recording stuff in widescreen

[bartel33]

hello

hope someone can help me.

i set my set top box to 4:3 (letter box) and

have recorded a lot of stuff on a normal tv, 4:3.

now i have a widescreen tv and when i play the reocored stuff i

still get the black bars top and bottom.

now i change my set top box to 16:9 and recorded some stuff and

played it back on my widescreen tv and that fixed the problem.

but the thing is i record stuff in the other room on my normal 4:3 tv.

now if i have my set top box set to 16:9 everthing i watch is stretched.

so does this mean all the stuff i have recorded in 4:3 letterbox is going

to have the black bars when i play on my widescreen tv.

or now when i record stuff i have to watch it stretched.

just wondering is there somthing i can do about this or a dvd recorder i

can get that can fix this or should i just get another widescreen tv.

i hope that makes sence.

thanks
bartel33

[andw]

I think that by the sounds of it the only thing you can do is see what zoom modes your TV has.
Some of them will have a zoom setting that will cater for what you want to do.
Some wont.