I second this request.
With the latest software, a 16:9 feature was added. This feature reduces the the height of the image and introduces black bars at the top (in full screen mode).
What I need is the opposite: When using the slingplayer in full screen mode on a wide screen tv, the image is stretched, making people fat. I am not on TV a lot, but still I hate to look at it 
Now, when there is a movie in 16:9, I still have the black bars at the top, and the image still appears stretched. This is because the slingplayer formats it in 4:3, and the display then stretches it to 16:9. So what I need is the Slingplayer to vertically stretch the image so that the bars disappear. This means that in 4:3 or window mode you see thin and tall people, but in 16:9 full screen everything is perfectly normal.
So the player needs a "16:9 full screen stretch" option where it cuts off the top and bottom 17%, and then stretches the remainder to the full height of the display.
This would allow the viewing of 16:9 content on 16:9 displays without the black bars and without aspect ratio distortion.
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June 16, 2006 4:26 PM
Are you sure you have a screen with a 16:9 aspect ratio? The aspect ratio of most "widescreen" notebooks isn't 16:9. You can do your own math, but here's an example. A 16:9 screen with a width of 1280 pixels would be 720 pixels wide. My VAIO notebook is 1280 x 800, so a 16:9 image displayed from edge to edge leaves a small amount of screen height left over.
I have my tuner set to "Native", 16:9 TV, and "Stretch" with the Slingbox set to 16:9 on my widescreen notebook. The picture shows up as it should, with a very little black stripe at the bottom in full-screen mode.
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June 16, 2006 6:14 PM
Bancado,
Thanks for the explanation - it helped me understand this a little better. I have my widescreen laptop set at 1440 x 900. So, a 16:9 screen with a width of 1440 pixels would be 810 pixels wide. This explains the black bars at the top and bottom of the picture. However, the screen looks noticably stretched.
Maybe it has to do with my tuner settings. I have a Comcast DCT6412, and I am struggling to find these settings, but I am thinking this might make the difference. I hope this makes sense.
Mike
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June 16, 2006 11:00 PM
If I'm reading you right, Funslinger, you must have a scan converter giving you video out on the computer. Does the scan converter support a 16:9 ratio?
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June 17, 2006 2:49 AM
My laptop has vga and s-video outs, neither support a 16:9 resolution.
So for everyone with this problem, an "vertical stretch" is needed to work together with the widescreen tv, which does a "horizontal stretch", thus giving a normal image again.
June 29, 2006 12:41 PM
I just discovered that Media Player Classic actually has the feature. It is called "Scale to 16:9 TV" and it is found under the "View" Menu and "Pan and Scan"
No help for slinging but useful for a lot of other media, since it plays just about everything.
Wait a minute: If you have the applian thingy formerly know as Slingcorder, you can record a show, and then watch it with Media Player Classic. Not that great, but it's a start...
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June 29, 2006 5:56 PM
Funslinger said: Wait a minute: If you have the applian thingy formerly know as Slingcorder...Formerly know as SlingCorder...Ha I like it. Sorta like when Prince went thru that Artist formerly know as phase!
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August 11, 2006 1:18 PM
I want this too - I watch the slingbox on a 16:9 plasma. All that the 16:9 option does in the new player is stretch it horizontally!
There must be a way for the slingbox hardware to know what is a 16:9 picture, and what is a 4:3? Any standalone device I've ever had has been able to do that...
August 11, 2006 4:17 PM
Acording to sling this will be in the next release:
http://www.slingcommunity.com/forum/thread/13934/?page=4#20533
October 3, 2006 7:42 AM
Well, it is not in the 1.4. There is a sizing that cuts off the left and the right parts....
I want to maintain the whole width, cut off top and bottom and stretch it to full height!
Yes this looks funny in 4:3, but wait until you see it on my 16:9 which stretches it to 16:9 width....
October 5, 2006 6:38 PM
Funslinger:
The Letterbox mode will take a 4:3 input with a 16:9 stream in it and crop the top and bottom black and output in a 16:9 window on the screen. If the screen is a Windescreen laptop with widescreen aspect it will fit the whole screen.
If the laptop is a 4:3 resolution laptop it will still show centered with black on top and bottom. I guess what you may need is to take the same as LetterBox and then stretch the output vertically into a 4:3 VGA resolution and that will be fed into the Plasma.
Does that About sum it up.
October 6, 2006 6:44 AM
Yes.
My laptop is 4:3. It is connected to a 16:9 TV
My graphics adapter doesn't support 16:9 resolutions, so to get full screen, my TV has to stretch the 4:3 pc image to be wider.
So if something is showing in letterbox, my TV still shows letterbox, but wider. What I need, is the image to be taller.
So the sling player would get rid of the letterbox by stretching the picture to be taller. This will look like the coneheads on my laptop, but when I put it on my TV, it stretches the picture to be wider. Then I have a 16:9 picture on my tv without the black bars on top and bottom in the right proportions.
So sling player would discard lines 1-40 and 601-640 (estimated number), and would stretch lines 41-600 to fill 640 lines. It would leave the width of the image the same as the original. Output would be 4:3. The feature exists in media player classic and is called "scale to 16:9 tv".
Thanks for your interest.
October 6, 2006 6:59 AM
Maybe you could make it a check/uncheck option:
"4:3 PC to 16:9 TV" with a tickmark in front.
When ticked, all pan&scan settings behave in the above described way. I.e. they would then control the amount of vertical stretch of the image. I think you can get it done by applying a fixed amount of translation to the image. It would be: take the top and bottom 12,5% off and stretch the remainder to 100%. Or vertically stretch the image to 133% and center it (same thing).
December 22, 2006 12:08 PM
I nice- fix it for everyone solution would be allowing variable zoom, much like nero's video viewer. when selected, you move the mouse to the top left of what you want to see, and click, then to the bottom right, and click, and the resulting box gets 'full screened' for the duration of that program. then, when I'm watching a widscreen program playing on a 4:3 channel in letterbox, instead of 4 black bars around the picture (which takes 25% of available pixles) I can watch it on %100 percent of available pixles.
December 23, 2006 1:51 PM
By the way, I discovered that cheap widescreen laptops also stretch their content. The screen is just wider because the pixels are wider, resolution is still 1024x768. These would need this feature as well.
August 28, 2008 3:19 PM
Has anybody experienced installing a 16:9 vertically and what application used to display informations?
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