Comments on: HELP HD question.?

By: TV TECH-man®

TV TECH-man® — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:05:59 +0000

ALL GREAT SHORTCUTS……

BUT…….

They’re shortcuts…that means you have to press the star button on each and EVERY Low Def channel you watch…..

You want it to stretch ALL shows permanently???

Of course you do….

So, go into the Menu, select the SETUP mode
Find the Aspect Ratio or the VIDEO OUTPUT selection
Go into that, and you will find an HD and a SD selection……
The SD selection is also known as 4:3……
Select it and set it for 4:3 STRETCH –no 4:3 ZOOM, no 4:3 STANDARD……

4:3 STRETCH…..

Now all your 4:3 pictures will AUTOMATICALLY stretch the picture to fill the screen…..

I don’t know why the HD Dish installers set it up that way but they do….and I have to come in after them and fix it…..
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Over 25 years servicing TV sets.

By: Sal

Sal — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:47:59 +0000

On your Dish settings, you have to adjust the resolution for 480p to 4:3 stretch (so non-HD channels will stretch to fit screen).
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By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:39:59 +0000

We had the same problem. On the remote push the * button. You can also press menu 6->8 and adjust the aspect ratio. The * button is much easier.
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My wife figured it out….

By: wowbango

wowbango — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:58:59 +0000

High Definition programming is shot in 16 x 9 Widescreen. Your standard programming is not, you probably have two black bars on each side of the picture. Now, you can make it so that it fills the whole screen, but what it will end up doing, is stretching the picture and the picture will be somewhat distorted. Go to the settings on your dish receiver, under display or HD settings, there should be something that says "native display." More than likely that is checked, meaning that the shows are shown in the ratio that they’re filmed. If you uncheck that or turn that off, it will let you stretch the picture to fill the whole screen. You might also see something that says "Aspect Ratio" and there will be a few different options in there that you can try out and just choose the best one you like. I think on DISH remotes there’s like a star * button that does this without going through the menus, but I’m not sure. Let me know if you have any questions.
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