RCA HD Receiver Screen Format, With a 43 Ratio TV or Monitor, With a 169 ratio TV or Monitor

SYSTEM OPTIONS AND PREFERENCES

SCREEN FORMAT

Your selection in the Screen Format menu depends on the type of TV or monitor you are using with your HD receiver.

With a 4:3 Ratio TV or Monitor

If you are using a 4:3 ratio TV or monitor and receive an image with a 16:9 ratio, you need to specify how the image is displayed.

Letterbox Choose this when receiving a 16:9 image and you want to see the original wide format. Letterboxing shrinks the picture so the entire image will fit on the screen. Black panels appear at the top and bottom of the screen.

Cropped Choose this when receiving a 16:9 image and you want the wide movie format to fill the entire screen. Left and right portions of the picture is cropped, or cut.

With a 16:9 ratio TV or Monitor

If you are using a 16:9 ratio TV or monitor and receive an image with a 4:3 aspect ratio, the image will be displayed at the 4:3 ratio on your monitor unless you specify otherwise. The Screen Format menu allows you to adjust the image through the following options:

Normal Choose this when receiving a 4:3 image and you want the on-screen appearance of the video to be a centered picture with side panels (blank areas) on the right and left sides.

Full Choose this when you want the television to adjust the 4:3 image horizontally so it fills your 16:9 screen. No side panels will be added, and the image is vertically unaltered. This setting is especially useful for viewing 4:3 formatted DVDs.

Fill Choose this when receiving a 4:3 image and you do not want side panels on the right and left sides of the screen. The television will adjust the image both horizontally and vertically so it fills the height and width of your 16:9 screen with no side panels added. It will also maintain the correct image proportion. Use with material such as laserdiscs or VCR tapes.

4:3 ratio

16:9 ratio

Some digital (ATSC format) stations may transmit 4:3 images in a way that will not allow expansion and you will be unable to adjust the screen format.

CAPTION DISPLAY

The Caption Display menu displays a choice list that lets you choose when closed captioning information is shown on the screen.

On Always Captioning information is shown always, when available.

On When Muted Captioning information is only shown when the TV’s sound is muted, when available. (To mute the sound, press the MUTE button on the remote control.)

Off No captioning information is displayed.

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