How does one shut off stretch mode since L211?

[DonLandis]

By the results of the poll in the bug report section, I see only 25% of the respondents so far have the problem of their stretch mode being stuck on.

I absolutely hate stretch mode and since L211 my button to toggle through the aspect ratios has been rendered to a permanent stretch, even when the headder says it is normal. In fact the button that used to control the AR's no longer works and my SD programming is permanently in stretch mode.

If those of you who have normal or stretch, what are you doing to switch this? All I want is for the fat image to end and my stretch mode permanently shut off! That is... Not permanently on.

The 12 people so far in the bug report poll are known to me but you have no way to offer any advice on how this is corrected. BTW- Right after L211 downloaded, the button worked but a day later it was stuck in permanent stretch. I suspect the 921 rebooted and fixed the screen to permanent stretch.

Thanks for all your help.

[FaxMan]

Don,

Did you see the discussion of your poll in this thread?
http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=36395

(I thought perhaps not as you didn't post in it).

Might be some help there.

John

[Mark Lamutt]

Don - a reboot for me always brings normal mode back to normal when watching SD. I reboot when in SD output mode.

[AVJohnnie]

Don - I think I may have just discovered an answer on this. Go into the Display setup and verify that you are still set to 16x9. On my 921, L211 seems to have changed it to 4x3#1 (in SD mode). I switched it back to 16x9 and the “*” format immediately became functional again. But since I just discovered this, I don’t know if the nightly reboot will re-foobar the setting again or not (I suspicion maybe so, since everybody seems to believe that day-1 after L211 was okay, and day-2 was not.)

Hope this helps,
John

[DalePuckett]

They look like crap and the format button will not work. The format is set to normal with grey bars but it STRETCHED. Everyone looks 30 pounds heavier.

I checked the display set up and it was still set to 16 x 9. I toggled it to 4 X 3 #2 and the 480i signals looked more normal, but the 480p signals only filled the middle of the screen. I went back to 16 x 9 and the format button still did not work as mentioned above.

I did reboot the other day and it fixed it temporarily but the problem came right back within a day.

This MUST be fixed!

Dale

[DonLandis]

AVJohnnie-
Sorry that is not my problem cause- I checked that first and remain in 16x9 720P as normal for me but the Normal is actually stretched and the * has no effect.

Mark- I will try the reboot later tonight when my 921 is done recording.
Did you really accept rebooting as a fix to the switch between SD channels and HD channels now? Doesn't the reboot in the early morning hours work anymore?

Seems this latest software release is the worst one yet for fixes vs. stuff they break that once worked. Amazing these things were not observed by the beta testers prior to release and if they were, even more amazing that they ignored your reports on it and released anyway. Somehow I feel it is the latter. Such an obvious bug that breaks something that once worked yet it was not fixed before release. Mark, when I screw up and do a TV show and it airs with a simple typo in a spelling of even a minor word in the program, all stops until I get a fix for it pronto on the air at no charge. The screwups on what gets broken by these guys in the software updates is getting quite annoying.


Sorry for my confusion on the discussion threads. I suppose there were so many variations of this same bug report I missed it. It probably would be too much to ask if all the threads referencing the L211 breakage of aspect ratio be combined.

[DonLandis]

Please let this thread die.

I will continue to post broken stretch/normal modes from L211 here:

http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=36395