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So, I go out and buy this 46" Sony LCD television. The one just below the XBR. Nice set. And I upgrade my cable package to include HD stations. $2K for the set, $10.95/mo for the HD service. But in many cases while viewing HI DEF stations, my 46" tv is giving me a picture slightly SMALLER than my old 32" Sony tube model. They cut off the top 4" or so, the bottom 4" and a couple inches off each side and leaves me with a picture smaller than the one I replaced. Is this like a video practical joke on all of us or what? Maybe I don't understand video, but why do they do this? Yes, I can stretch or zoom the picture, but then it's not really hi-def anymore, is it? Television seems to still be a decade behind audio....annoying.
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I really cannot figure out why they do it!
On my 42" plasma, they run a widscreen picture inside the 4:3 box with the top and bottom black bars in the 4:3 box. Yeah I can "zoom" but is just seems so stupid!
Hmm, the "local" (Buffalo) PBS (if that's what you mean) is pretty good for not doing that here. Their source quality isn't that good though, rarely true HD. The worst for mixing ARs is the national Canadian broadcaster the CBC, and they have the $$ and technical expertise to know better. They do a lot of strange things with their HD feeds, especially with sound mixes. HD pic is good quality but sometimes covers maybe 30% of the screen area.
...doesn't mean they're always showing HD content. I see this many times on some channels, esp. MTV-HD (my daughter watches it). They are showing letterboxes widescreen HD content in a small window.
Nothing we can do about it until all (or most) content on these channels is actually HD.
Doug
If so, your cable box may not be properly configured. HD cable boxes have a setup menu that allows you to set the max resolution and screen size the cable box will output. I got one from the cable company that had been set to 16:9, but limited to 480i. I had to reconfigure to get higher resolution. I've also seen them set to 4:3.
You might want to investigate this.
Thanks for the tips guys. I'll look into this settings thing. Knowing Time Warner, it's something they are doing or not doing.
If it is a settings issue with your cable box, then you can't really blame Time Warner. They have to choose a set of default settings and not everyone has the same displays, or uses the same settings on their display. Some people like 4:3 aspect material expanded to full screen and some like it displayed accurately with bars at the side. Some DVDs are mastered to display a wide screen movie on a 4:3 screen and if shown with the picture in the right aspect ratio end up with bars top and bottom and on each side as well.
With any source component the manufacturer chooses a group of default settings based on what they think will suit the bulk of the purchasers. No set of default settings will work for everyone, that's why there are options. If a set of defaults did work ideally for everyone there'd be no need for the device to offer options for those settings.
It's a fact of life that you often have to tinker with a device's settings in order to get the result you want, or the best result which may often be something different from what you want :-)
David Aiken
Buddy's HD Sony 64" does the same thing and he often doesn't notice until I jab him about it. "Hey, fill the screen". "Oh yeah". It's already small enough as it is. :)
My PJ also has setting choices which I've set as my "optional" key on the remote. It swaps between 16:9, 4:3 and another one or two choices.
Just a thought, I might be totally wrong here.
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