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Rotor Feb 15th 2010 11:11 pm

Sky ,Screen Cropped.
 
I was given a Sky decoder box which works fine except the edges are cropped , its missing around 5% left and right , its plugged into a 42" Plasma.

Anyone know why?:confused:

jimenato Feb 15th 2010 11:36 pm

Re: Sky ,Screen Cropped.
 

Originally Posted by Rotor (Post 8346602)
I was given a Sky decoder box which works fine except the edges are cropped , its missing around 5% left and right , its plugged into a 42" Plasma.

Anyone know why?:confused:

Mine does the same (37" LCD). I always assumed it was the telly rather than the sky box.

(God it's embarrassing to admit you've only got a 37" when the other bloke's got 42)

Over to The Guy hopefully

Rotor Feb 15th 2010 11:38 pm

Re: Sky ,Screen Cropped.
 

Originally Posted by jimenato (Post 8346681)
Mine does the same (37" LCD). I always assumed it was the telly rather than the sky box.

(God it's embarrassing to admit you've only got a 37" when the other bloke's got 42)

Over to The Guy hopefully

Sorry for embarasing you:rofl::rofl: ,I dont think its the TV as all was fine with my old Sky box.

Fred James Feb 15th 2010 11:47 pm

Re: Sky ,Screen Cropped.
 
I seem to remember from the days when I had a Sky box that there is a setting for aspect ratio and it needs to be set to wide screen mode.

Maybe it's that.

Rotor Feb 16th 2010 12:24 am

Re: Sky ,Screen Cropped.
 

Originally Posted by Fred James (Post 8346713)
I seem to remember from the days when I had a Sky box that there is a setting for aspect ratio and it needs to be set to wide screen mode.

Maybe it's that.

I`ll have a look through the set up menu,:thumbup:

Ta

Rotor

lynnxa Feb 16th 2010 3:19 am

Re: Sky ,Screen Cropped.
 

Originally Posted by jimenato (Post 8346681)
Mine does the same (37" LCD). I always assumed it was the telly rather than the sky box.

(God it's embarrassing to admit you've only got a 37" when the other bloke's got 42)

Over to The Guy hopefully


Originally Posted by Rotor (Post 8346687)
Sorry for embarasing you:rofl::rofl: ,I dont think its the TV as all was fine with my old Sky box.

so you're saying that size does matter?

The Guy Feb 16th 2010 5:30 am

Re: Sky ,Screen Cropped.
 
Sky Remote:
Services, 4, 1
change picture settings from 4:3 (normal old square TVs) to 16:9 -

16:9 is the widescreen mode.

(4:3LB is letter box mode)

you will also have to make sure your TV is set to widescreen mode also.

note not all channels on SKy are in widescreen so some hcannels will squash and stretch some programmes.

Check by using a channel like QVC of Sky / BBC News and look at the locations of on screen logos,.....

Rotor Feb 17th 2010 12:22 am

Re: Sky ,Screen Cropped.
 

Originally Posted by The Guy (Post 8347800)
Sky Remote:
Services, 4, 1
change picture settings from 4:3 (normal old square TVs) to 16:9 -

16:9 is the widescreen mode.

(4:3LB is letter box mode)

you will also have to make sure your TV is set to widescreen mode also.

note not all channels on SKy are in widescreen so some hcannels will squash and stretch some programmes.

Check by using a channel like QVC of Sky / BBC News and look at the locations of on screen logos,.....

Many Thanks:thumbsup:

Rotor


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