Television Aspect Ratio - Topfield CBC-5150 User Manual

18 Preference Settings

4.2.2 Television aspect ratio

If you have a PAL television, you have to set the TV Type option
to PAL. In this case, if you switch to a service of the NTSC stan-
dard, though it is unlikely to happen, the digital receiver will
display the pictures converted into the PAL standard. How-
ever, it is inevitable to lose a little picture quality. Likewise,
the contrary case brings about the same result.
The best thing is to watch PAL services with a PAL television
and to watch NTSC services with a NTSC television. However,
a multi television set is able to process both of them. So if you
have a multi television set, you should set the TV Type option
to Multi. Then the digital receiver will present pictures without
standard conversion.
If you have a wide-screen television, set the TV Aspect Ratio
option to 16:9.
You can enjoy both wide-screen programmes and normal-
screen programmes with your wide-screen television as the
above figures show.
in full screen like the left figure, set the Display Format option
to Full. Normal-screen pictures then will be inflated to fit to
the width of the wide screen. Otherwise, to watch them in the
original ratio like the right figure, set it to Center. If you have
a normal-screen television, set the TV Aspect Ratio option to
4:3.
To watch normal-screen programmes