Plasma TV Picture makes people look big?

Question

I got a plasma tv and the objects and people look stretched out, fat, what can be done to correct this?

Answer 1

Change the display settings! You should play with the wide and full mode settings and see which one you like. You have 3 main options on most wide-screen (16:9) TVs:



1. let the TV put black bars on the left and right of the picture (full-screen mode or 4:3)...then everyone will be skinny again, but you wont be using all the screen area of your TV.



2. Zoom in to the picture (full-zoom of 4:3 zoom)... then everyone is skinny again, and you are using all of your screen...but you can't see the very top and the very bottom of the picture (like the sports ticker)



3. Leave it on wide-screen (16:9) and see all of the picture and use all of the screen, but your TV has to 'stretch' the pixels to make it fit the 16:9 screen.



My choice is option #1 ...which is dot-for-dot - so the resolution is higher and the image is not distorted.

Answer 2

New TVs are wider than older-style TVs. Without getting into detail, they are about 2/3 wider than an old TV. Your TV has been set to stretch the image to fit to the edges of the screen to the left and right. On your remote there will be a botton the says "aspect", "ratio", "aspect ratio", or "zoom". By hitting this button, your TV will change the way it is displaying the signal, which is made for an older, more square, TV.



The best solution is to get a cable box and subscribe to the High-Definition package, which will give you access to certain channels that will fill the entire screen without stretching. If you have a cable box, it might not be hooked up using the proper wiring and cables.

Answer 3

Check your manual for changing stretch mode.

Usually plasmas will have a zoom, full, h-fill, just, and pillar box mode, or some mix of these modes.



Just play around with these modes and see which you like best.



Most likely right now you are in h-fill or full mode, which stretches everything out from a 4:3 aspect ratio (standard definition) to 16:9 aspect ratio (the shape of your plasma). This will make everything look fatter.



Be aware that if you use the pillar box setting, you might cause your plasma to burn-in. The pillar box setting will set the image to 4:3, and leave black bars on the sides of the screen. Usually there is a setting to make the black bars gray, so make sure you do this to reduce the likelihood of burn-in.



Plasmas are most prone to burn-in during the first 1000 hours of use. To best prevent burn-in, use one of the stretch modes that uses the entire screen during the first 1000 hours of use. Then if you haven't gotten use to it yet, go ahead and use the pillar box mode.



Good luck.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

you have a setting for display size or aspect ratio. If you're viewing a 4:3 (standard NTSC) program, and you have it setup to fill the screen, guess where the non-linearity is coming from? That's right! Change the aspect to 4:3 when viewing 4:3, other wise everything is stretched (non-linear).

Answer 6

your new plasma has a 16:9 widescreen format, the show you were watching was a 4:3 full screen. you have to set the new tv to whatever format you are watching.

Answer 7

Your right. I noticed it too. People seem a little more fatter on the plasma tv. Sorry I dont know how to fix it.