i just got my d3 installed today (hoorah), ive got the 80gig video ipod hooked up thru the ipod interface. ive already ripped a bunch of movies, all with resolutions ranging from 480x234 to 312x234. If a movie was 2.35:1, then i would just crop the movie to the contrast ratio of the screen (480/234 = 2.05). So I now have a bunch of 480x234 movies which look GREAT on itunes and even on the ipod (in widescreen mode). HOWEVER, when i play these movies on the d3 they still have bars on them?! I tried every combonation of d3 screen modes (normal, full, zoom, etc) with both ipod modes (full, widescreen). No combonation filled up the screen perfectly without cutting out the sides & top/bottom. I could see the whole movie in one of the combonations, but there were bars on ALL sides... What gives?

i just went out and compared some different AR rips, a 4:3 (312x234), a 16:9(416x234), and a 2.35:1(cropped to 2.05, 480x234). video mode of the ipod is full (normal) and the mode of the d3 is full (normal). in all three the image was cropped to 312x234, so the 4:3 looked great (with black bars on the left and right AS EXPECTED), but the 16:9 got cropped and the 2.05:1 got cropped a lot. does the ipod only display 320x240 in the "tv out" mode? even if i set the ipod mode to "widescreen", the IPOD inserts black bars on the top and bottom, then the d3 inserts them on the sides (312x240), in which case i have black bars on all 4 sides. does the ipod only output a certain resolution? it can't send out the entire frame and let the displaying unit (d3 in this case) to do whatever with it??? any ideas?

Why did you call this a "handbreak" issue??

I don't know if the capacity of ipod has anything to do with it, but I don't think so.

I have 30G and I don't have any problem you described.