asprinwizard
Novice Member
Hi there,
I'm not sure what I'm asking is possible but I thought this would be the place to ask. I have recently bought a vintage TV to go in the spare room. It was bought for ornamental purposes primarily but I've now got it hooked up to the Sky Q box in the kitchen. To do this the HDMI output is split and then passed through the LAN cable from the kitchen to the bedroom, then converted down to RCA using one of the standard HDMI to AV converters available online. From here it is converted to RF via a modulator and then goes to the TV. Quite a journey I admit but the results are really good, and I'm very happy.
There's just one irritation and that is that the image from the Sky Q is 16:9 and as such appears anamorphic on the TV, with the image stretched vertically. I can live with this but was wondering if there was anywhere in the conversion chain I could crop the image aspect ratio (or letterbox) so it appears correctly on the TV. I have seen that the AV to HDMI converters often have an aspect ratio switch to set the HDMI output, but it seems none of the converters going the other way have this. I guess this is typically set on the source but this is not possible with Sky Q, and in any case since the Sky Q is shared between the bedroom TV and the kitchen TV (which is 16:9) this is not feasible.
I'd therefore be interested to hear from anyone who knows of a way to do this.
Thanks in advance.
I'm not sure what I'm asking is possible but I thought this would be the place to ask. I have recently bought a vintage TV to go in the spare room. It was bought for ornamental purposes primarily but I've now got it hooked up to the Sky Q box in the kitchen. To do this the HDMI output is split and then passed through the LAN cable from the kitchen to the bedroom, then converted down to RCA using one of the standard HDMI to AV converters available online. From here it is converted to RF via a modulator and then goes to the TV. Quite a journey I admit but the results are really good, and I'm very happy.
There's just one irritation and that is that the image from the Sky Q is 16:9 and as such appears anamorphic on the TV, with the image stretched vertically. I can live with this but was wondering if there was anywhere in the conversion chain I could crop the image aspect ratio (or letterbox) so it appears correctly on the TV. I have seen that the AV to HDMI converters often have an aspect ratio switch to set the HDMI output, but it seems none of the converters going the other way have this. I guess this is typically set on the source but this is not possible with Sky Q, and in any case since the Sky Q is shared between the bedroom TV and the kitchen TV (which is 16:9) this is not feasible.
I'd therefore be interested to hear from anyone who knows of a way to do this.
Thanks in advance.