722 Aspect Question

[stimpson]

Finally able to get upgraded to HD. Cut down a few trees, installed a second dish dedicated for 129 only. The HD picture quality is better than I ever imagined on my older 51" Sony 1080i Wega. In fact, it's awsome. SD picture quality is better as well, with the exception on the SD channels not filling the screen. Is there a setting on the 722 that I can change to correct this, or is that what the format button on the remote does? I would have explored these options myself but it was late last night when I finished setting everything up. Didn't have time to play. Thanks in advance.

 

[garys]

"*" button located below the "7" on your remote. It is the Format button and will change the aspect ratio on any channel. You can set it to stretch for the sd channels and this will fill the screen for all the sd channels but not the HD ones. HD channels are handled separately from the sd ones. (I know I did not explain this quite right, there should be a section in the manual, probably under using the remote control.

 

[stimpson]

Thanks for the reply. Do I have to do it every time, or is there a way to set it to do automatic?

 

[jsaxon2]

If you set any SD channel to stretch, every SD channel you change to after that will also be stretch until you change the format again. The HD channels will not be stretched, they have their own format, so if you set any HD channel to Normal, every HD channel will be normal until you change it.

 

[Cold Irons]

Of course, you'll be paying a premium price to watch a DISTORTED picture.

I'll never understand why people choose this over the black bars ....

Too each his own, I guess....

 

[KAB]

Of course, you'll be paying a premium price to watch a DISTORTED picture.

I'll never understand why people choose this over the black bars ....

Too each his own, I guess....

:up:up:up

 

[jsaxon2]

I've heard of some people having ghosting black bars on older plasma screens so they need to have it stretched. I agree though, watch it the way it was meant to be watched. Don't distort it.

 

[stimpson]

I'm not going to touch the HD format. They are great the way they are. I will only try stretching the SD channels. Thanks for the help all.