I just replaced my Sony HD300 receiver with an H20 because the Directv part of the receiver quit working. The one thing so far that I don't like is the H20 doesn't fill my screen in the height direction. I get a small black bar at the top of the screen with 1080 signal. I get a real small black bar with 720 and no black bars with 480. All the menu and info and guide fill the screen. I use the native mode and I am using the JVC RS1 projector. My Sony receiver did not have this problem. Is this a known problem or a recent update bug? I know that it updated the firmware 2 times last night. How do you check the firmware#? I cant seem to find it in the menu anywhere? :confused:

I don't think you have a problem. In the native mode, in the boxes enable 480p, 720p, and 1080i. Personally I don't enable 480i which makes an incoming 480i become 480p to start with. You then just put each signal in the mode you want, for example I have 480p in wide 1 and the with a 16/9 tv 720p and 1080i the screen is filled with a HD picture. When you go to a SD channel the screen should be filled with your setting for 480p.

You can find the updates in the menu-setup-information and test, then scroll down and it will show you any updates and when they were installed.

Good luck.

My software version is 0x2042, is this the latest?
My problem isn't an aspect ratio problem.
It's more like it cuts off 1-1.5 inches off the top of the picture with 1080 and about half that much on 720 signal. It fills the screen top to bottom with 480 and with the menu system.

Yes, 0X2042 is the current software version for the H20-600. It just recently came out. I don't have the black bar problem that you are seeing. Could it possibly be that you have your tv screen set for "full pixel"? If I set my screen to full pixel I will sometimes see some bars on some channels but not all. When set at normal pixel it's fine. Sorry, but that's the only thing I can think of right now.

My RS1 does not overscan and the only feature it has is to use the mask feature , that just adds a mask around the outside of the picture to get rid of garbage along the edge of the picture, which is like adding black bars on all 4 sides. It seems like the blanking or timing or phasing of the signal that the receiver sends to my RS1 is slightly out of spec and chopping the very top part of the picture off. Most displays have some amount of overscan so they will not see the small black bar that I see. I'm just trying to figure out if this known problem or just a problem with my H20. I see the bar on all 1080i and 720p signals but not on 480 and I get the same problem with the antenna input also.