Has anyone experienced this?

SprNova

I have a HD digital box, and a 16:9 widescreen and all the settings are setup correctly for all aspect ratios.

When I'm watching something in HD everything looks great, but when it goes to commercials and the black bars come on the sides their uneven. The black bar on the left of the screen is about 5" and the black bar on the right is 2.5-3". When I watch something in SD 4:3 my tv shows grey bars on the side. They are uneven also, and the on the left side between the picture and the grey bar there is a thin .5" black bar, WTF? This is actually causing the screen to lose picture on the right side of the screen, b/c I turned on a workout channel (the people are mostly symetrical) and the instructor was off to the right, the person on the right of her was off the screen halfway and the girl on the left of the screen was in plain view w/ more picture on the left.

Has anyone experienced this problem? I'm pretty sure that the problem is with the cable box b/c my dvd player doesn't have this issure

JohninTenn

only the feature you are watching is in HD not the commercials.

SprNova

I am aware of that, but that's not the issue here. The problem is that I'm losing part of the picture on the right of my screen on every channel whether it be in HD or not. I noticed this b/c the black bar on the right is smaller than the one on the left.

Has anyone experienced this before? It's driving me nuts, I'm thinking there's something wrong w/ the signal or the box.

SamelCamel

I have a JVC 61" that has controls in the menu to correct the "centering" of the picture. You may want to check the options on both the TV and tuner and see if you can find those options.

-Sam

SprNova

I've looked all over and cannot find anything to center the picture. I can only move up and down on my HDTV.

godson

I didnt notice mention of what kind of set you have,is it a CRT? If so thats very common with these sets and if your willing to mess with the service settings you can just about get it even or a better solution would be to look in the ISF calibration threads for a calibrator near you and you can get price ideas and such....theres a guy named d6500k who post alot on here,he is a ISF calibrator and if he's not in your area he definitly can give you suggestions on who to call and probably an approx. price range,also very knowledgeable,has helped me with many service menu perils as I attemptede to tweak my CRT by myself,before calling an ISF and actually getting a very good deal on doing all three of my sets over the course of about a month....good luck

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Breakfast, shmreakfast. Look at the score, for Christ's sake. It's only the second period and I'm up 12 to 2. Breakfasts come and go, Renee, but Hartford, "the Whale," they only beat Vancouver once, maybe twice in a lifetime.

SprNova

yes, i can understand this as being a callibration issue but my other inputs don't do this, just the cable box. That is why I don't think the problem is in the TV, but in the box...

godson

Yea thats ok,have you tries hooking up the cable thru a different input then,cause I believe each input has its own set of calibration specs.....for instance when I had mine done the price included 2 inouts fully calibrated on each set so on 2 sets I had the HDMI and 1 components done and on my CRT I had both comonents done.....what are you using to hook it up,cause it sorta sounds like overscan maybe and I'm pretty sure that input dependent so I would give another input a shot and also try to talk to doug.....they guy is one of the best,I'll try to pm about this thread also

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Breakfast, shmreakfast. Look at the score, for Christ's sake. It's only the second period and I'm up 12 to 2. Breakfasts come and go, Renee, but Hartford, "the Whale," they only beat Vancouver once, maybe twice in a lifetime.

d6500k

Spr, try connecting the box to one of the inputs that does not show the anomoly. If the anomoly shows up on the new input, then you have correctly acertained that the box is the culprit.

A few questions...

interface for the cable box? HDMI/component/svid/composite/ or RF?

What in the make of the cable box? Cable Provider?

What make/model of display?

There is most probably more to the story than we are seeing here.
I'll try to help, but since you have this issue just with the box, a replacement may be necessary.

Good Viewing,

Doug k

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godson

There you go bro,answers this guys questions and proceed to HD happiness

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Breakfast, shmreakfast. Look at the score, for Christ's sake. It's only the second period and I'm up 12 to 2. Breakfasts come and go, Renee, but Hartford, "the Whale," they only beat Vancouver once, maybe twice in a lifetime.

paulc

spr, you need to get a job in the ad business, they love guys like you! Once you do that, make them do their commercials in HD! Then maybe I'll stop ALWAYS recording anything with commercials so I can FF past them.

SprNova

I've tried both HDMI and component on two different inputs, still the anomoly. I called a cable tech to come switch out the box (pace) with a new one (?). The new box helped a little but not much. Cable is through time warner cable, (city of hamilton, oh.). I have a hitachi 51f59 which is a RP CRT HDTV.

Time warner just did a massive update on their system and people are experiencing a lot of problems throughout the area. No one has mentioned the same thing that I'm seeing though.

SprNova

the problems not in the commercials, this is only where I noticed the problem. You need to get a job in a library and learn how to read...

SprNova

update... I finally connected my PS2 to the TV (madden season) and I noticed the same problem with this input. I see a thin black bar on the left side of the screen and nothing on the right. The problem can't be the cable now if it's happening w/ more than one device, it's gotta be the TV. I'm taking it back and getting it swapped out very soon.

theCableGuy

makes me wonder if your horizontal width or alignment is out of spec. I see that a lot on the vertical height, especially at the top of the screen (you get the closed caption data, or white dots, when viewing a local broadcast channel on an HD feed). Anywho'd....