Aspect Ratio wont return after watching programme in 4:3
Hi,
I have my set-up to watch in 16:9 but when we watch some of the older programmes on Drama or whatever the aspect changes to 4:3 but then will not reset to 16:9.
I have been through the settings on my Youview box as well as the settings on the TV set itself, Toshiba, but to no avail. The only way I have found to fix this is to reset the whole box waiting for it to find all of the channels, and all of the other things it does in the original set-up. I don't want to keep doing this so what can I do? A hammer is looking like the next option.
I have my set-up to watch in 16:9 but when we watch some of the older programmes on Drama or whatever the aspect changes to 4:3 but then will not reset to 16:9.
I have been through the settings on my Youview box as well as the settings on the TV set itself, Toshiba, but to no avail. The only way I have found to fix this is to reset the whole box waiting for it to find all of the channels, and all of the other things it does in the original set-up. I don't want to keep doing this so what can I do? A hammer is looking like the next option.
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So it's always 16:9, and there is no resetting to 16:9 to be done.
If you have changed anything on the TV when watching these programmes - though it should be completely unnecessary to switch it away from 16:9 to anything else - then that is the setting you will need to change back.
But for this to be a YouView box problem is completely inexplicable to me.
Not something I often say - indeed, I don't think I've ever said it before - but what you describe is a mystery to me, unless it is nothing to do with the YouView box.
In such a case, the 16:9 picture would be all squashed up into the 4:3 bit. Is this what you see?
Such a problem would probably come from a software corruption (I won't say bug, or other people would have seen this), but the full Factory Reset you describe doing ought to clear out all the software on the machine and reload it from the Internet.
What you might like to try if/when it happens again, though, is the 8-second soft reset - with the box still on, touch the standby button for just over 8 seconds, and allow it to reset itself.
This reset is less drastic than the full one, and does not lose any recordings, tunings, or other settings.
But it does jiggle the electrons in the box, and will perhaps shake the 16:9 detection loose.
Worth a try, anyway, and not as deleterious to the box as the percussive maintenance you are threatening it with.
You might have a TV that allows "centre cut-out" which expands the whole 4:3 image and discards the top and bottom of the image to fill a 16:9 screen.