DirecTV H20 用户指南

16:9 TVs Showing 4:3 programs

For a wide screen 16:9 TV showing a standard 4:3 TV program, the program is too tall to fi t the screen. 

Your choices here include:

Here the 4:3 image is shrunk until the entire height of the program fi ts on your TV. Since the aspect 

ratio is maintained, the image is no longer wide enough to fi ll the screen, so gray or black bars are 

seen at the left and right edges. To change the bar color, access the  HDTV screen in System Setup as 

described above, then select the desired bar color option under the TV Ratio tab.

In this setting, instead of adding bars to the sides, the 4:3 program image is stretched horizontally until 

it’s wide enough to fi ll the screen. Your entire screen will be full, but the images are a little stretched to 

compensate.

Th

  is format crops (cuts off ) the top and bottom of a 4:3 frame, keeping the 4:3 ratio intact.

Fortunately, you 
can still watch 
regular TV on 
your HD TV. Isn’t 
it nice to be one 
step ahead of 
the rest of the 
world?