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Originally Posted by dr.ido
We are on DVB-T in Australia.
I've played around with a few HDTV STBs that I found recently. They are starting to hit the curb fairly regularly around here lately in some areas.
When it's working right the picture is good, but when it glitches it gets annoying.
The most frustrating problem I have found is that they all ignore the aspect ratio setting. The aspect ratio will change from program to program (and from ad to ad sometimes) regardless of what the box is set to.
This leads to 4:3 content being shown with black bars on the sides when viewing on the 4:3 set even though the box is set to 4:3 fullscreen. I can live with letterbox or center cut on 16:9 content, but why do they need to mess with existing 4:3 content?
Sometimes the picture appears with a black border on all four sides, so even those with 16:9 sets lose!
So far every box I've tried has been made by DGTEC, so I hope this is just a problem with their boxes.
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No, it isn't .... I have some Panasonic DMR-EZ27 dvd recorders with the atsc tuners, and run an s-video & rca l/r audio into an older 4:3 tv and I get those double letterboxed pictures all the time, It has been bad enough that at times that I estimated that the vertical coverage of the screen was 1/3, in otherwords, 1/3 black, 1/3 pix & 1/3 black from top to bottom.