Starview 2 The Box, 16:9 cropping picture?

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  1. ush

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    I have a suspicion that when the starview 2 is set to 16:9 mode on my widescreen tv that the picture may be cropped at the sides? Anyone else see anything like this?
     
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    Many programs on cable are still transmitted as 4:3 or 14:9 not 16:9 and so if you are using a widescreen tv that is set for 16:9 the picture will not fill the screen. If you switch the SV to fullscreen the picture will then fill the widescreen tv but the image is sampled to fill the screen but is compressed and flattened. This is an incorrect setting and there wont be a fix for that apart from understanding that it is not meant to fill the screen unless the program is broadcast in 16:9.

     

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