hdmi issue on tv

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I have an old philips 42" plasma that has served me flawlessly for nearly 6 years (model 42pfp5532d). I have a raspberry pi hooked up to one of the hdmi ports via a receiver and a ps3 straight into the other hdmi port. TV is just viewed via the internal Freeview.

Everything has worked flawlessly until today, where the picture via hdmi doesn't fill the screen. At first I thought our babysitter had been faffing around with some settings, but now think it's something a bit more. When switched on to either hdmi input, there are grey bars either side of the picture. Resolution is set to 720p on both the pi and the ps3. It does exactly the same on either input. If you switch to the TV tuner, it does the same for roughly a second but then resizes the image to fit the screen. It's not chopping anything off, just seems to be making a hash of the aspect ratio!

I've tried a factory reset, been into the secret service menu and there's nothing in any menu to tweak or adjust resolutions etc. Anyone else seen this or have any suggestions? I'm guessing it's the hdmi inputs that are goosed, but just thought I'd ask around first.

An image of what it's doing...

http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/60480902@N04/9232212358/
 
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It's the TV resizing to 4:3. There will be a button on the TV remote to set the aspect ratio. You will need to press that t(possibly a bumber of times) to get the aspect ratio right (you will want it on something like auto/fill/16:9 - the exact name varies from TV to TV).
 
It really was that simple :)

Someone had set it to 4:3, but what threw me was the fact that Freeview was setting itself to 16:9, but hdmi was staying at 4:3.

It's not the original remote either so struggled to find the AR button... All good now though! The old girl lives to see another day, been a fantastic tv :)
 
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