Astro On Demand Is A Widescreen Channel

Written by Nicholas Chan on July 23, 2007 – 3:09 pm -

Do you know that Astro On Demand is actually a widescreen channel? All channel in Astro is standard 4:3 screen size, if you watch Astro on a widescreen LCD the object people all become fat fat one.

While for Astro On Demand channel, if you watching it on normal screen TV, you will see 2 bar above and below. That is their technique for you to watch 16:9 widescreen show on your widescreen plasma/LCD tv.

If you are using a Samsung TV, press P.Size for Zoom, then you will see the bar removed. If other TV, find Zoom or Picture Size or something about zoom. But after zoom, you can’t read the subtitle as the subtitle is at the black bar area.

Shiok LO! If all channel like that ah, then its a very good reason for changing my living room tv to a widescreen one.

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3 Responses to “Astro On Demand Is A Widescreen Channel”

  1. By Ichitaka Leingod on Jul 24, 2007 | Reply

    wow, got functions like that one ka? so u also got astro at home? XD

  2. By Nicholas on Jul 26, 2007 | Reply

    yaya, u mus set the tv one.

  3. By passing-by on Nov 6, 2008 | Reply

    nope, it isnt a wide screen channel. It is just a normal 4:3 channel with the widescreen content being converted to 4:3 format (that is letterboxed/black bars) added to the video. A proper widescreen channel is 16:9, where if u select 16:9 mode on ure lcd/plasma tvs… it will display fully and properly, and not to mention, subtitles wont be cut off.

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