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wideview without zooming

Feb 1, 2009 5:08AM PST

when watching a HD channel that is not in full screen width, how do you expand it to full screen width without zooming ? when I hit wideview it cuts off the bottom of the picture, like the news on the bottom they have school closings and or a scrolling weather or sports scores, it cuts these items off

Thanks for any help

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widescreen ?
Feb 2, 2009 8:38PM PST

anybody have any help with this question ? How do you change from 16/9 to wideview without the picture zooming ?
Thank you

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aspect
Feb 5, 2009 8:02AM PST

rebs081,

When the incoming signal is in a 4:3 aspect ratio, you can't make that picture a wide picture without zooming. The native picture coming in might be able to be stretched, but that kind of processing has to be done with the cable/sat box, if that feature is available. Even then, your picture will be heavily distorted horizontally.

--HDTech

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thank you
Feb 5, 2009 10:22AM PST

thank you for your reply I appreciate it