It's just the way they are recorded for cinemas, I don't know why they can't just stick a format and stick to it either.

Philips however are releasing a cinema aspect one in a couple of months, it's super wide.
Useless for normal tv though.

Yeh, I think so, but I dont get why they are like that when I have a widescreen TV anyway, lose half the bastard picture :mad:

A lot of dvd's are like that, just the way they're filemd. Are you sure that's just not the way they are?

Top and Bottom

Is it giving you bars at the sides or just the top and bottom?

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Originally posted by John
Is your dvd set to output 16:9 instead of 4:3?

If it is just change that to stick at 16:9 on the TV also.

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It's becuase your TV is set to auto wide.

Our Samasung does it too, just set it to 16:9

TV isn't broadcast in anything but 16:9 or 4:3.

The only other one your tv will have is 14:9.

remember there isnt just 16:9 and 4:3 picture formats. I think the are about 5 main ones used. I have my samsung set to auto, and it occasionaly flicks formats when changing to a new channel on sky, then it picks the one to match broadcast format

It's not a fault, it's a feature, the new tv's have it as well.

For the original probelm, i'd still put money on it not being set to 16:9 somewhere along the line, otherwise something is faulty but I doubt it.

GF's dad's CRT does this, but then after a couple of seconds it finds the best picture for the TV :boggle: It was only a £200 26" CRT 3 years ago, surely the modern LCD's do this dont they?

Tv is set to 16:9 and no auto and the sky box settings are 16:9.

But still the tv changes from 16:9 to 4:3 when flicking sky channels (not all channels just some), sometimes it won't even change back to 16:9

Is your dvd set to output 16:9 instead of 4:3?

If it is just change that to stick at 16:9 on the TV also.

Save me opening a new one, why when I put a widescreen DVD in doesnt it recognise its on a widescreen and still play it in widescreen, giving me a smaller picture :mad:

Change it to 16:9 and not auto then it won't move.

its the way in which the programs are broadcast, you can extend them out again manually

Hi All,

Right my samsung tv for the past few months has been bugging he life out of me. When on the SKY tv channels it changes from 16:9 to 4:3 on various different channels. I then have to switch the power off on Sky and switch it back on and it corrects itself.

Does anyone know why this is doing this? Just would like it to stay as 16:9 all the time and now switch