Television Standard; Television Aspect Ratio - Topfield SBI-2070 User Manual

32 Preference Settings

4.2.2 Television standard

4.2.3 Television aspect ratio

The digital receiver supports two television standards. One
is PAL standard, and the other is NTSC standard. PAL was
adopted in European countries while NTSC is adopted in USA,
Canada, Mexico and so forth. Refer to Table
sion standard of your local area.
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
To watch normal-screen programmes
4.1 for the televi-