@john65pennington I don’t get the History Channel…but I wish. Our cable is only $18 a month….
At whom ever knows…We discovered right away that with the new TV we get a plethora of “new” channels at the “upper end” of the channels. Didn’t take us long to realize they’re the same channels they broadcast at the lower end BUT with different programs playing so they might as well be “new” channels.
OK, my husband is gone for the night. I had the remote to myself. I put it on “normal” because I can’t stand the distortion. However….I was watching a PBS station on the upper channels that was about “Pioneers In Television….” Well, it was showing broadcasts from the 40’s, 50’s 60’s, and early 70’s. When it was showing those, the picture filled the screen from top to bottom, but with black bands along the side. However when it switched to narration, where they were broadcasting whatever recent video they shot in the studio, it filled the entire screen, with no distortion….....
After the show I started moving up and down the upper channels with the ratio set to “normal.” Almost every channel, except that one, showed a picture that went from top to bottom, but left black edges. Then I’d hit a channel that filled the whole screen…then I’d hit one that was just a square picture in the middle of the screen…
What’s bugging me is I want a true picture, no distortion, and if it’s a little smaller than we’re used to, so be it. If there are black bands on the sides, I don’t care. My husband, on the other hand, wants the picture to fill the screen, no matter what…..I’d rather read a book. (Just pissin’ on my own thread here!)