Hello Since I got my starview box up and running I have on occasions a problem with my picture size on th t.v. . It is a wide screen tv and it constantly changes picture size from 16:4 to widescreen and back again ,flashing away all the time The only way i can stop it is by putting the screen on full wide. is this normal or am I doing something wrong as i never had a problem with thr ch**us box keeffe4
Sorry to say most channels are broadcast in 4:3 with letterboxing so look crap on a widescreen TV. As long as the Starview is set to 16:9 and the TV the same then that's the best you will get until the channels get their act together. In order to test your widescreen tv on 16:9 is to set the SV on fullscreen put it on bbc news24 which is correctly broadcast in 16:9 and this particular channel transmits the correct pids picked up by the box and sent to the tv which displays the full widescreen image. Many programs on cable are still transmitted as 4:3 or 14:9 not 16:9 and so if you are using a widescreen tv that is set for 16:9 the picture will not fill the screen. If you switch the SV to fullscreen the picture will then fill the widescreen tv but the image is sampled to fill the screen but is compressed and flattened. This is an incorrect setting and there wont be a fix for that apart from understanding that it is not meant to fill the screen unless the program is broadcast in 16:9. What is shown on your tv, is the settings on the tv adjusting for the SV's failings.
cheers bud' its just that i dont mind adjusting the picture every so often but its the fact that the picture starts jumping back and forward constantly until i start messing about with the two remotes myself and then after a while it seems to settle down. keeffe4
