Hey, I wonder if it is this stupid "bug" that pops up from time to time: sometimes, I will find SOME, not all, of my SD channels via Dish and OTA to be StretchoVision, and I can NOT change it using the FORMAT button feature--that is UNTIL I can go to an SD channel that is display in 4:3, and then I use the FORMAT button to change it other formats and then BACK to 4:3. Then I tune to the channel that was stretch o Vision and as if by a miracle, that channel now displays as it should--no stretch o Vision. This happened to me just an hour after posting on this thread. And this stupid bug is a pretty frequent one that rears it ugly head many times a week, but I have been so conditioned that I just numbly execute the fix and I don't think of it again. This has been happening for YEARS. It is a BUG. My set Format for SD should NOT change if I do not change it myself, but it will, and when it does, or if I do change the format to take a square box of a picture and have it properly fill the screen as if proper 16:9, but when changed to a different channel, it will display stretch o Vision and the FORMAT command will NOT work, just as if it is flagged not to, but its the bug, not the flag.
Last night, I had tuned to something like 8 or 9 SD channels that were stretcho, (including MeTV that HAD been displaying properly) but should NOT have been while the FORMAT button did NOTHING. Then I remembered the bug/fix and executed it, and all was well with MeTV back to its sorta 4:3 a bit stretched.
Has anyone else encountered this bug? I get it all the bloody time.