Tv Signals And Display Formats - Mitsubishi Electric 151 Series Owner's Manual

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3. Using TV Features

TV Signals and Display Formats

This is a 16:9 widescreen TV suitable for images available
from HDTV and many DVDs. You can view older-style, squar-
ish images (4:3 aspect ratio) using one of the display formats
described on this page. Press the MORE key and then the
0 key (FORMAT) to cycle through available display formats.
The TV remembers the format you last used for each input.
DVD Image Definitions
Image information may be stated on the DVD case. Some
DVDs support both formats described below.
Anamorphic (or Enhanced for WideScreen TV). Indicates
DVDs recorded to show widescreen images properly on 16:9
TV sets using the TV's Standard format mode (recommended).
Non-Anamorphic (or 4:3, 1.33:1, Letter Box, or
Full Screen). Indicates DVDs recorded for viewing on
squarish TV screens. They may be full screen (4:3 or
1.33:1) which crops movies to fit the narrow TV, or letter
box, which adds black top and bottom bars.
Signal Definitions
480i: Older type of interlaced signals from the ANT input,
composite VIDEO, component Y Pb Pr, or HDMI jacks.
480p: Progressive-scan DVD signals on component Y Pb
Pr or HDMI jacks.
720p and 1080i: High-definition signals received through
component Y Pb Pr or HDMI jacks. These signals are
always 16:9 (widescreen).
1080p: High-definition signals from a PC or Blu-ray
player, HDMI inputs only.
SD 4:3: Standard-definition squarish-screen-format
signals from digital channels on the ANT input.
SD 16:9: Standard-definition widescreen-format signals
from digital channels on the ANT input.
HD 16:9: High-definition 16:9 widescreen signals from
digital channels on the ANT input.
TV Display Format Definitions
Standard: The full-screen format used by HDTV signals.
Use this format to display anamorphic DVDs with a 1.78:1 or
1.85:1 aspect ratio. Anamorphic DVDs with a 2.35:1 aspect
ratio are displayed correctly but with top and bottom black
bars. Squarish (4:3) images are stretched evenly from side to
side. Available for all signals.
Expand: Enlarges the picture to fill the screen by cropping
the top and bottom; useful for reducing the letter box top and
bottom bars of non-anamorphic DVD images.
Zoom: Enlarges the picture to fill the screen by cropping the
sides, top, and bottom to eliminate black bars.
• 480i/480p and SD 4:3 signals:
bottom bars on anamorphic DVDs with a 2.35:1 aspect
ratio.
• 720p, 1080i, SD 16:9, and HD signals:
added to squarish 4:3 images.
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Eliminates top and
Eliminates bars
Original
Signal
TV
Display
Non-anamorphic or SD 4:3
Standard Distorted.
Not recom-
mended.
Expand Recom-
mended for
letterbox. See
Note 1.
Zoom
Distorted.
Not recom-
mended. See
Note 1.
Stretch Recom-
mended for
standard
broadcasts.
See Note 1.
Stretch
Recom-
Plus
mended for
standard
broadcasts.
See Note 1.
Narrow See Note 1
Note 1: Available for 480i, 480p, and digital SD 4:3 signals only.
Original Signal
SD 16:9 or
HD Digital
720p, 1080i,
1080p Signal
(except 720p
)
TV Display Formats. Press MORE and then 0 (FORMAT)
to see the displays available for the current program.
Press INFO to see the name of the display format in use.
Stretch: Stretches squarish 4:3 images across the screen
to display the entire image with less distortion than Stan-
dard.
Stretch Plus: Similar to Stretch, but minimizes distor-
tion on the sides by expanding the picture to crop off
portions of the top and bottom. Use to adjust the
vertical position of the picture.
Narrow: Displays narrow 4:3 images in their original
shape. Adds black side bars to fill the screen.
Wide Expand: Enlarges the picture, cropping the image
on both sides. Removes or reduces black side bars added
to narrow images converted to 16:9 signals for digital
broadcast.
Note: All high-definition channels send widescreen
(16:9) signals, but not all programming was created for
the widescreen format. The broadcaster may stretch
the image or add side bars to fill the widescreen area.
Full Native: Displays all pixels in the original image
Anamorphic DVD
Recommended
Distorted; not
recommended.
See Note 1.
Recommended
for anamorphic
2.35:1 images.
See Note 1.
Distorted; not
recommended.
See Note 1.
Distorted; not
recommended.
See Note 1.
Distorted; not
recommended.
See Note 1.
Display Formats
Wide Recommended to re-
Expand move side bars.
Zoom Recommended to re-
move bars from the top,
bottom, and sides.
Full Best for computer or
Native game images (compo-
nent and HDMI only)