New D* customer

[wtootle228]

Is there a way to remove the black bars on top and on the sides of the standard definition channels? Thanks.

 

[jcrandall]

Sure, hit Info, move across over to Audio/Video, and change the format. I use 1080i and Stretch format, so anything SD is stretched to fill the screen. That said, I can't remember the last time I watched a SD channel on DirecTV.

WELCOME!

 

[twizt3dsist3r]

Keep in mind if you are watching something filmed in 4:3 broadcast on an HD channel such as an older movie or some old cartoons on locals weekend morning, the black vertical bars are not going to go away as that is the way the program is broadcast, unless you zoom on the tv itself, but then your guide and aspect are going to be off. Same thing with the horizontal black bars on SD channels for Letterbox filmed programming.

 

[peds48]

So to clear things up, if you are watching SD content on an HD channel, you can't remove the bars vis DIRECTV settings, you can zoom using your TVs zoom, pic size, etc options. If the channel is strictly SD, then you can set up the DIRECTV receiver to stretch the picture, but why????

 

[Drucifer]

The thing with changing the Format is that it settings are across all channels and the setting only goes in one direction.

 

[peds48]

I have seen some TVs that have an auto zoom setting that stretches SD picture automatically. But Directv SD picture is already bad stretching only makes that much worse.