letterbox color?

[webwalker]

In sage client/placeshifter, I can set the background color when I display pillars or letterbox. The feature appears missing from the HD200. Or have I missed something?

In my case it matters, as my CRT based HDTV can (and does) burn in on hard edges like this.

Suggestions?

[Opus4]

There is no support at this time for specifying the bar color outside the video. I don't know whether that can or will change.

I set my STB to output gray bars outside 4x3 video, so those gray bars get recorded into 16x9 recordings.

What I usually do, though, is use custom AR modes to zoom into and/or stretch the video to fill the entire screen. You can interactively edit custom AR modes on the HD100 and HD200 during video playback.

- Andy

[webwalker]

Yea, I had considered editing ZoomA to size correctly for 4:3 but there is also the problem of programming that is shot for 16:9 HD (such as Dirty Jobs) that is broadcast on 4:3 systems and 'hard' letterboxed by the tuner.

I'm thinking that the best way that I can deal with this to program ZoomA to deal with the straight up 16:9 programming embedded in a 4:3 signal. It won't look any crappier than usual.

I'd love to upgrade to DirecTV HD, but not at these prices. :^)

M