Voom picture off to the left some
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Cool, definately works with the RCA set! I posted that problem a while back, nice to have it fixed!
Do you know if there is any setting for overscan? Would be nice to "squeeze" the picture to get it to fit in better.
-John
Do you know if there is any setting for overscan? Would be nice to "squeeze" the picture to get it to fit in better.
-John
rkr0923 said:
Perhaps this is correct to the extent that *at the moment* the software is only shipping on new STBs rather than being pushed to older ones, and that part of the reason it's not out yet is that it has bugs that cause incompatibility with older receivers. Just a speculation.
From what I can see the new STB software is pretty damn stable. I haven't had a lick of trouble yet out of it. Hope I didn't just jinx myself. 
Say I'm watching Disc-HD and I want to pull up the guide to see what else is on. It won't go back to channel 100 like the old software did. It goes back to DISC-HD on the guide.
Say I'm watching Disc-HD and I want to pull up the guide to see what else is on. It won't go back to channel 100 like the old software did. It goes back to DISC-HD on the guide.
Sounds like most of you with overscan and "to the left" problems need to have your sets calibrated. I'm sure that others are seeing HD for the first time and have no idea how to adjust their H-V settings. These are on your TV set, not on the VOOM box. And by the way, no STB can stretch a 4:3 HD picture because it is a 16:9 broadcast of HD and the black is part of the picture.
Shift not caused by TV set
I have a 65" Mit widescreen and a 17" Philips LCD widescreen. Both TV's exhibit the same SD picture shift to the right. This shift is present when display input is set for either component or s-video. Neither TV has DVI input. All of the Voom on-screen menus are displayed perfectly centered on the screen. When I press the Voom button, the current channel picture that is displayed in the upper right corner of the screen also shows the shift (picture is shifted to the right inside the black box). All channels that are broadcast in widescreen do not show any hint of shift. Only 4:3 pictures have shift. If the TV service menus are used to correct the shift then the Voom menus will also shift off the screen. The only fix I see is for Voom to recognize that this is a problem with their box and either do a firmware update or replace the boxes.
BTW, I have a Scientific Atlanta HD box and SD box for cable and neither box ever exhibited any picture shift on either of my TV sets.
So far I am very happy with the HD portion of Voom
but think the SD picture shift needs to be fixed. 
jbcaro
I have a 65" Mit widescreen and a 17" Philips LCD widescreen. Both TV's exhibit the same SD picture shift to the right. This shift is present when display input is set for either component or s-video. Neither TV has DVI input. All of the Voom on-screen menus are displayed perfectly centered on the screen. When I press the Voom button, the current channel picture that is displayed in the upper right corner of the screen also shows the shift (picture is shifted to the right inside the black box). All channels that are broadcast in widescreen do not show any hint of shift. Only 4:3 pictures have shift. If the TV service menus are used to correct the shift then the Voom menus will also shift off the screen. The only fix I see is for Voom to recognize that this is a problem with their box and either do a firmware update or replace the boxes.
BTW, I have a Scientific Atlanta HD box and SD box for cable and neither box ever exhibited any picture shift on either of my TV sets.
So far I am very happy with the HD portion of Voom
but think the SD picture shift needs to be fixed. jbcaro
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