I need help with my new Samsung LCD TV and my Comcast HD box?

Question

I have a new 22 inch Samsung LCD HDTV. It is widescreen. Now, when I go to an HD channel and watch the HD shows, it fills the entire screen. But, whenever I go to a non-HD channel, I have black bars on the side of the screen. I have an HDTV downstairs, and whether it is on an HD channel or not, it fills the entire screen. Can anybody help me with this?

Answer 1

You should be able to rectify this problem by pressing the "Aspect Ratio" button on the remote.

Just check to make sure that the picture settings have been stored into the TVs memory.

This may have to be done through the Comcast box.

Answer 2

The setting on your TV downstairs is set to Full, it will stretch all picture to fill the entire screen, while your samsung is set to normal it means it will show exact picture with the source without stretching the picture. you can change the setup through menu I believe.

Answer 3

There are TWO aspect ratio settings....one on the cable box and one on the TV set......

Set the TV to FULL or STANDARD.....

Set the Cable box to 16:9 or Wide.....but be careful to NOTE that some cable boxes have TWO settings in them also.....

One setting for 16:9 pictures and a possible SECOND one to select the size of a 4:3 picture coming from the TV station....if that second setting is set to normal and not STRETCH then you get the pillar boxes......

And some of these d**n TV Stations think it's COOOL to lock in a 4:3 picture onto a 16:9  FRAME so you can't remove those d**n pillar boxes.....

Local TV stations do a lot of that.....

They SUCK!  

And all you can do is Call them and complain until they get so overwhelmed by so many upset customers, that they switch to WideScreen Video.....

That's how you get things done....