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Anonymous Posted on Jul 27, 2011

Television scrfeen will not go back to normal, seems to be stuck on either a wide setting or stretch, have tried to go through controls and fix manually but it doesnt work

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Hi, Look in TV menu for settings of screen. ( aspect setting) 4:3 , wide screen mode , Normal (full), Zoom mode. You want Normal (full) mode. Good luck.

  • Anonymous Jul 31, 2011

    Um, Ok, let's try this again....
    My TV screen is too wide/tall....i.e., if there are subtitles I can only see the first sentence, people's heads get cut off etc. Like I said I went through the controls and tried to do it manually(set it to normal repeatedly) and nothing happened. Basically, what you just told me to do I had told you I had already done. SO, aside from going into the settings(which, sorry, is the obvious thing to do and has been done over and over again and didn't work or I wouldn't be asking) can you give me ANY indication as to what I might be able to do to fix the ratio on my screen? I sit the way the cables are set up in the back, at this point the only wa I even get a picture on the screen it needs to be set to the comp setting as opposed to the TV,Cable,AV settings....I'm just irritated so sorry if I seem crabby, I just want to watch a movie where I can see the heads of the people on the screen,grrrrr. Thanks.

  • Joseph Hoffmann Jul 31, 2011

    Hi, There is another thing you can try. Set the TV to 720p instead of 1080p. Hope this works for you. Good luck.

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