I brought am LG TV last month and it has built in Freeview.

One thing i want to know is how to adjust the picture because it wont allow to me have it on letterbox so all 16:9 programmes i watch are automatically adjusted to fill the screen, and i dont want this! Can i change it?

Errrrrrr????

I may be missing something here but..

The TV is 16:9 aspect ratio is it not? So surely it is perfectly correct that a 16:9 broadcast fill the entire screen? Therefore to letterbox it you will have to compress the picture vertically? which is going to look wrong.

Or am I barking up entirely the wrong forest?

???
The tv is 16:9 and the broadcast is 16:9.
A cinemascope presentation or 21:9 would need to be letterboxed, not a 16:9.

What is your input signal?

Or exactly what is written above!!!!!!

The TV, is 16:9 as is the broadcast on most of the programmes.

However, even on a widescreen TV i still like to watch it with the bars. Sad i know but you can adjust it on separate freeview boxes

On a set top box the settings are for use with a 4:3 TV. You can set the box to either display the centre section of a 16:9 picture full screen on a 4:3 TV or display the full 16:9 picture letterboxed into a 4:3 frame.

You could tell the box you had a 4:3 TV when in fact you had a 16:9 TV but that would be very weird. A 4:3 broadcast would be stretched out horizontally to fill the entire screen and a 16:9 broadcast squashed vertically.

Have you got some weird fascination for short fat people maybe Only reason I can think of you would want to do that???

Watch it properly, you'll get used to it, believe me

Do you work for Comet or Currys? They seem to like setting up TV's with dodgy squashed or stretched pictures.