Check out your manual - chances are there’s a setting to show you a non-stretched out picture. My Panasonic even has a setting that leaves the (SD) picture alone in the middle with extra stretching on the edges that looks pretty good. (because you pay more attention to the middle of the picture, the side distortions aren’t so noticeable)

We’ve got a setting like that called “panoramic” - it works very well - really sharpens up the picture.

Let me put it this way; I spent a lot of money to get a good TV and if there are things that are not in the manual that can help me get absolutely every cents worth of quality out of the gadget, then I am willing to spend a few hundred bucks to indulge myself. My understanding is that there are tech menus that are only available to service people. I am going to talk to Viszio next week to see if they have a similar service available (from my reading of the brochure that came with the set, they do). I really don’t care how does it just as long as I am satisfied that everything that can be done to improve the quality is being done.

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You can connect your laptop to your HDTV via VGA, DVI, or HDMI, depending on the video support your laptop includes.

Another source for HDTV IPTV, Adobe Media Player, can run on Windows Vista, XP, or MacOS (www.adobe.com/products/mediaplayer).

Have fun!

Several add on video panels stitched around a standard screen right left and bottom and then melded together.

The standard came out way before digital was even a gleam.

Much of the HD stuff out there is also crippled with no HDMI or equal interface to enable full encryption end to end verification and when they finally demand that a bunch of people are not going to be happy when their HD stuff just plays SD only since it can’t do the security handshakes.