Widescreen on 612 RF/Composite output

[SkipperTW]

I know this is not what it was designed for but on my 612, but is there any way to get the aspect ratio for the RF or Composite output to be a widescreen format?

I have a 722 which I use on another TV from the TV2 output as Widescreen (and even though the 612 is designed for 1 TV only, I backfeed my Ch. 3 output to a Small 26” (Widescreen) out in the garage for football games and such). The primary is for the Family room TV that is usually not used much…

Just wondering if anyone has any tips on this.

Thanks all,

[Mark Lamutt]

Skipper - with the 612, you can adjust your HD and SD zoom modes separately (Page Up for the HD zoom modes, Page Down for the SD zoom modes if I remember correctly). Try adjusting your SD zoom mode until you get the aspect ratio you want on your backfed television. (This is exactly the way I have my 612 set up, btw, although I feed an SD television).

[SkipperTW]

I have messed with the standard and zoom... the 612 appears to always assume you have a 4:3 tv hooked up to this (and not a wide screen). So the zoom / stretch zooms and stretches in 4:3 and not wide... I can get it close for HD programming that is native 16:9 but once I go back to an SD formated program it is junk again.

[puckwithahalo]

Try zoom and stretch settings on the tv itself. I think if you play with the settings between the tv and receiver zoom settings you may be able to get it. It may not even be distorted too much depending how you do it since if you can get it, you should end up with what was initally a 16:9 picture on a 16:9 screen. Then again, it would end up land of the fat midgets too. Just a thought on something to try though.

[langlin]

I have messed with the standard and zoom... the 612 appears to always assume you have a 4:3 tv hooked up to this (and not a wide screen). So the zoom / stretch zooms and stretches in 4:3 and not wide... I can get it close for HD programming that is native 16:9 but once I go back to an SD formated program it is junk again.

Set your 612 up as 4:3 on the rf output and leave it that way . Any wide screen programming should then be displayed as "4:3 letterbox" and you "zoom" the garage tv to fill the screen. that's as close as you can come to proper display. Then any 4:3 programming will need to be "un-zoomed" by the tv to match.

[BattleZone]

SD has no "widescreen" mode*; "widescreen" means letterboxing, which would have to be zoomed by the TV, at the expense of resolution.

*anamorphic DVDs are an exception, but they require an HD-capable connection (component or HDMI/DVI) to work.