Why has my widescreen TV just made everyone look fat?
Brian Butterworth published on UK Free TV If you have a widescreen TV, you will only see the correct looking pictures if you set the digital decoder box to widescreen mode.
If you select to BBC NEWS 24, you can use this channel to check your picture. This channel always broadcasts in widescreen, and you can compare the location of the clock in the bottom-left and the press red in the top-left to these images.
If your picture looks like this:
Then follow these instructions to correct the problem.
If your picture looks like this:
Then follow these instructions to correct the problem.
If your picture looks like this:
Congratulations, your box is set up correctly.
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Saturday, 6 August 2011
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J Lodge11:35 AM
Am going to resite my tv aerial on the gable end of my Bungalow, but am concerned that it will be adjacent to the mains cable entry point. Could the flow of electricity affect reception?
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jb383:27 PM
J Lodge: Not really! unless you are in a weaker signal area and also intend to use an aerial amplifier in the vicinity, then you "may" have a problem now and again.
That said though, the main reason that its not always desirable to do as you intend is because there is always the danger of picking up mains borne interference, albeit this being very unlikely unless the aforementioned reception conditions applies.
In other words, "if" you normally receive a good signal then I would go ahead!
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Friday, 15 November 2013
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Avin11:53 AM
Milton Keynes
I have a built-in freeview hd tv why is the picture in full screen and not in widescreen?
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MikeB1:51 PM
Avin: Its called aspect ratio, and you change it - look at your manual.
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Sunday, 2 November 2014
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Bruce Clarke12:37 PM
The links on the first two photos go to the news page Brian.
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Saturday, 2 December 2017
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Robert Smart.3:35 PM
Leven
l am located about 15 miles from Craigkelly in Fifeshire, Over the past few weeks the signal quality on some free view chanels seems to have deteriorated to the extent that seveir picture breakup occurs. Signal strength remains at 10. Chanels affected are 19 (Drama) 20, (Yesterday) and others further up the spectrum.
Robert. (KY8 5EF)
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