Television Aspect ratio

[No1Daemon]

the tv must be resampling that signal down
not ideal did no lower resolutions work

I was under the impression that 1920 x 1080 equated to 1080i which is the maximum resolution for my television.
That is the reason I chose it, so I could get the maximum benefit from my hd ready television.

[sub]

Understood. Thanks for your help sub, its really appreciated. I am actually hoping for a compromise of the 2 as I only want to stretch to fit the image when I am not viewing 16:9 displayed and the rest of the time fill the image to the outside of the screen.

So I was actually wanting a solution that would allow that.

Unfortunately this isnt something you're going to be able to get. Your set top box would have exactly the same problem, and no way around it. The difficulty is caused because some of these channels choose to transmit all day long as "16:9" (marked as such in the digital stream), but they dont all the shows in 16:9 so they've converted their 4:3 to 16:9 prior to broadcasting by adding blacks to the actual video. This causes you set top box, or GB-PVR, to do its "16:9 video on 16:9 tv" behaviour which is to fill the screen with the picture that was received...but this picture contains the black bars as part of the picture so these are shown on the screen (just as it would a tree in the picture in that location).

It would have been much better if the broadcaster had transmitted 16:9 shows as "16:9", and 4:3 shows as "4:3", that way the set top box or GB-PVR could have had a different aspect ratio behaviour for each. Instead they chose to transmit everything as "16:9".

[No1Daemon]

Fair enough.

Thanks very much.