Samsung Lcd

I need help with my new Samsung LCD TV and my Comcast HD box?

I have a new 22 inch Samsung LCD HDTV. It is widescreen. Now, when I go to an HD channel and watch the HD shows, it fills the entire screen. But, whenever I go to a non-HD channel, I have black bars on the side of the screen. I have an HDTV downstairs, and whether it is on an HD channel or not, it fills the entire screen. Can anybody help me with this?

There are TWO aspect ratio settings....one on the cable box and one on the TV set......

Set the TV to FULL or STANDARD.....

Set the Cable box to 16:9 or Wide.....but be careful to NOTE that some cable boxes have TWO settings in them also.....

One setting for 16:9 pictures and a possible SECOND one to select the size of a 4:3 picture coming from the TV station....if that second setting is set to normal and not STRETCH then you get the pillar boxes......

And some of these damn TV Stations think it's COOOL to lock in a 4:3 picture onto a 16:9 FRAME so you can't remove those damn pillar boxes.....
Local TV stations do a lot of that.....
They SUCK!
And all you can do is Call them and complain until they get so overwhelmed by so many upset customers, that they switch to WideScreen Video.....

That's how you get things done....

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