<div dir="ltr"><div>I see alot on my cable Provider, were if they are only provided a widescreen version of the show, but its shown on basic cable, so analog, they will add black bars to the top and bottom of the show, so on a 4:3 screen you only have black bars on the top and bottom, but if you are watching on a widescreen tv, you now have the 4:3 bars to the left and right, and thier 16:9 adjustment bars on the top and bottom. </div>
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<div>My smaller bedroom television (Magnavox 19in widescreen) has a setting called automatic for screen size, and it evaluates the black sections of the screen from time to time, and zooms and shifts to keep the black bars to a minimum. it does this often, and can get annoying shifting between commercials or anything in which there are black edges. </div>
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<div>My Larger 42in only has manual settings, in which they only really work for broadcasts its recieving, if the signal coming to it is 1080p which my dvd player and mythbox do by default the zoom settings are disabled. but for broadcast tv, when they put the bars on I can normally zoom to the point where the image fits. </div>
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<div>Even in the OTA broadcasts, they have older footage or older equipment where everything is not displayed in 16x9, sometimes they just let you view it in 4x3 and place black bars on the edges, more often they are placing thier own banners and such in the unused portion of the screen allowing you to see a 16x9 image with the 4x3 program inside it. </div>
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<div>What will be annoying for me is during bad weather or election coverage, they havent upgraded thier overlay equipment, so your HD show typically gets cut down to 4:3 and then they make it even smaller so they can add thier rolling tickers and marquee updates.</div>
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