BeoVision 8-40 image size

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congodog (archived)
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Posted December 23, 2010 at 21:47 GMT
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My new BeoVision 8-40 is taking the signal from the Comcast box too literally.  Previous TV, Sony Bravia, dynamically stretched the inbond signal's image to fill the screen no matter what size.

I cannot find a setting for such a result.  Any ideas?

Please advise and Happy Holidaze!

CongoDog

 

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elephant (archived)
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Posted December 24, 2010 at 00:04 GMT
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Have you added the soft key [FORMAT] to your Beo4?

You can use that to reshape your viewing experience:

e.g. [FORMAT] + 3 gives me a good FOXTEL image

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hgitzoller
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Posted December 24, 2010 at 02:41 GMT
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It depends on the input signal. I was used to this stretching from my former Samsung LCD. The first days with my Bv8-40 were somehow strange as 4:3 was just 4:3 and not stretched to 16:9.

Now I would not like this stretching back. I use format 3 and this is perfect for me.
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symmes (archived)
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Posted December 24, 2010 at 07:07 GMT
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With us cable, much easer to use the cable box remote to tell the cable box how to handle the signal via it's own settings menu. Ex. Settings~> video settings ~>480p~> options. Then you pick what to do with each the signal. I tend to leave all signals as broadcasted, and only the use beo4 to zoom with format 2, usually. FWIW, when I get confused on settings, I get everything back to default , use the cable box to handle all signal and configuration settings, then hide the cable box remote.
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symmes (archived)
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Posted December 24, 2010 at 07:08 GMT
#1922633
Echo........echo.......iPad.....
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Stan
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Posted December 24, 2010 at 11:27 GMT
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I have my comcast cable box set to "native" output.  I don't want the cheap cable box messing with the signal fed to my expensive TV.  In fact, I replaced my cable box and got weird green shadows on some shows until I set the cable box output to native (it may have been 480i or 480p by default).

I haven't changed the "format" setting of my tv, but, with the hdmi input, it automatically resizes based on the input.  I don't think it is just stretching either, or, perhaps it stretch algorithm is different than my previous TV .  It seems to be zooming in as well.  My only negative is that it takes a few seconds when I change channels that are not the same resolution.

Stan

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