KDL-55 / 46 / 40 HX853 Owners Thread Part 6

mrbarty

Mines the 46" maybe thats the difference, I think I heard the bigger sizes have a newer VA panel in them

squarejawhero

Have you seen that Panasonic are pulling out of plasma?

alleycat41

Yes, sad news. I've read the new models are really great; as if last years model's weren't meant to be fantastic!

TommoK

fingers crossed my dvds will come soon then
beginning of feb i sent my stuff off.

HaRd2BeAr

Can anyone tell me why most films on sky movies and blu-rays played on my new Sony BDPS490 blu-ray player have the letter box bands at the top and bottom of the screen? I get that they're wide screen but surely the 853 can cope with that?

I've tried various setting changes but to no avail. Seemingly the only thing I can do to get rid of the bars is to use the zoom option in the screen format menu but that messes the picture up.

I'm sure I must be doing something wrong and there's a simple way to sort it?

I have a 40 inch 853

Cheers

TommoK

That's how they should look. They are filmed at a Wider aspect ratio than the 16:9 of the tv.

Zoom will crop and distort the image sacrificing image quality.

Aaron

HaRd2BeAr

Cheers for the reply.

So there's no way to change it?

My mate has a Panasonic plasma and it automatically fills the screen but doesn't seem to mess with image quality or shape like the zoom option on the 853 does

ussjtrunks

If the film in question was 2.35:1 it will have letterbox bars, any zoom will affect picture quality. There are some full screen films, also Itv and some other tv channels crop the image to make some films fill the screen.

If on the back of the case it says 2.35:1 or similar it will have letterbox bars.

This is why i went 55inch, as 46 was great until i watched content with letterbox bars.

JMek

If I connect a pc through hdmi will I be able to select the standard picture mode or does it default to pc?

Mivanp

If you're using HDMI you can choose what you want.