[GlenR]

I have two Panasonic TVs. A 50" plasma and a 32" LCD. Both are set to native resolution of 1920x1080@50Hz and are set on the TV to 16:9 asprct.

While the plasma is doing what it should and putting pillars along side 4:3 content and bars above and below widescreen content, the LCD is doing strange things with aspect ratio. 4:3 content is being stretched to 16:9 and wider stuff is being zoomed to fill the screen.

I have been through every menu setting on the LCD and compared with the plasma, but I can't see what is causing this. Does anybody know where to check to make sure it plays back in the correct aspect ratio according to the source?

The LCD is a TH-L32E30A model, input is HDMI-HDMI form the MC. The plasma uses DVI-HDMI from the MC. Both use nVidia cards.

[GlenR]

Found the problem. MC had been set to "Zoom 3", which is remove all black bars from around image. Not sure how it got set to that and I hadn't thought of it earlier as I never use the zoom settings. I leave everything in their correct aspect ratio. Nothing annoys me more than stretched/cropped images.

Anyway, all sorted now. :)

[dwebkombi]

GlenR, on 22 February 2012 - 12:05 AM, said:

Found the problem. MC had been set to "Zoom 3", which is remove all black bars from around image. Not sure how it got set to that and I hadn't thought of it earlier as I never use the zoom settings. I leave everything in their correct aspect ratio. Nothing annoys me more than stretched/cropped images.

Anyway, all sorted now. :)

D'oh! I should have thought of that... it has caught me out too in the past :blink:

[GlenR]

Yeah, it's a trap. :)

Don't know why they bother with those zoom functions. Who wants to distort their images by streching to fill the screen? It drives me mad when I see TVs set to do that.