WIDE Operations

Watching with a wide screen (manual)

With this function, you can select one of four screen sizes.

When watching videos or digital video discs

1.Press the 2-D5(WIDE) button on the remote controller.

2.Within 3 seconds ...

Press the 2-D5(WIDE) button again. The screen size switches as follows:

ZOOM NORMAL FULL STADIUM

ZOOM size screen

The picture is expanded in the horizontal and vertical di- rection, maintaining the original proportions.

* Use this for theater size (wide) movies, etc.

NORMAL size screen (4:3)

The normal size screen is displayed.

*The picture has the same size as video pictures with a 4 : 3 aspect ratio.

FULL size screen

The image is expanded in the horizontal direction.

*Images compressed in the horizontal direction ("squeezed images") are expanded in the horizontal direction and displayed on the entire screen. (Normal images are ex- panded in the horizontal direction.)

STADIUM size screen

The picture is expanded in the horizontal and vertical di- rections at different ratios.

*Use this for watching normal video programs (4:3) with a wide screen.

When watching high definition video source

1. Press the "WIDE" button on the remote controller.

FULL size screen (16 : 9)

The full size screen is displayed.

* The picture has the same size as video pictures (16 : 9).

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PD4292D specifications

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