How can I make the picture bigger thanks

[Bigazza]

How do I make the picture bigger thanks 

[Chrisee · Accepted solution]

@Bigazza the size of the  picture is controlled by your TV not the Stream puck. However if you want to remove the black bars used for many movies or with some older content made before wide screen TVs were a thing you often can't.as no TV can zoom or stretch a UHD image and many have issues with HD images. However try your TVs aspect ratio control.

The reason is that on average as TVs have got bigger the broadcasters add these bars to frame the picture made in different aspect ratios to fit the 16:9 ratio of modern TVs without distorting or cropping the picture. 

[Bigazza]

It won't let me change the picture size on my tv I carnt watch films like this it's so annoying 

[Bigazza]

Is there no way to reduce the black bars I'm loosing so much screen 

[Padam_Padam]

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@Bigazza wrote:

Is there no way to reduce the black bars I'm loosing so much screen 

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You're not losing screen, you're getting all the filmed image in the ratio which it was intended to be seen. 
Films have been shown in their correct aspect ratios for years now. The days of pan and scan whereby a movie would be zoomed in and cropped to fill a 4:3 screen are gone. 

[Bigazza]

So there is no way to zoom or make bigger or can I change the resolution to make the black border smaller 

[Jporch316]

@Bigazza 

There is no way unless your tv has some kind of zoom function (which manufacturers stopped including a while ago) 

the stream unit does not have this functionality 

[Padam_Padam]

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@Bigazza wrote:

So there is no way to zoom or make bigger or can I change the resolution to make the black border smaller 

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Only if your TV has a zoom function. There is nothing you can change on the puck. 

[Exiled-in-HH]

@Jporch316 which manufactures do not support aspect ratio control... I've never seen a TV that doesn't support aspect ratio control?

[Exiled-in-HH]

@Bigazza what TV model do you have?

[Bigazza]

Sony android 2018 I think or newer 

[TimmyBGood]

@Bigazza 

https://www.sony.co.uk/electronics/support/articles/00031431 

[Jporch316]

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@Exiled-in-HH wrote:

@Jporch316 which manufactures do not support aspect ratio control... I've never seen a TV that doesn't support aspect ratio control?

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The sony android tv judging From the link provided by @TimmyBGood for one 

[Exiled-in-HH]

Really🤔

[Jporch316]

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