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Originally Posted by gary_580
The whole point of this thread was to discuss why when the TV is displaying a picture in a format that the STB tells it too does it have black bars down the side.
Interestingly enough i noticed last night that if i watched the football on Eurosport or ITV analogue the black bars werent there. They were only there on ITV digital. Why was is it correctly displayed on Eurosport and not ITV digital.
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*sigh*
Eurosport and analogue ITV (and analogue BBC) show pictures in 4:3, the resolution they get from the host broadcaster.
The digital versions of both ITV and the BBC use a 16:9 display, because that's how they film the studio stuff, and so *the BBC and ITV themselves* add the bars on the right and left, to the broadcast. The STB isn't putting the bars in, it's just showing you the pictures it's receiving, black bars and all.
The side-issue that this thread got pulled onto was that actually, having bars left and right on a widescreen set is the correct way to view 4:3 content, rather than having it streched to fill the screen...