I have just setup my Sky decoder as an S-video tuner in Windows 7 MCE on my HTPC. Unfortunately even though I have my Sky decoder set to output 16:9 video, MCE does not seem to want to stretch it out to fill my screen. It displays it just like a normal 4:3 input except the picture is obviously compressed. I'm wondering if it's either my tuner card or MCE software ignoring the line 23 PAL signal? Has anybody else had much luck?
Windows 7 does seem to try and detect if the input is widescreen but I have found it a bit hit and miss. Maybe try setting it to 4:3 on the sky STB and then back again while playing live TV and see if it wakes it up to it being 16:9.
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Thanks for the suggestions. Tried changing the Sky box settings around and it didn't seem to do anything. The zoom option works well while I'm watching a sky channel which comes in via s-video but when I switch back to a freeview channel from my DVB-S tuners I have to switch the setting back manually. I'll have to do some further digging.
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