Television Picture Squashed In At Side

kah22

I’d appreciate some advice.

Recently I rescanned my TVand Humax hdr-fox t2 box. If I’m watching the TV with the signal coming in via the Humax the smaller stations are squashed in at the side, however, if the signal is coming in via my television then the picture is full screen.

I've turned the Humax completely off, disconneced the plug, and let the set idle for a few moments but that didn't help.

Picture quality is excellent wherever the signal is coming from.

Any suggestions as to what is going on here and how I might fix the problem.

Peter Rhea

Which 'smaller' channels? What programme is on?

kah22

Peter Rhea wrote: »

Which 'smaller' channels? What programme is on?

Viva, True Etertainment, and a number of others.
It happens on ALL the programs new programs, old programs - the lot.

Peter Rhea

What about the film that's on Viva now, is it 'squashed'?

Give specific examples of programmes: they don't have to be old to be 4:3 aspect ratio.

kah22

Today at 9:45am I tuned into the following stations with these results:

Channels 1 - 5 as expected no problem either through my Humax Box of TV (The TV is a Sony Bravia)

A percular thing though was that Channel 4 +1 had bars when viewed via the Humax Box, none with the TV

ITV 4 Humax Bars, TV OK showing Magnum PI

Movie Mix showing Lucy OK on both Humax and TV

That was just a random sample. If you need any more I'll certainly have a
look.

RTE 1 - TG4 OK all round. Though I'm been constantly told to rescan. Still that's another issue for another post.

As always many thanks for any help offered.

Kevin

Souriau

kah22 wrote: »

Today at 9:45am I tuned into the following stations with these results:

Channels 1 - 5 as expected no problem either through my Humax Box of TV (The TV is a Sony Bravia)

A percular thing though was that Channel 4 +1 had bars when viewed via the Humax Box, none with the TV

ITV 4 Humax Bars, TV OK showing Magnum PI

Movie Mix showing Lucy OK on both Humax and TV

That was just a random sample. If you need any more I'll certainly have a
look.

RTE 1 - TG4 OK all round. Though I'm been constantly told to rescan. Still that's another issue for another post.

As always many thanks for any help offered.

Kevin

You may had set your Sony TV to Wide or Full aspect instead of Normal or Auto aspect
Saorview is not transmitting any aspect flags that I can see but Freeview does.
As for Magium PI on ITV4 is in 4:3, this is the data from Freeview EIT

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Starts: 18/11/2013 09:55:00
Length: 01:05:00
EIT Source: other TS, present/following
Name: Magnum P.I.
Description: Echoes of the Mind (Part 2): Detective drama series based in Hawaii. Magnum's latest case concludes.
Description Source: DVB Short Event
Descriptor: Component Descriptor
Component: und (video, 4:3 aspect ratio, 25 Hz)

Descriptor: Component Descriptor
Component: eng (audio, stereo (2 channel))

Descriptor: Private Data Specifier Descriptor
Private Data Specifier: Independent Television Commission

Descriptor: Content Descriptor
Content: user defined (user 0x0/0x0)

Descriptor: User Private Descriptor: 0x89
00 65 6e 67 43 6f 6e 74 61 69 6e 73 20 73 63 65 .engContains sce
6e 65 73 20 77 68 69 63 68 20 76 69 65 77 65 72 nes which viewer
73 20 6d 61 79 20 66 69 6e 64 20 64 69 73 74 72 s may find distr
65 73 73 69 6e 67 2e 20 essing.

Descriptor: Content Identifier Descriptor
c4 08 2f 32 30 37 30 39 33 35 ../2070935

Descriptor: Content Identifier Descriptor
c8 09 2f 39 32 39 34 34 31 37 37 ../92944177

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Peter Rhea

kah22 wrote: »

A percular thing though was that Channel 4 +1 had bars when viewed via the Humax Box, none with the TV

ITV 4 Humax Bars, TV OK showing Magnum PI

Movie Mix showing Lucy OK on both Humax and TV

Magnum is from the 1980s. Channel 4 +1 had a US show from 1998/99. The black bars are the 'OK' condition & the TV is getting it wrong.

If you dislike the way the Humax is displaying programmes, you will have to change aspect ratio settings somewhere. Did you do a 'factory reset' on the Humax or the TV at any point?

kah22 wrote: »

RTE 1 - TG4 OK all round. Though I'm been constantly told to rescan. Still that's another issue for another post.

You already have a thread running on the rescan issue: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=87461093

Just delete the channels that are telling you to rescan.

Mr Cumulonimbus

As Peter says, the black bars are the ok condition.

I have this Humax STB, with the display resolution set to 1080i.

To set aspect ratios go to menu>settings>preferences>video. Then choose screen ratio and pick either 16:9 or 4:3.

If set to 16:9, in the display format menu you can choose auto, pillarbox or zoom. I have this set to pillarbox. This should ensure that material originally shot in 4:3 is displayed correctly.

The only thing to note here is that the above settings are fine with UK channels. RTE1 HD and RTE2 HD on Saorview are currently not displaying 4:3 material properly, i.e. pillarboxing.