Fill HD screen
I've been using Mythdora for a while now on a standard TV and have now tried a different box on my HD TV. As the title implies I have having difficulty stretching out the screen to fill the HD screen. Obviously, I have googled how other people have done this, but to no success.
Is anyone actually able to do this? I am using a GeForce 7100 GS video card and outputting the signal via S-video. Would it be worth the money to buy a DVI to HDMI cable?
If anyone is doing this successfully, could you please post how you managed to get this working? I understand I will not get HD content or resolution, but I want it to fill the screen like my set top box DVD player would do. I just get the letterbox 4:3 ratio instead of a (stretched) 16:9.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
I really don't understand
I really don't understand why people think it's ok to fill a 16:10 ratio screen with a 3:4 image. This can be done on Myth anyway with the fill option. This is NOT maintaining an aspect ratio! Your set top box does it because nobody wanted to bother to have a box that knows what aspect ratio image it has and they assume that the public is too stupid and non discerning to know the difference, sadly, this assertion may be partially accurate, it is for money reasons that your stb is like this, not because it's right. Frankly, it's a ghetto hack to do this and there is nothing less rewarding than seeing some hot actresses or models looking like short squishy people. Everytime I go into a video store it drives me crazy to see that. Would the outer unused bands be lonely and start crying without having images on them constantly for the sake of having no part of the screen unused? Arrgghhhhh!!!!!
Whew! I'm ok now.
Dave, I feel your pain.
I'm not crazy about short, squishy people or ovals that ought to be circles either. But there is an excuse. LCD sets can develop stuck pixels and plasma screens uneven brightness from having 4:3 images surrounded by black bars for hours on end. Think of it as obscene screen savers. :-/
This reminds me of a CRT TV
This reminds me of a CRT TV that existed back in the mid 90's called a cinemascope that was a 16:10 aspect ratio tube and had the option of doing picture out of picture. Heck, new Myth Idea, have things like weather and stocks etc diplaying on the outer edge. Well Myth is only at version 0.21 yet so who knows? The trouble is that letterbox content will haunt us for years to come. I can't get enough widescreen content in my life. Oh well.
My Panny plasma gives you
My Panny plasma gives you the option of displaying 4:3 pictures with two different intensities of gray sidebars to save the screen and some of the local HD channels put colored sidebars around 4:3 images. There's more than one way to skin the cat.
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/in
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Aspect_ratio
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis