[gregf70]

Last week I recieved Comcast Cable, due to issues at my community DirectTV is no longer viable, so had to switch.


Anyway, a few of the channels on my Panny 50" seem to be stretched. I have futzed with the formatting on the Panny and seems the cable box or comcast is doing something I do not understand.


Some channels throw there logos on the screen and bottom reading panel on the screen. On some of these channels I only see have the logo and not all of the reading panel.


The panel should read on left side:

Author: Whom ever


I see:

thor: Whom ever


It is the same on right side as well.


I have tried to format the Panny to see which view works, but none do.


Full

Just

Zoom

H-Fill

4:3


The cable box which is an HD DVR box doesn't give much choices on screen format, but I still can't seem to get it right.


Is Comcast stretching some of these channels for some reason?


Thanks for any input on this.

 

[Ratman]

Check settings in the cable box. Make/model?

 

[gregf70]



Quote:
Originally Posted by Ratman /forum/post/15464859


Check settings in the cable box. Make/model?

Ratman,


I have the Scientific Atlanta HD 8300 Comcast cable box.


I just did a comparison between the SD and HD version of History Channel. SD version looks great as far as 16:9 format. The HD version looks stretched. You can see half the History Chan Logo, also the show put up a full screen of text and you couldn't see the full left or right of the text.


I ran the setup of the cable box and it is set for 1080i (Auto DVI/HDMI as it shows in the menu's).


The Panny is set to FULL.


Is Comcast doing something on broadcast of these channels? Or is it me?


Thanks,

 

[gregf70]

Ok, looks like it is fixed, Comcast RESET my box, I unplugged and reset it on my end and the History Channel HD comes in fine now.


So far so good. Thanks for help guys.