Handbrake + TV on a SDTV

[anthony.strauss]

Hello everyone,

So I finally bought an TV the other day. I was very reluctant because I don't have a widescreen TV. However, I did some research before I bought it and found that if your TV has Component in (and mine does) and can simulate widescreen mode it should work.

Well, when I looked at some specs online about my TV, it says my TV has V-compression which, as I understand it would simulate a widescreen environment.

Here's the deal: I bought it, exported six different videos in Handbrake, each with its own setting, i.e. anamorphic strict, loose or none and also trying the three with and without the anamorphic setting in preferences checked and unchecked.

My TV doesn't have a way to manually turn on the widescreen environment, so I figured it will automatically detect if it needs to or not. I didn't letterbox the screen for any of the movies.

Since then I have just been outputting movies at a 720x304 or 720x256 resolution depending on the aspect ratio. By doing so the TV will think the movie is too wide and the TV NOT my SDTV will add the black bars on top and bottom simulating a 16:9 environment.

However, I would really like to not have to do this and re output them properly when I do buy a widescreen TV.

So does anyone know if there is anyway to output a .mp4 file in Handbrake so my TV will recognize that it needs to crop the TV display?

Thanks to anyone who even read all this.
Here's the specs on my TV