I have a 61inch mitsubishi rojection screenTV and was told not to view letterbox, but most of my chanels have gone to widescreen and I can only view them in Letterbox with a large strip of black at the top and bottom-I think I will get that burned into my screen. What can I do.I have Dishnetwork and they do not have an answer

Movies that are created for "Wide Screen" viewing show up in letterbox on your TV. If you go to a theatre you notice it is a big rectangle. To be able to fit all of the widescreen movie on a TV it has to make the height smaller.


Because many people want to see the "complete" Movie, the "Letterbox Format" came about. I do NOT know what the word "Letterbox" actually means, or how that term was chosen. To get the complete Rectangle into that Square, they discovered that they could shrink the entire rectangle to fit that square. Meaning, what used to take 2 inches on your screen, now may only take 1.75 inches. Now a problem arrose. When you shrink the WIDTH to fit your dinky Square of a TV, the HEIGHT also has to be shrunk along with it, or else you're stretching the image as if it was on silly-putty ("Compression"). When the image was shrunk to fit the TV Screen, they were left with a gap at the top and bottom of the screen. So they simply fill it in with "Black". I guess the only alternative was to leave it snowy.

That is completely normal. Most Youtube Videos are posted in a 4:3 Letterbox Format. If it was filmed or uploaded in a 16:9 Widescreen format you would not see those bars. Try this HD Widescreen Format video link and let me know if the bars are gone: http://youtu.be/yZgcjOJnk0k

Owner of Woodland Park Computers
www.woodlandparkcomputers.com

Hi, The " Size " of a flat panel tv ( when not in zoom mode ) is actually controlled by your programming, if using an hdmi cable from an Hd/Blu-ray player-then whatever format the disc was recorded in is what you'll see ( widescreen/letterbox ) black bars at top & bottom of scrteen ) or full screen. Local over the air digital H.D. brodcast's from networks varie from full screen to letterbox-satellite and cable that are standard definition will almost always letterbox a screen for you. Using T.V.s tuner may alleviate most of the issues. Good luck and I hope this helped. Prodzilla

On the DVD recorder remote: press function menu button: enter setup screen - scroll down to connection - TV aspect - select either 16:9 / 4:3 Letterbox / 4:3 Pan&scan. If you are using an older TV which is not a widescreen, set the aspect to '4:3 Letterbox'.

You should now be able to view your DVD movies from this machine through a 4:3 standard TV in letterbox format. (some DVDs do not allow pan&scan so letterbox or widescreen is recommended). Very rare that a DVD title is not compatible with 4:3 TVs. I assume your deck is set to output 16:9 aspect by default.

I find this is the cheapest and easiest solution and can save lots of dollars in service call-outs. You can always reset the unit back to shipping condition later if you need to, or in the rare case of digital channels disappearing from your tuner memory.

This model is HD but requires a box and is only 4x3 in HD. That means you will see selected HD channels in letterbox and many others may be formatted that way by the box you are using.

Their later sets were also HD but had 4x3 AND 16x9 which is full screen in HD provided the box is sending it that way.

I do not think anything is wrong with your set--it is just the way it was intended to work.

IF this told you something you did not know, rate this solution as very helpful as I do this here for free.


SD TECH

Not ur tv it the dvd format,tries it with other dvd.

Your LCD TV uses backlights and they can be slightly visible when viewing a letterbox movie.  However, if the light is really bleeding into the black, there could be a problem, but mosty this is common.

Hi pooing stone,

You may sometimes find that even with a television referred to as “widescreen,” widescreen movies still have letterboxing.

This is likely because the movie you are playing is still in the ratio used at a theater. While most televisions are 4:3 for the more square-type or 16:9 for widescreen, a theater screen is much wider still. Unless the movie has been reformatted specifically to 16:9 for your television, you will either see letterboxing or lose portions of the picture by zooming in.

If a movie is available in several ratios, I suggest thinking of all the options before buying. Although purchasing a movie reformatted to 16:9 will prevent the black bars, purchasing it without any reformatting of the size will prevent you losing part of the picture.

FYI: It is very common with Blu-Ray Discs that widescreen means original size, not 16:9.

Thank you,
Jason,
Go Ahead. Use Us.

This user manual should help!
http://portablemedia.manualsonline.com/manuals/mfg/wharfedale_international/l15t11wa_l15t11wc_l19t11wa_l19t11wc_l20t11wa_l20t11wc_l19t12wa_l19t12wc_l20t12wa_l20t12wc_l22t11wa_l22t11wc.html

THERE IS REALLY NOTHING YOU CAN DO as your settings conflict with each unit connected