Why are the sides cut off on my big screen projection tv?

Question

It's on "full" zoom, which is supposed to show everything, not on any kind of movie zoom.

Even when I take it off of zoom (now there's bars on the sides), the whole picture is skewed to the right by about half an inch. It cuts off words and graphics on the tv shows.

Answer 1

The video being played isn't in the correct format to be widescreen, it's in the old pan-and-scan format, so the edges are out. Check the user manual for pan-and-scan format.

Answer 2

Is your TV widescreen or square?

It all depends on the aspect ratio of what you are watching.

Some zoom stretches the picture, some zoom just zooms in. If it doesn't look right use the original aspect ratio.

If you have a widescreen TV (and are not watching a widescreen presentation) and you adjust what on my TV is "pic size" it will automatically make it either stretched (so it's out of proportion) or zoomed in (you lose the sides). Or just use the original ratio where you have bars on the right and left side. It's kind of a pick your poison sort of thing.

Answer 3

In some projectors, wide screen is called "stretch mode" even thought the picture isn't stretched. "Zoom" mode sometimes means expanding a letterboxed 4:3 source to fill the 16:9 screen.

Answer 4

you are in 4:3 length to width ratio (standard TV). Change it to 16:9 (widescreen) and it will strech the picture out for you. Images will be wider though, and this usually this is unwanted.

I would stick to 4:3 unless you have a widescreen DVD or a HD broadcast.

Answer 5

Set it to "wide zoom" instead

Answer 6

Full means full screen. You would need wide, and it will come out at letterbox

Answer 7

You have it set for regular TV, not HD or widescreen, or it is broken if you do.

Answer 8

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