Stretching issue Hi guys, I have a compound problem for you, and I tend to be wordy (sorry). First off, I bought my TV without the original remote or manual, so I don't know how to (or if I even can) change the stretch mode. Basically, when viewing a 16 x 9 DVD, the picture appears stretched vertically in the center. It seems to be using the 4x3 stretch mode (which looks fantastic on my dish signal) on a 16x9 signal. I was under the impression that you could not configure the picture mode for a component input, so is this actually a screen problem? Is there a service mode type adjustment to be made, or do I just need to hit a special button on the original remote? Also, and most likely related, upon warming up for several minutes the TV makes a horrible high-frequency whine (70% of the time or so) that lasts about a minute and a half. I was hoping it was a dried capacitor making 20 kHz switch noise, but no caps show bulging or rupture. It is such a piercing, and overwhelming sound, I can't start to pinpoint the origin. Occasionally, the whine oscillates in frequency a bit, and the picture width oscillates with it. I was told it was likely the flyback, but I thought the flyback ran off the HOT, and a horizontally oscillating picture would be a funky HOT output right? A bad HOT output could actually explain the problem above. Could the HOT's source voltage be oscillating? Oh yeah, the whine will sometimes go away after a solid bang.... Not good practice, but diagnostically significant. So basically, where would the whine be coming from, and how do I get my DVD picture to not look "skinny" in the middle?

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