On my Westinghouse LCD I can see that many of the new HD channels are coming in at 1920x1080i. Some of them, like ESPN were coming in at 1280x720, even the new ones. But I can force the resolution to 1920x1080i on all HD channels if I just disable every other resolution via the Directv box. I'm using HDMI as a connection -- is there any way for Directv to do 1920x1080p?
I mainly disabled all resolution except high definition because at anything else (480i or 480p), the menu screen was so bright and washed out, I couldn't stand it. Plus I was trying to find a way to fix some channels that were stretched to widescreen all the time, it was so annoying. As previously mentioned, you have to change from FULL to STANDARD for those channels to go back to normal. The only problem is that if I change to a 4:3 channel, I have to change back to FULL because the Westinghouse 37" shows no overscan on STANDARD, and that in turn results in some channels showing garbage at the top or bottom of the no overscan picture.
I mainly disabled all resolution except high definition because at anything else (480i or 480p), the menu screen was so bright and washed out, I couldn't stand it. Plus I was trying to find a way to fix some channels that were stretched to widescreen all the time, it was so annoying. As previously mentioned, you have to change from FULL to STANDARD for those channels to go back to normal. The only problem is that if I change to a 4:3 channel, I have to change back to FULL because the Westinghouse 37" shows no overscan on STANDARD, and that in turn results in some channels showing garbage at the top or bottom of the no overscan picture.
