Subscribe RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or Trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to 'Is there a distorted picture on a widescreen TV? I just bought a 26″ Samsung LCD, and I could swear the faces'

1. Miss Chris - August 19th, 2009 at 8:24 pm

   Try changing the format. I bought a 62″ Mitsubishi and when I first turned it on, it was all distorted. I read the owner’s manual and found the button on the remote to change the format. You should be able to do the same thing. I think some of the options are stretch, stretch plus, standard, zoom,etc. But find the one that looks most appealing to you. I use standard and it looks fine.

2. jjki_11738 - August 19th, 2009 at 9:46 pm

   When a 16:9 set receives a 4:3 picture to display, it can either show it with black bands on either side, or stretch the picture to fit. You can shut off, or modify this feature in the set. Look through your menu and manual. You will find you’re probably set to an automatic mode that automatically stretches the picture. Set to a mode which displays the picture without any stretching. You can then choose whether you want to do the stretching. You have discovered the downside of these modes is to either distort the picture or cut parts of it off. On DVDs, you’ll find that some of them will have bars above and below the picture. You’ll find that some standard definition pictures that normally appear on 4:3 sets with bars above and below the picture will show up on yours with bars on all sides.
   Bottom line, assuming you can shut the stretching off, your set is working the way all HDTVs work.

3. Broadcast Engineer - August 20th, 2009 at 9:12 am

   When the 16 by 9 aspect screen displays 4 by 3 aspect video in FULL Screen mode it does make people’s faces look wider. What you need to do is go into the menu and set the mode to NORMAL or whatever your TV manufacturer calls it in the MENU.

   Full screens are more important for Plasmas to avoid the burn in that happens when only the 4 by 3 picture is displayed and black bars appear beside it. Basically the black bars are the part of the screen that does not age along with the rest of the screen. Hence burn in.

   If you only display 16 by 9 stuff on the 16 by 9 screen this does not happen but not all TV is 16 by 9 even on the HDTV channels (not all content is widescreen HDTV unless a channel is truly all HD all widescreen all the time).

Leave a Reply

Name

Email (will not be published)

Website