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I’ve just upgraded to theFVP4000T and I’m quite happy with it. However, quite a lot of the programmes are shown in 4:3 aspect ratio. I am watching in 16:9 before the programmes start, but as soon as it does start, the screen is cropped with black bands down the sides.
I’ve tried to alter the settings but nothing seems to work. Any help will be appreciated
Hi welcome to our forum. The programmes will be 4:3, you can’t show 4:3 full screen on a 16:9 display unless you distort the picture making people look short and fat and circles into ovals.
Hi Graham, thanks for that, but it looks that a lot of the programmes are broadcast in 4:3 ratio on my FVp4000T, where my HDR FOX T2 and Panasonic DVD recorder plays them in full screen.
On theFVP4000, Frasier on channel 4 and the Drama channel are 4:3. Other channels are in letterbox. I would just like the option to watch in full screen if I wished to do so, and decide which is more distracting, a distorted picture or the black bands on either side of the picture.
Best regards,
Allan
I have just found the Zoom function on the + (plus) button which has sorted my dilemma.
Sorry to bother anyone who has read my messages of ineptitude.
Regards
If you have the same options as I do with my 2000T then in settings go to video> screen ratio> set to 4.3 and Display Format to auto.
That will solve your problem though it is a faff and drives me nuts. As an alternative if you have a Panasonic TV (other TVs are available
) then select aspect ratio on the remote and 4.3 FULL. That also works.Obviously you will have to do the reverse for a modern 16.9 broadcast. Why Humax can’t sort this out to be handled automatically e.g. like our Panasonic TV does is beyond me.
I can never understand why some people want to watch programmes in the wrong format.
Faust – 1 hour ago »
If you have the same options as I do with my 2000T then in settings go to video> screen ratio> set to 4.3 and Display Format to auto.
That will solve your problem though it is a faff and drives me nuts. As an alternative if you have a Panasonic TV (other TVs are available
) then select aspect ratio on the remote and 4.3 FULL. That also works.Obviously you will have to do the reverse for a modern 16.9 broadcast. Why Humax can’t sort this out to be handled automatically e.g. like our Panasonic TV does is beyond me.
I think most HD TVs let you set how you want aspect dealt with, for each device. Mine does (Samsung)
brian – 44 minutes ago »
I can never understand why some people want to watch programmes in the wrong format.
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+1. At the very least it reduces the resolution of content that may well be poor quality in the first place.
brian – 5 hours ago »
I can never understand why some people want to watch programmes in the wrong format.
I could argue why you would want to buy a large screen TV then lose a good third of the real estate to black. I may as well have stuck to my old 4.3 CRT if that was how I wanted to view TV.
At least on the Freesat boxes you have the option of Anamorphic.
Faust – 18 hours ago »
brian – 5 hours ago »
I can never understand why some people want to watch programmes in the wrong format.
I could argue why you would want to buy a large screen TV then lose a good third of the real estate to black. I may as well have stuck to my old 4.3 CRT if that was how I wanted to view TV.
At least on the Freesat boxes you have the option of Anamorphic.
I would have thought that most people who “buy a large screen TV” (presumably Wide Screen?), appreciate and enjoy watching TV programmes and Films, so why on earth would they want to ruin the viewing experience by viewing things in a format that they were never intended to be viewed in? 🙄
brian – 4 hours ago »
Faust – 18 hours ago »
brian – 5 hours ago »
I can never understand why some people want to watch programmes in the wrong format.
I could argue why you would want to buy a large screen TV then lose a good third of the real estate to black. I may as well have stuck to my old 4.3 CRT if that was how I wanted to view TV.
At least on the Freesat boxes you have the option of Anamorphic.
I would have thought that most people who “buy a large screen TV” (presumably Wide Screen?), appreciate and enjoy watching TV programmes and Films, so why on earth would they want to ruin the viewing experience by viewing things in a format that they were never intended to be viewed in? 🙄
I actually posed this question at work today and although not scientific the results were interesting. As soon as I mentioned the issue people were shouting across the office how they hated it when the old programmes ‘got shrunken’ on their large screen TVs.
