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Originally Posted by spiderplant
I'm still struggling to understand what the problem is. If you have told the STB you have a 16:9 TV, and you are viewing a 4:3 programme (eg QVC), then there should be black bars down the side. Maybe if someone posted some screenshots (direct off the TV, not via a capture card) that might help.
Skaven: For your 4:3 Hitachi TV, why have you told the STB you have a 16:9 TV?
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Normally you can have black bars down the side for 4:3 signals when the set top box is set to 16:9 but this is just down to the display setting on your TV. The problem forces the blacklines down the side from the set top box giving you no control about how you display it.
For example our box is connected to a tivo and the output from this can be displayed on the 16:9 TV downstairs or the 4:3 upstairs. normally if a 4:3 program has been recorded it will display okay on the 4:3 tv and on the 16:9 tv you have a choice of 4:3, 16:9 zoom or smart zoom depending on wether you like the right aspect ratio or a full screen. When this problem happens there is only one sensible way to watch the program on the 16:9 TV and its looks silly on the 4:3 TV.
Plus as mentioned before this must be a bug as the black lines dissapear if you change to 4:3 display and then back to 16:9.