen allow for setting the player for 4:3 or 16:9/widescreen Tv playback,meaning any DVD player that is set for 4:3 will output 16:9/widescreen with black bars<

The thing is that, after shooting I review the footage straight from the camera through the Video projector with the clients (Philips C-smart) unfortunatly my Projector does not have any 'zoom' function.
So a (European) football looks like an Egg for example ;-(.
I thought that there must be some 'in between video passthrough zoom hardware' which you could put in between the camera and the projector to view things in normal dimensions.

Probably the new projectors has this zoom function?

V

>>>Probably the new projectors has this zoom function<<<

Some, not all, are 4:3 / 16:9 switchable.

The other option is to do it the "old way" and buy an anamorpic lens for your projector. (Doing a quick search it says there are no optional len's for the CSmart. Time for a new projector I would say.)

Thanks Filmy,

I have been thinking about the JVC DLA Projector.

http://www.projectorcentral.com/jvc_sx21.htm

I have got to do some more research though.

Thanks,

V