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Originally Posted by Focus Diode
Can't speak for Sky but certainly with Freeview boxes and DVDs it's possible to adjust the aspect ratio. 16:9 transmissions come through elongated, the reverse is of course true attempting to view 4:3 at 16:9.
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More and more Freeview channels force letterboxing even when pan & scan is selected, the BBC is particularly annoying in that respect. Oddly enough the one thing they don't letterbox is the hidden testcard on Red Button Ch.250 which I could really use!
My 'trick' is to download shows from the internet in a higher resolution than I need then zoom them to fill the screen. That way there is no apparent loss of vertical resolution and the bits at the side I couldn't care less about. For some reason I'm not able to do this with live broadcasts.