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Originally Posted by carlwaring
There should be a setting somewhere on your VM STB that will correct this. However, I cannot advise you where to look as I don't know which STB you have. It'll be in the "settings" somewhere.
You should be able to chose either "widescreen", which will give you black bars across the top and bottom of the picture, or "centre cutout" which will give cover your screen but will cut off the edges.
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I don't have an STB, and Virgin Media say I can't have one, and if they did give me one it would be no use. I'm not sure I believe them
What should I look for on a STB that might allow me to do analog-in/analog-out and convert 4:3 -> 16:9? I live next door to a maplins, might they have anything that could help? Is there any chance their bargain basement £14.99 STB could do the job?
Are there any stores with electronics wizards in MK?
The maplins staffer I asked just looked blank - he didn't know anything about the MK analog network even though the store is in MK! They didn't have an in-store connection (unlike John Lewis - they had an in-store connection and understood my question, even though they couldn't suggest a solution...)
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Originally Posted by spiderplant
The transmitted letterbox format would work for you, but would give a black border or zoomed picture for people with widescreen TVs, which are the majority now.
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I see. I just assumed that modern widescreen TVs would have the ability to cope with any modern transmitted format. Guess that was a silly assumption
Looks like a devious plan to get everyone to buy new TVs. "They" realised they had made a big mistake in making CRTs that could chug along happily for many decades!
At the moment I've put the TV on the floor, and tilted the top of the screen forward, this reduces the stick insect effect to bearable levels, but i don't view this as a permanent solution...
Google tells me that some character is selling goggles that force the image into 16:9... and you get to look like Biggles... but I might worry the relatives if I take that approach...