Samsung SIR-TS360 owner manual TVs showing 43 programs

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Technical overview

16:9 TVs showing 4:3 programs

For a wide screen 16:9 TV showing a standard 4:3 TV program, the program is too tall to fit on the screen. The DIRECTV® HD Receiver gives you 5 ways to fix the problem:

Pillar box: If you choose the pillar box format, the 4:3 image is shrunk until the entire height of the program fits on your TV. Since the aspect ratio of the program is maintained, the image is no longer wide enough to fill your screen, so black/gray bars are seen at the left and right edges of the screen.

Full:	If you set your DIRECTV® HD Receiver to the Full setting, 4:3
	images are stretched to fit the width of the screen, like in the
	Pillar box format. But instead of applying black/gray bars to
	the sides of the screen, the program image is stretched
	horizontally until it is wide enough to fill your screen.
	Your entire TV screen is full, but the program images are a little
	stretched to compensate for the program – to – screen mismatch.
Zoom 1:	This format stretches the left and right edges of the image at an
	equal ratio, keeping the 4:3 aspect ratio intact.
	The top and bottom portions of the image will be cut.
Zoom 2:	This format breaks the 4:3 aspect ratio and stretches the left and
	right edges more than the top and bottom edges of the image to
	view less distorted image than the one in Zoom1.
	The top, bottom, left and right portions of the image will be cut,
	but less than Zoom 1.

Panorama: This format stretches the left and right edges of the image at a certain ratio, keeping the center of the image intact.

The center of the screen will keep the equal ratio and the expansion ratio increases toward the horizontal direction at both sides.

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