There are thirty people on our floor and every single one of them said they altered the format in one way or another to make them full screen.
Taken as a straw poll it appears Mr & Mrs Average don’t like large black bars. As I said though, not scientific.
Thanks Faust, that’s exactly what I think. I find that having that much of the screen missing is far more distracting than the horrors of circles being elliptical, and people looking more squat than they are.
It also doesn’t help that during commercial breaks, the screen reverts back to full size, as if to let you know what you’re missing.
Faust – 1 day ago »
If you have the same options as I do with my 2000T then in settings go to video> screen ratio> set to 4.3 and Display Format to auto.
That will solve your problem though it is a faff and drives me nuts. As an alternative if you have a Panasonic TV (other TVs are available
) then select aspect ratio on the remote and 4.3 FULL. That also works.Obviously you will have to do the reverse for a modern 16.9 broadcast. Why Humax can’t sort this out to be handled automatically e.g. like our Panasonic TV does is beyond me.
I don’t see how you can blame Humax if you the operator decides to set up your box incorrectly. Surely common sense suggests that if you are feeding a 16:9 TV then you should set up the Humax, or any box, to output in 16:9 format. If you are not happy with the result then usually the TV has many aspect ratio options for you to get your desired result. If you are happy with short fat people then so be it but it is not the world as I know it.
Biggles – 12 hours ago »
Faust – 1 day ago »
If you have the same options as I do with my 2000T then in settings go to video> screen ratio> set to 4.3 and Display Format to auto.
That will solve your problem though it is a faff and drives me nuts. As an alternative if you have a Panasonic TV (other TVs are available
) then select aspect ratio on the remote and 4.3 FULL. That also works.Obviously you will have to do the reverse for a modern 16.9 broadcast. Why Humax can’t sort this out to be handled automatically e.g. like our Panasonic TV does is beyond me.
I don’t see how you can blame Humax if you the operator decides to set up your box incorrectly. Surely common sense suggests that if you are feeding a 16:9 TV then you should set up the Humax, or any box, to output in 16:9 format. If you are not happy with the result then usually the TV has many aspect ratio options for you to get your desired result. If you are happy with short fat people then so be it but it is not the world as I know it.
The HDR 1000s handles this situation by selecting anamorphic, my Panasonic equipment shows me full screen whatever I’m watching (automatically).
Only the Humax 2000T has this bizarre way of displaying media. As far as I can see it’s yet another cost saving measure in an already stripped bare product.
I am pretty confident that I am in the majority (of ordinary folk) regarding this issue.
Faust – 8 hours ago »
Biggles – 12 hours ago »
Faust – 1 day ago »
If you have the same options as I do with my 2000T then in settings go to video> screen ratio> set to 4.3 and Display Format to auto.
That will solve your problem though it is a faff and drives me nuts. As an alternative if you have a Panasonic TV (other TVs are available
) then select aspect ratio on the remote and 4.3 FULL. That also works.Obviously you will have to do the reverse for a modern 16.9 broadcast. Why Humax can’t sort this out to be handled automatically e.g. like our Panasonic TV does is beyond me.
I don’t see how you can blame Humax if you the operator decides to set up your box incorrectly. Surely common sense suggests that if you are feeding a 16:9 TV then you should set up the Humax, or any box, to output in 16:9 format. If you are not happy with the result then usually the TV has many aspect ratio options for you to get your desired result. If you are happy with short fat people then so be it but it is not the world as I know it.
The HDR 1000s handles this situation by selecting anamorphic, my Panasonic equipment shows me full screen whatever I’m watching (automatically).
Only the Humax 2000T has this bizarre way of displaying media. As far as I can see it’s yet another cost saving measure in an already stripped bare product.
I am pretty confident that I am in the majority (of ordinary folk) regarding this issue.
I disagree, I only know one person who likes stretchyvision. A straw poll of my friends and colleagues reveals a preference for material to be shown in as close as possible to the original aspect ratio.
To force the screen to be filled means either adding in something to fill the space or lopping off the top and bottom.
So you most definitely do not speak for me. Using your logic I am confident that the vast majority of people don’t care or prefer the original ratio.
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