Sony BRAVIA KDL-40V2500 40 in. LCD HDTV "tv picture stretched" Questions

picture can be had on the "normal" setting for the tv, but it is shrunken with borders on all four sides. If I select wide zoom, the picture is distorted/stretched with thin bars at the top and bottom

picture cut off Just bought this TV. Watching football today and the picture itself is great but the graphics (score, stattracker, etc) are cut off. check your picture default settings. It may be set ...

TV will stretch the picture and you will see more defects than if you're watching it on normal picture. But if you are seeing the same problem when watching HD picture it needs to be serviced try this

Tv KDL 40V2500 when I try and watch in Normal picture mode then it generates sharper picture quality but same time smaller screen appears (square screen) only wide mode give me full 40 inch appearance

...tv picture to fill my whole screen on my Sony \Bravia using the remote (for Sony) press menu/tv settings and scroll thru zoom, zoom2, wide,panaramic and stretch... now also using the remote for the ...

...picture what do you suggest to fix this, it only does this on certain channels from my direct tv. TV is about 3 yrs old Your format is wrong. Make sure that your tv is in full mode and your direct tv ...

...tv has black horizontal line middle of screen, fades away about 80% of the way from right to left. #2 picture is blurry and the colors stretch down in horizontal lines, then picture goes back to ...

...picture format, or aspect ratio. The tv may be in the zoom mode the way you describe it. There is likely an option in the menu to allow the unit to automatically set the format based opon the signal ...

...this problem. Also, if I cycle the power off/on the TV I get my picture at 1080i like I should. Any suggestions? Set your 4:3 to stretch mode, see this link ...

...become "morphed" and mishaped. also if the tv is set to wide all the time, then this will cause a stretching effect. set the tv to auto picture size or "smart" as it is on sony's, with auto 16:9