“Can the Sony stretch the picture to eliminate letterbox movies?”
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Your UHD TV has this ability to fill the screen with the picture but why would you want to do that? You would only end up truncating the picture in its horizontal mode which would stretch the picture vertically - making the characters appear to be unusually stretched and taller than normal. The bars on top & bottom are indicative of a wide screen picture.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.As far as I know it can't -- but the only reason to do this is if you want the picture to be worse, have less content and be distorted. You do NOT want to eliminate the black bars, doing so will, frankly, make the picture you see be somewhat like the effect of a fun-house mirror -- it would be horrible. The other choice would be to buy non-letterbox movies in the first place; of course that probably means the movies would be DVD's not BluRay or 4KUHD.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.the problem with stretching images like that is you either lose alot of viewing space or it looks terrible. I have not tried to stretch anything on mine yet. Problem is most movies are filmed in that aspect ration so when we watch them in 16:9 we get letter box.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Hi, Mick, Yes, you may reconfigure the aspect ratio on your Sony UBPX800 on the screen settings of your player. For reference see page 21-22 of the link below: https://docs.sony.com/release//Manual_4687309111.pdf. Regards, _Bob
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