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Originally Posted by Jamespic1118
I've had my tv for a few months, it's been hooked the COX HDDVR reciever with the component cables it came with. The other day my brother hooked up a HDMI cable to it. The HD channels came it a lot better, but when I put the channel on a SD channel (espn or something) the black bars on the side of the TV come up. So I put the component cables back and now it's the same problem.....any way to fix this?
Thanks in advance.
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Well, the aspect ratio of your HDTV is 16:9, and a lot of SD programming is in 4:3 so those programs will be pillarboxed on your TV-- you can't technically "fix" this. This will happen whether you use HDMI or component. You could use your TV's aspect modes (something like "wide" or "stretch") to fill the screen with 4:3 material, but then everything will be 33% wider than it should be. Otherwise, just live with the pillarbox-- they are completely normal.