Just bought a new TV with a16:9 aspect ratio. Now the people look to wide. I have Cable .What's wrong?

Question

Just bought a new TV with a16:9 aspect ratio. Now the people look to wide. I have Cable .What's wrong?

Answer 1

On your cable set-top box, go to settings and specify you have a 16:9 TV

On your TV use the aspect key on the remote to change the aspect ratio.

Answer 2

When going from a standard TV with a nearly square ratio of 4:3 to a 16:9 TV you have to make some changes. First let's start with cable that's standard def. Your TV is taking the image and stretching it to fill the screen. You can fix this two ways, one there should be a button on the TV remote

Depending on who made it, the button can be labeled different things, but it will zoom, stretch or squeeze depending on the source. The best way is to look at what input the cable comes in on the TV.

NEXT: Go into your TV menu, dig in there in picture options or a tool box. There will be an option for wide 16:9 or standard 4:3. for that input.

Choose the 4:3 option if you don't have HD cable. the TV will assume everything is standard. You will have black or grey bars on the side, this is normal.

For your DVD player, go into the menu, tell the player to output in 16:9 since most DVDs are wide, and so everything looks correct. Some widescreen movies will still show small black bars top and bottom some will not, this is normal, not all movies are shot in the same aspect ratio. Let me know how it goes.