Does widescreen switching work?

[Chris]

I just bought a widescreen TV, only to find that vomp doesn't seem able to tell the TV to switch aspect ratio... Anyone else with wide screen switching problems?

[riban]

Welcome to the world of reduced height TV.

Widescreen switching is fine on my setup. I have the MVP straight into one of the TV SCART connectors and leave the TV set to auto mode. The MVP is set to 16:9.

When I feed a video source (like MVP or DVD) to the TV via another device (like my DTT STB which has 2 SCARTs) the TV aspect ratio switching follows what the inserted box says. (Obvious really. I don't have enough SCARTS on the TV though.)

Walt

[Chris]

Yeah, there aren't enough scarts on anything.

Actually I calculated what screen size I wanted based on keeping the vertical size the same So now I have a rather big widescreen for this room....

[MartenR]

I think vomp is working correctly, but there TV manufactures, who think that normal 4:3 should be stretched to 16:9 (most costumers don't want black bars) and they only zoom up letterboxed material (my neighbors tv behaves likes this).

Marten

[Chris]

Just for future reference, I found the problem. My MVP goes through an electronic SCART switchbox before getting to the TV, and the switchbox doesn't pass SCART pin 8 through, so the signals weren't making it to the TV.

As such I spent some time looking at the WSS standard this evening...... I guess this is something that should be done anyway for any non-SCART users.