Samsung DVD-P241 Progressive-Scan DVD Player
Thank you Samsung for EZ View
For guys like me that regularly watch DVDs on a small screen <br />(14\\") television, the EZ View Letterbox elimination option is <br />a real life saver.  EZ View gives me the option of eliminating <br />letterboxing by expanding the center of the image and cropping <br />the sides, which is basically how Widescreen (16:9 ratio) movies <br />are \\"panned and scanned\\" to fit into a Fullframe (4:3 ratio) <br />television screen.  This option makes it easier to view the <br />center of action in movies that don't have a Fullframe version <br />available.  In particular, this feature made it possible to <br />properly view some of my favorite movies that are only avail- <br />able in a 2:35 ratio, such as Tora! Tora! Tora!, Zulu and The <br />Thin Red Line, without the image getting so compressed as to <br />be unviewable.  I thank Samsung for giving us the ability to <br />make the trade off ourselves between image compression and <br />cropping off the sides of the movie.