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Widescreen TV
I've bought a Widescreen LCD TV. However, I can only get a stretched 4:3 picture on all the analogue channels despite trying all the controls on the TV or remote.
Any ideas?
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Is everything broadcast in WS that you are trying to watch?
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Originally Posted by Mark59
I've bought a Widescreen LCD TV. However, I can only get a stretched 4:3 picture on all the analogue channels despite trying all the controls on the TV or remote.
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Originally Posted by Mark59
I've bought a Widescreen LCD TV. However, I can only get a stretched 4:3 picture on all the analogue channels despite trying all the controls on the TV or remote.
Any ideas? ![]() Widescreen FAQ - http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds11742.html |
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Does it have a zoom or crop setting?
Otherwise you'll only get it stretched, or with the black bars. |
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Widescreen TV
I thought I had a fault on my TV. I can either have 4:3, 14:9 zoom or Panoramic on the analogue channels.
However, if you don't have Sky or Cable is there any point in buying a widescreen TV ? The retailers never mention this! Thanks.
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for a start you will have a hard job buying a non-widescreen tv nowadays (especially a "brand" name model).
Proper (16:9) widescreen pictures are only on digital systems, such as, Freeview Digital Cable Digital satellite (inc Sky Digital/SkyHD) DVD Newer games machines (eg, PS2) running a widescreen game. I had a Widescreen tv before I got Sky (and freeview), but I already had a DVD player which provided widescreen pictures (on films that were filmed in Widescreen), and I knew I was going to get Sky soon after anyway. Dont forget, that some of the content on Digital Cable, Digital satellite (inc Sky), Freeview is not in Widescreen due to its age, eg: UKTV Gold. All such digital equipment also require you to enter the type of tv you have in a menu, before the widescreen signals are sent to the tv. Games have a setting per each disc plus the games machine has a setting menu as well. On analogue tv, most content is 4:3 or 14:9 - if you want these to fill the screen with the least distortion, you will need to use one of the special modes provided (Sony call theirs "Smart mode"). If you dont want any stretching of the old analogue pictures, you must select "4:3" which will give you the original picture format with black bars to the left and right. Aside from that, some analogue content is in a special "letter box" format - films, etc that have deep bars top and bottom on old shape tv's. Most widescreen tv's can "expand" these images so they fill the screen using a special mode (Sony call theirs "Zoom"). Also now, they tell us that more than 50% of the UK has got some form of digital reception, so in theory the same % have access to widescreen broadcast pictures. So 4:3 requirements are now a minority, hence very few 4:3 tv's being made/sold. Dave |
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put it to panoramic, as i had it on my first one
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However, if you don't have Sky or Cable is there any point in buying a widescreen TV ? The retailers never mention this! Thanks. ![]() Scroll to the clearance section of : Richer Sounds |
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I've bought a Widescreen LCD TV. However, I can only get a stretched 4:3 picture on all the analogue channels despite trying all the controls on the TV or remote.
Any ideas? ![]() Lol! Is this for real?
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Lol! Is this for real?
![]() More than 24 hours has passed between Mark59's original post and yours during which time the simple facts have already been pointed out to him. But at least you got a laugh out of it! |
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Analogue is not broadcast in widescreen. You want to set your tv to 4:3 for analogue sources...you'll get black bars down the sides.
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Originally Posted by Mark59
I thought I had a fault on my TV. I can either have 4:3, 14:9 zoom or Panoramic on the analogue channels.
However, if you don't have Sky or Cable is there any point in buying a widescreen TV ? The retailers never mention this! Thanks. ![]() |
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However, if you don't have Sky or Cable is there any point in buying a widescreen TV ? The retailers never mention this!
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My cousin had a widescreen TV and for 18 months had his Freeview box set to 4:3 centre-cut-out and then stretched that image, it was only when I saw the picture via his web cam and I told him it was set wrong, he changed it, he could see the difference.
I also know many people who have widescreen TVs yet their DVD players are set to 4:3 P&S. I hate to think of how many people also have equipment set to 4:3 on a WS TV. Yes, analogue doesn't broadcast widescreen, some people don't realise this, but it's easy enough to think about it, there is no way they could transmit widescreen on analogue without it affecting many many people with non-widescreen sets, that don't offer 16:9 (collapse) mode. |
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Originally Posted by Chris Simon
Remember that analogue, the only system that doesn't broadcast in widescreen, is being switched off starting in 2 years time! Then, most of what you can receive free of charge will be in widescreen. You will have to go to digital - analogue is being switched off. You don't need Sky or cable to get digital TV. DTT (Freeview) works via a rooftop aerial as analogue does now and you don't have to pay a subscription to it to receive all the channels you can get now via analogue ,and much more.
http://www.ukfree.tv/closedownmap.php wonder what the likelihood of an LCD TV bought today not having developed some bad pixels by 2012...
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