DVD Player Zoom Problem...

DVD Player has the ability to remember zoom settings on previously inserted DVD's. However I have found that the only way that this works is if you leave zoom checked and running all the time. This is fine. However, what I have also figured out is that if for example you insert a disk that needs to be zoomed and then follow that with one that doesn't ( and has never been inserted before), the default behavior is zoomed.
Why I am posting is to find out if anyone else has noticed this and been bothered by it. If so please send feedback to apple to get this added to the next DVD Player update.
The expected behavior for me would be defaulting to unzoomed, or having a choice as to where to set the default by possibly setting it without a dvd inserted.
Thanks,
Larry

This has already been fixed for the next version by resetting back to the normalized state when the disc is ejected.

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