lock aspect ratio

[NWilz]

does anyone know if u can lock the aspect ratio on samsung tvs, i dont know the model number right now. im in college and my roomate and his friends always stretch the picture and like most of u it annoys the hell out of me, we only get the locale channels in hd so all the other channels are SD and 4:3

[UniqueAlias]

Not really sure but there should be an option on the remote or the TV menu. It's probably different for all samsung TVs though.

[Josh Z]

How are you receiving your TV signal? Cable, satellite, or over-the-air? My cable box has an option to output SD channels as SD and HD channels as HD, or it can upconvert all SD to HD. If you do the latter, the TV sees everything as HD and locks into 16:9. If you send them each in their native formats, my TV (a Sharp) will remember whatever the last aspect ratio setting used for each was. So it will pillarbox SD signals and leave HD as 16:9. I'm sure that's pretty common.

However, if the issue is that your roomates keep changing the set to stretch mode when you've left it in pillarbox, I don't believe there's going to be a way to lock them out from changing that setting. Except maybe removing that button from the remote.

[Rich86]

does anyone know if u can lock the aspect ratio on samsung tvs, i dont know the model number right now. im in college and my roomate and his friends always stretch the picture and like most of u it annoys the hell out of me, we only get the locale channels in hd so all the other channels are SD and 4:3

I do not have a Samsung TV, but my Sharp has a setting operated from the remote control to determine how an input signal is displayed on the screen. The button on the remote says "view mode" - and I leave it set at "dot by dot" to always retain the original aspect ratio of the source material.
As Josh pointed out - that won't stop anyone from changing to some "stretch" mode (which I also refuse to watch) so I just change it back.

[Josh Z]

I do not have a Samsung TV, but my Sharp has a setting operated from the remote control to determine how an input signal is displayed on the screen. The button on the remote says "view mode" - and I leave it set at "dot by dot" to always retain the original aspect ratio of the source material.

Dot-by-dot only works on HD signals, not SD, FYI. It literally means that each pixel from the source gets displayed as-is with no scaling. If you were to use that on an SD signal, the 720x480 picture would appear in a tiny box in the middle of the screen.

[AV_Integrated]

Dot-by-dot only works on HD signals, not SD, FYI. It literally means that each pixel from the source gets displayed as-is with no scaling. If you were to use that on an SD signal, the 720x480 picture would appear in a tiny box in the middle of the screen.

Yup, that's how it looks on SD signals, and on 720p signals on a 1080p display.

[NWilz]

thanks guys unfortunately we dont have cable boxes so the only seems is that if i want to remove the button

ps he just did it again

[Spader]

thanks guys unfortunately we dont have cable boxes so the only seems is that if i want to remove the button

ps he just did it again

I've got a Samsung 37" 1080p LCD - UK model. It is possible, there is a mode called "Just Scan" in the picture size options but it's only available on the HDMI inputs, it doesn't appear when cycling through component/SVide etc.

Setting to Just Scan will display 4:3 as 4:3 and 16:9 as 16:9. It's also the only way you can watch DVDs with odd aspect ratios - like the first 2 James Bond flicks, and 70s Werner Herzog films, without stretching them to 16:9.

I've never tried it with TV reception however, as I don't have my TV tuned or have cable/sky.