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rg001c7345
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3 days ago

NDTV World

Good Morning!

Is there a fault with NDTV World on Virgin Media Stream channel 621?

The picture seems to be squashed into 4:3.

No settings I change on my TV or stream box make a difference.

Tia

Rg.

 

 

 

8 Replies

  • newapollo's avatar
    newapollo
    Very Insightful Person
    3 days ago

    Hi rg001c7345​ 

    It's appearing in 4:3 format on my 360 box too.   I don't know if it normally broadcasts in that mode as it's not a channel I tune into.   

    If you go into Settings > Audio & Video > 4:3 handling >  andselect Full Mode and it will fill the entire screen (remember to go back in there and select Pillar box mode if wanting to watch a different channel)

    • rg001c7345's avatar
      rg001c7345
      Dialled in
      3 days ago

      Thanks for responding. This setting doesn't do anything.

      • rg001c7345's avatar
        rg001c7345
        Dialled in
        2 days ago

        Perhaps VM will provide a response at some point.

         

  • nodrogd's avatar
    nodrogd
    Very Insightful Person
    2 days ago

    Just tried this on my 2 TiVO V6 boxes, & channel 621 is showing correctly in widescreen (North London cable area).

  • Roger_Gooner's avatar
    Roger_Gooner
    Alessandro Volta
    2 days ago

    All SD broadcasts are anamorphic, meaning that the widescreen (16:9) video feed is  compressed horizontally to fit into the 4:3 SD broadcast and thus creating the squashed image. This signal also contains a digital flag, the active format description (AFD), which tells your STB or Stream box to stretch the picture back to its correct 16:9 aspect ratio. (Old timers might recall the wide screen signalling (WSS) that was a digital flag embedded in the analog video signal to tell a TV how to display the picture, but now it's AFD for the box to process.)

    I'm almost certain what's happening here is that the AFD is not quite what the 360 and Stream boxes expect, so they don't process it, but the older V6s do a better job. Perhaps a VIP can alert the powers that be to get this corrected at the central headend.