Re: Can't change TV aspect ratio. Zoom won't work
- From: fernicus <fernicus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:51:01 -0700
Ok...an update. I updated MCE with 2005 rollout and can get the zoom function
to work. But here's the problem now. I know that my resolution is correct. My
pictures and everything else shows up correctly on my TV....no stretching or
distortion. It's just the cable TV that's stretching. It looks like MC or
maybe my video card is taking the 4:3 cable signal and automatically
stretching it somehow. I can change the TV with the 4 zoom options. The first
zoom option shows looks like what my cable should come as....the 4:3 ration
with the black bars on the left and right side which is what I want. That's
the zoom I have enabled and yet my cable picture is still stretched. And the
other 3 zooms are worse. I unmaximized MC so that it's just a window on my
desktop because the window shows up as the 4:3 ratio on the desktop. If I go
to Live TV then looking at it in that ratio, it's like it squished the ration
down so that there are black bars on the top and bottom. So it seems windows
is taking my cable TV signal and squishing it down to automatically make it
the 16:9 ratio. Ever heard of this before?
"Curious" wrote:
I think we need to go back to the beginning..
You need to get your PC desktop resolution and the resolution you are
outputting over DVI to your TV correctly the way you want first. Many Hats
will not accept non
ATSC resolutions over DVI/HDMI so if you have a 720P HDTV you should be
using 720p and if you have a 1080p native resolution HDTV you should be
using 1080i if your 1080p HDTV does not accept 1080p over HDMI.
Once that is working correctly we can then set up MC to match.
"fernicus" <fernicus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've had it set up for years now and it crashed so I've had to scrub the
hard
drive and start over. I set it up the same way as I had it before. I go
into
setting under MC and told it I had a rear projection LCD TV, connected
through the DVI port, and told it I had a wide screed 16:9 TV. The
resolution
is 1784 x 1004. Everything looks fine until I watch TV and then it's
streched
across the screen. My cable comes in at the 4:3 ration and that's what I'm
trying to get it to come through on my TV as.
"Curious" wrote:
Have you told MC that you have a 16:9 aspect ratio display and not a 4:3
aspect ratio display?
What resolution are you sending over what interface to your TV?
What resolution do you have your PC desktop to?
I think it is your TV doing the stretch and not your computer if the
above
settings are correct.
"fernicus" <fernicus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have media center hooked up to my widescreen TV. When I go to watch TV
on
it, the picture is streched to fill the enter widescreen. I'm trying to
correct the ratio so it's not streched out. When I right click and
choose
zoom, it doesn't give me the 4 options like the forums say...I just
have
the
one option that is selected.
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