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July 28, 2006
Schneider widescreen fix
For anyone with a widescreen Schneider television, as sold in Asda a few years ago. Do you have problems with aspect-ratio switching? I used to have to manually switch through the various widescreen options every time I switched on - what a pain. Here's the fix - on the SCART plug that goes into the TV, locate pin 8 (often indicated on the connector or else look it up here) and carefully apply a sliver of sellotape over it to insulate the contact. Plug it back into the TV. Now every time you switch on you should get widescreen-mode - no vertical stretching. You may still be able to show 4:3 images by switching at your set-top box end, as I do with my cheapie (but very good) Pacific Freeview decoder.
Posted by Jez at July 28, 2006 01:39 PM