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| Thread ID: 111611 | 2010-08-04 01:13:00 | Sky TV - screen size issue | Miami Steve (2128) | PC World Chat |
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| 1124481 | 2010-08-04 01:13:00 | As an avid poker player/fan, I started watching the long awaited 2010 World Series of Poker coverage on ESPN on Sunday night. However, it was, in short, unwatchable. My TV is a 46" widescreen LCD. Sky box is a MySky HDi. The programme was shown in 4:3 format with black bars to left and right of the picture. However, the picture itself was obviously widescreen, as the hole-cards and the right hand edge of the community cards were off the screen. Thus it was impossible to follow the action. I tried various combinations of the settings for widescreen/pillar box etc, but none of the settings had any impact whatsoever. Is there any chance that it is an issue that I can resolve, or is it firmly in Sky's area? If it's with Sky, I'm probably best just going off and looking for the shows on torrent sites as Sky will just bring out the tired line "That's how we receive it from xxxxx". |
Miami Steve (2128) | ||
| 1124482 | 2010-08-04 01:22:00 | I'm pretty certain ESPN is only shown in 4:3 format. Just checked it out on my Sony 40" Bravia. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1124483 | 2010-08-04 01:30:00 | You need to go into the settings and adjust the output for widescreen in your Sky box, not on your TV Set. I don't have Sky but I found the setting on my mother-in-laws Sky box in all of 20 seconds, just make sure you're using the Sky remote ;) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1124484 | 2010-08-04 01:31:00 | I'm pretty certain ESPN is only shown in 4:3 format. Just checked it out on my Sony 40" Bravia. :) It is. That much I knew. But normally when showing a program recorded in Widescreen, the ESPN picture will appear in widescreen format in the centre of the screen - i.e. still within the horizontal confines of the 4:3 format, but with black bars also appearing above/below the picture. |
Miami Steve (2128) | ||
| 1124485 | 2010-08-04 01:34:00 | You need to go into the settings and adjust the output for widescreen in your Sky box, not on your TV Set. I don't have Sky but I found the setting on my mother-in-laws Sky box in all of 20 seconds, just make sure you're using the Sky remote ;) I've been there Chill. Tried everything. And the Sky box is definitely controlling the widescreen stuff. What I'm hoping for is that somebody else on here watches the poker and can confirm/deny that what I am seeing is all there is. If I have a setting wrong, that will be great, but I can't honestly see that I have. I have worked methodically through each setting on the sky box. :) |
Miami Steve (2128) | ||
| 1124486 | 2010-08-04 02:00:00 | ESPN is only shown in 4:3 - like a whole lot of other channels. It's not your TV, and it's not your Sky decoder - it is the broadcast. In this case it looks like they have buggered something up with the aspect ratio, but there is nothing you can do about it, and probably nothing Sky can do about it either. :( | wratterus (105) | ||
| 1124487 | 2010-08-04 02:38:00 | What I'm hoping for is that somebody else on here watches the poker and can confirm/deny that what I am seeing is all there is. I was watching the same last night and also couldn't get the whole picture on screen. The pot total was also cut off. I wondered if it was off ESPN's HD channel but since we aren't lucky enough to have the same here in NZ, we got the feed though Sky's sub-standard channel. |
Breezzee (2913) | ||
| 1124488 | 2010-08-04 02:48:00 | You need to go into the settings and adjust the output for widescreen in your Sky box, not on your TV Set. I don't have Sky but I found the setting on my mother-in-laws Sky box in all of 20 seconds, just make sure you're using the Sky remote ;) ESPN and a few other Sky channels are only shown in 4:3 in NZ. Playing around with the Sky decoder settings won't do anything. I did a posting about that awhile ago. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1124489 | 2010-08-04 07:06:00 | I emailed Sky a couple of weeks ago about the the UCL which is on ESPN, this is what they replied: There are no plans to secure rights for the UEFA Champions League as stated in your email, ESPN already provides coverage of this in our region and we regret any inconvenience for the picture quality on the Pacific Rim feed. :angry A-not-so-legal form of downloading may be the way to go :xmouth:. |
davidmmac (4619) | ||
| 1124490 | 2010-08-04 08:29:00 | I wouldn't pay for that. Wait, I don't anyway... They deserve to have it pirated. What the hell is the point in paying for it if it's useless? |
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