Any way to "fix" my LCD problem?

[hans030390]

My westinghouse (19" widescreen, 16x10) zooms in on a 16x9 image...it fills up the screen, so the top and bottom section of the image are fine, but it cuts off the left and right side.

It's worse on 720p than on 1080i.

The scaling option (full, zoom, normal) does nothing for me...it's stuck at full.

So now I'm stuck with a cut off 16x9 image, BUT that's only with a high-def signal. For example, I can run FFXII in widescreen and it will let me scale it to fit the screen properly. But anything in a HD signal gets stuck at full and cuts off the sides of the image.

Is there ANY sort of workaround for this?

 

[Auric]

16x9 is less wide than the most common film standards and 16x10 is even less so. Therefore, the options are for a significant portion of the vertical height to go unutilized (with a relatively small image), for the horizontal to be cropped, or for distortion. Take yer pick. If the panel options have no affect then look to the player, renderer, decoder and demuxer/splitter options and/or combinations of same.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

which westinghouse19' WS does 16x10?

 

[hans030390]

Link to the TV

Personally I'd rather the top and bottom of the image to have black bars, because it cuts off enough to be annoying.

The TV itself has no option for that, but it does have the scaling option (which I mentioned) that never works for HD. (PS3 HD games do it, but PS2 games running on the PS3 dont...I can scale them)

As far as I know, the PS3 does not have any sort of options for this problem.

You mentioned that I could look at "renderer, decoder and demuxer/splitter options", but I'm not quite sure what you mean by that or how it could help with my tv.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

read the link you sent, the native res is 1440 x 900. so theres no way you can produce
16x10 or 16x9

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
read the link you sent, the native res is 1440 x 900. so theres no way you can produce
16x10 or 16x9

1440 / 900 = 1.6. It's a 16:10 resolution. On the other hand, one part of the page says 1366x768 (16:9), the other says 1440x900 (16:10). So I'm not quite sure what is going on.

I'm a little astounded that an HDTV would force you to scale an HD signal so that part of the screen is not visible -- what it should do is scale it so the biggest dimension fills the whole screen, and then letterbox/pillarbox it. However, the 'issue' you describe of being unable to further scale or modify HD signals is pretty common; since they're digital, there's usually nothing to change.

You might try AVSForum; perhaps someone over there has the same TV (or one in the same model line).