12-21-2009, 07:05 AM
Doc wrote:
> And most of the channels display in (whatever the traditional
> aspect ratio was, maybe 4:3) leaving large black areas at both
> sides.
If it's most channels and not all then odds are that he's looking at the true picture.
Most tv programming is still in 4:3.
If he's one of those people who wants the image to fill the screen regardless of the correct aspect ratio then -- assuming that's the correct tv -- he should set the auto aspect ratio setting to "off" and then go to the "picture size" setting and choose one of the "TheaterWide" settings to stretch the image to fill the screen.
For whatever reason those setings didn't change everything.
My EyeTVs have made me acutely aware of which channels are HD as the window automatically resizes when you channel surf, and he was getting the 4:3 on a station that's always HD. Although according to what non-~Dan wrote there could be some 'true' image size that it's sensing . . .?