Hi

I have just received the new sony 710 & notice that my widescreen picture on SKY is wider that the freeview picture on the 710.....is this a feature of freeview or do I my settings wrong (i have set it to 16.9)

Cheers guys

Any particular channels this is occuring on?

all of them...on all my sky channels I have the black bars above & below the main picture but my freeview picture fills the whole screen...thmy Sony TV is set to the 'smart' setting

is sounds like you need to change our settings on he 710 to output 16:9 instead of letterbox

- on your 710 remote press the 'system menu' button
- move down to 'setup', press enter
- move down to the 'video' option, press enter
- there the top option should be 'TV type' press enter
- make sure that you have 16:9 selected here

if you have your 710 setup to send the TV picture to your TV from Line1 scart output you should make sure you have that setup to be RGB output, on the same 'system menu'/'Setup'/'video' move down to 'scart setting' and change that to RGB.

hopefully having these settings will output a 16:9 RGB singnal to your tv

It may also be worth checking the Sky box isn't set to 4:3 letterbox. If it's a widescreen TV you shouldn't be getting black bars above and below the picture on any channel, except for the odd movie.