sky box switching channels to 4:3 - anyone else?

[pano amo]

I've noticed in the last few days that some channels are automatically switching to 4:3 whereas before everything displayed as 16:9. Im sure this is not the tv. Anyone else noticed this?

[paul26982]

mine was doing this, havnt been in to watch lately but think it might have stopped

[pano amo]

Some digging around, I read on a forum that loads of people has this issue last year then it went away so sky monkeys must be tooling around with our boxes.

[CraigW]

happened to me the other night too

[R1-Jay]

mine started the other day aswell, thought it was the tv on the blink.

[Darth Paul]

My TV does this (old sky digi box so not sure about +), it was that the TV was set to WSS (?) and needed to be put into normal mode everytime it was turned on or input was changed!

[R1-Jay]

is anyone elses still doing this?

[fatboy b]

My new HD box plays the Simpsons in 4:3 HD, and 16:9 SD

I used to have the TV set to "Smart" mode, but that now zooms it right it, so I leave the TV on "Wide", and the Sky box sorts it., but does do some wierd things.

ETA - but he good thing is though Sky HD is now 1080p.

Edited by fatboy b on Monday 16th February 15:36

[Nickyboy]

Mine3 seems to be all over the place with aspect ratios, couldnt figure whether it was the tv or the box

[Tuska]

Mine is the same!

Started doing it about a week or so ago. Its only on certain channels, but will do it as i scroll through. I then have to reset to 16:9.

Very annoying.....

[Tycho]

fatboy b said:

My new HD box plays the Simpsons in 4:3 HD, and 16:9 SD

I used to have the TV set to "Smart" mode, but that now zooms it right it, so I leave the TV on "Wide", and the Sky box sorts it., but does do some wierd things.

ETA - but he good thing is though Sky HD is now 1080p.

Edited by fatboy b on Monday 16th February 15:36

The Simpsons is doing that on HD because the HD spec states that stretchy vision is a big no no but the SD spec doesn't.

[SJobson]

Tycho said:

The Simpsons is doing that on HD because the HD spec states that stretchy vision is a big no no but the SD spec doesn't.

I wasn't aware of that, but hoorah, at last! I get a headache looking at the telly when the kids watch The Simpsons in fat-o-vision 16:9.

[obob]

Has anyone resolved this yet?

Mine has been doing the same thing and its anooying. I rang Sky but got some Inidan guy making me change the apect ratio on the Sky settings from 16:9 to 4:3 60 times so I just gave up.

The picture is really small on some channels and there are black bars down the sides.

On the other hand my multiroom box is working fine.

[obob]

Anyone??????

[cs02rm0]

The in-laws had this recently - I just set the TV and the Sky box settings to always use 16:9 and I'm pretty sure that did it?

[obob]

cs02rm0 said:

The in-laws had this recently - I just set the TV and the Sky box settings to always use 16:9 and I'm pretty sure that did it?

Sky is set to 16:9, don't have the remote for the tv. Boohoo.

[JustinP1]

Mines just started this today?

Anyone track down the issue yet?

From my testing, even if you manually change the TV settings, changing to another TV channel and back to one of the offending Sky channels makes the TV switch back to 4:3!!!

Just checked now, from whichever channel you start from, if you tun on Sky Sports 1 it will revert to 4:3. Move up to SS2 and TV snaps back to widescreen after a couple of seconds.

Definitely a Sky problem to do with the indicators of whether the picture is 4:3 or widescreen...

[cs02rm0]

JustinP1 said:

From my testing, even if you manually change the TV settings, changing to another TV channel and back to one of the offending Sky channels makes the TV switch back to 4:3!!!

Have you changed the Sky box settings to 16:9 too?

[R1-Jay]

my tv was set to "auto" for the screen setting, so i had to go into the menu to change it to 16:9 and now it seems fine, sky still wont admit to changing anything tho

[JustinP1]

cs02rm0 said:

JustinP1 said:

From my testing, even if you manually change the TV settings, changing to another TV channel and back to one of the offending Sky channels makes the TV switch back to 4:3!!!

Have you changed the Sky box settings to 16:9 too?

They have been on 16:9 all the way along.