Viewing The Wide-Screen Picture Formats; Selecting The Image Shape - Toshiba COLORSTREAM 32HFX71 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). This
feature is available for 1080i digital broadcasts and 480p1480i DVD
signals connected to the ColorStream HD 1 and HD2 jacks.
Selecting the image shape
1. Make sure the ColorStream HD1 or HD2 mode is selected. (See
page 43 for details.)
2. Press PIC SIZE repeatedly to select either Normal, Letterbox, or
Compression image shape, as described below.
Note: Themessage"NotAvailable"willappearwhenthePIGSIZEbutton
ispressed in a modeotherthanColorStream HD7 or HD2.
SIZE
HD1 iMAGE SHAPE
O:NORMAL
I:LETTERBOX
2:COMPRESSION
O-2:TO SELECT
While the above menu is on the screen, you can select the desired
picture size by pressing the corresponding number button (0-2).
Normal
The Normal picture size displays the picture in the conventional 4:3
aspect ratio. The picture is stretched vertically to fill the screen.
Note:
Youcan also change the image shape using
the menu system. SelectIMAGE SHAPE
HD 7or HD2 in the THEATERmenu.
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THEATER
WOW
SRS 3D ON
FOCUS ON
TruBass HIGH
NORMAL
Letterbox, Compression
The Letterbox and Compression modes display the wide picture
(16:9) with bars at top and bottom. The picture retains its true
proportion.
Letterbox (recommended mode)=
• Picture is horizontally stretched, with bars at top and bottom.
• Lower picture quality than in the Compression mode because of a
reduction in the scanning lines.
• Slightly lower chance of permanently
engraining stationary patterns on the
picture tube than in the Compression
mode.
Compression=
• Picture is vertically compressed,
with bars at top and bottom.
• Better picture quality than in the
Letterbox mode because of more
effective use of scanning lines.
• Greater chance of permanently
Letterbox and Compression
modes have bars at the top and
bottom of the screen. See
"Notice of possible adverse
effects on TV picture tube," at
right.
engraining stationary patterns on the picture tube than in the
Letterbox mode, since there is no raster in the area of the bars at
top and bottom.
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