I lost my remote, and the picture is smaller than the actual screen by about 2-3- inches on all sides. how do i enlarge the picture to fit the screen?

You did not list your brand of TV, so this may not be applicable in your case: on a Samsung Smart TV, use the remote to open the "tools" menu; the picture size and other picture options will appear on the upper right screen. However, please note that some cable/satellite channels do not fill up large screen TVs no matter what tools or settings are available. The "Chiller" channel on my set always has a border; all the other channels fit the screen accordingly.

Many units will self adjust the image size, but the size of the image you will see depends on what size it was originally recorded in. You can change it in the settings of the TV but most likely it will not go bigger if it was shot smaller.

Most Emerson remote controls have a "FORMAT" button. Each button press cycles through TV Screen aspect ratio choices, such as Normal, Movie Expand, Wide, Zoom, etc. Pick one that fills your screen. You will probably have to change this setting again, depending on the signal source or channel selected.

The button cycles through the choices in a loop, so you can always get back to Normal.

your select button on your remote, then you just go to exspand.

Hello tbcb83,

Welcome, and thank you for using FixYa!

Your issue is most like caused by the video source you are veiwing being at a smaller resolution than the TV can actually display. Example: If your TV can output at 1366w x 768h and your video source is only 640w x 480h, then you will see black boarders on the left and right side of the screen.
The video source is smaller than the screen display limit, and unless your TV is set to "Auto Fit" your will have to use the optional settings of "Wide", "Panaoramic", or "Zoom" to get the image to fit the screen, or as close as possible.

Have a great day!

Press Copy until Reduce/Enlarge appears in the top line of the dis
The following options are available in the Reduce/Enlarge menu.
you will have three choices.
Reduce/Enlarge
Actual Size
Custom 100%
Full Page 91%
Legal > Ltr 72%
Also:
Use Photo Fit to Page when you want to automatically enlarge your original
photo to fill the printable area of the paper size loaded in the paper tray.
Photo Fit to Page only enlarges original photos that are standard photo sizes. The
standard photo sizes are as follows:
• 3.5 by 5 inches (9 by 13 cm)
• 4 by 6 inches (10 by 15 cm)
• 5 by 7 inches (13 by 18 cm)
• 6 by 8 inches (15 by 20 cm)
• 8 by 10 inches (25 by 25 cm)
For originals containing text or photos that are not a standard size, use Reduce/
Enlarge.
Manual is HERE Copy functions start on page 27.

tap twice with three fingers. It really works!

You possibly have the screen set to the 4:3 ratio. On the remote control use the aspect ratio button to toggle through the different size screen formats eg 16:9 etc. this will enlarge the picture to fill the screen.

Reset the aspect ratio/ picture size from your remote or from the menu.

There should be a right and left alighnment on the OSD menu or an auto button to centre the desktop. Also check your screen resolution as 1280x1024 or 1024x768 should be fine.