60Widescreen TV Recording (16:9)The camcorder uses the full width of the CCD providing high-resolution 16:9 recording.Press the WIDE SCR button.• “ ” disappears and the picture changes to 4:3 aspect ratio.• On the LCD screen: Widescreen video will display normally; video in 4:3 aspect ratiowill appear with black side bars.• On the viewfinder screen: Widescreen video will appear in “letterbox” display; video in4:3 aspect ratio will display normally. Simultaneous recording on a memory card cannot be used when thewidescreen mode is selected. Playing back recordings made in the widescreen mode on a normal TV: If theTV type is set to [NORMAL TV] the recording will be played back in “letterbox”display. If the TV type is set to [WIDE TV] the image will appear horizontallysqueezed ( 34). If you connect the camcorder to a TV with Video ID-1 system, recordings madein the widescreen mode will be automatically played back in widescreen mode.WIDE SCR button
