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TV Picture is Stretched Out

17 years ago

We have comcast with a box. The picture sometimes is stretched out - i.e., on the left hand top of the screen, the message LIVE only shows VE and the bottom of the screen only shows half an 8 - the channel number. The whole picture is elongated. Then, all of a sudden,it's back to normal.

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regus_patoff
17 years ago
> Then, all of a sudden,it's back to normal.

while you're watching the same TV program ?

or when you change channels ?
blueheron
Original Author
17 years ago
While watching the same program.
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dadoes
17 years ago
What kind of TV? It may be related to a setting on the TV, not the cable tuner. My plasma panel has an Auto mode that's supposed to automatically switch between wide-screen, stretch, 4:3 ... whichever ... in response to what it senses on the picture, but I find it tends to be flaky, so I never use that mode.
blueheron
Original Author
17 years ago
It's a VIZIO flat screen, but not a plasma tv.

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