Viewing The Wide-Screen Picture Formats; Selecting The Picture Size - Toshiba 50HX81 Owner's Manual

Viewing the wide-screen picture formats

You can view programs that have the conventional TV picture format
(4:3 aspect ratio) and the wide-screen format (16:9 aspect ratio) in a
variety of picture sizes.

Selecting the picture size

Repeatedly press PIC SIZE to select either Nomal, Theater Wide 1,
Theater Wide 2, Theater Wide 3, or Full picture size, as described
below.
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P I CTURE S I ZE
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0 : NORMAL
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1 : THEATER W I DE 1
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2 :
THEATER W I DE 2
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3 : THEATER W I DE 3
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4 :
FULL
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0 - 4 TO SELECT
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While the above menu is on the screen, you can select the desired
picture size by pressing the corresponding number button (0–4).
Normal
The Normal picture size displays the picture in the conventional 4:3
aspect ratio, with bars at the left and right.
Conventional picture on a
conventional TV screen
Theater Wide 1, 2, 3
The Theater Wide picture size enlarges the picture to fill the screen
(see note at right).
Wide-screen picture on a
conventional TV screen (also
known as "letter box" format,
with bars at top and bottom)
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Conventional picture in Normal size
on your wide-screen TV
Wide-screen picture in Theater Wide
size on your wide-screen TV
PIC SIZE
MENU
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Note:
If you select Theater Wide 2 or 3 for
conventional size programs, the top and
bottom edges of the picture may be hidden.
To see the hidden edges, either scroll the
picture (see page 33) or select Theater
Wide 1, which displays all of the picture (see
page 32).
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