Gripe about TV's

Has anyone else noticed that you can't see the whole TV screen?
I have two TV's that are both new enough that we should be able to set both for wide screen viewing.
Neither TV will get the whole picture. Both are wide screen capable, with 4 options on each, but neither one will do it.
I can understand that my big 52 inch TV won't do it, but why not the small ones?
DOUG
 
Mine used to until we went to dish network. Now either the sides are cut off or black bars top and bottom depending on settings. Not too impressed with dish. FIL brought it with him when he moved in with us.
 
You need to go into the menu to change screen settings.I have ours set to full screen. They came set as wide-screen which we do not like.
 
I've got four different brand LCD TVs and from sizes from 19" to 50". I can get a full screen on all of them when I get the screen settings correct. The size of the TV has nothing to do with it. It's all about how the image is being broadcast and how you tell you TV to interpret it.

Note that if you use a DVD player -that too has settings for screen sizes.
 
Hello doug,

Like Mark-IA said you need to go to the TV's menu, and change the video options. Bet you have it a least 1x, chose standard settings, and you will get the whole picture,

Guido.
 
You didn't mention what sort of broadcasts you are trying to watch. The old analog TVs used a screen width to height ratio of 4 to 3. Now -with the digital wide-screen TVs, the screens have a width to height ratio of 16 to 9. That is a HUGE difference. So if you watch an old analog type broadcast or recording that was made in a 4 to 3 ratio (almost square) and try to fit it on to a wide rectangle screen - you will lose some of the top and bottom if you force your TV to fill the screen with the "ASPECT" control. That is unless you use one of the weird settings that changes an almost square into a long rectangle and distorts everything - kind of like looking into a fun-house mirror.

Regardless - I've never seen a digital TV that could not be forced to fill a screen except with just a few low-quality broadcasts from small, local TV stations.
 
On Comcast cable remote look at the lower right corner. There is a button for ZOOM. try pushing it. I have the HD set up and you can change from normal cable to HD cable to standard and Zoom all watching the same prgram . Might want to check the website for you TV also. My Samsung has a couple of settings also. Can drive ya crazy.
 
The size can be set on both the TV and Dish Network. Just grab a remote, and a glass of tea, and push buttons till it works.
 
I know absolutely nothing about TVs, but my wife could figure it out for you. She watches the weather every morning, and I read the news ticker that runs along the bottom of the screen. Soon as the weather is done, TV goes off. Every now and then my ticker is gone, and she does some magic with the remote and it comes back. There's something in the menu that will fix it for you. You might have to enlist the help of a grandchild.
 
If you have Dishnet, look on the Dish remote close to the bottom left, there is button that says Format, that will change your screen. My 7 year-old Granddaughter showed me that about 2 weeks ago.
 

I only have that problem while watching live news. It is not the fault of the TV. Recently though, someone must have complained, because now, everything fits the screen just fine.
 
Yep, got the same problem. I'm on AT&T Uverse, new TV...

Tried every setting I can find. I can shrink the picture down so there is a black border all the way around the screen, still the top and bottom of the picture are cut off. I was experimenting with it last night during the Cowbow game, no matter what I did the score and game stats across the bottom were cut off, could only see the top half of the message.
 

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