"aether" wrote in message
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You might also post the brand and model, along with the sorce for the
signal. What is the HD source, what resolution, and what do you mean
by
switching to widescreen. All HD is widescreen.

It's a 30" Philips widescreen. (model: 30PW862H)

As for the switching; my particular cable provider only offers a couple
channels in HDTV, so I haven't made the switch yet. So, when the video
game console is utilized (Xbox), which is hooked up via the
'High-definition pack', 480p mode is engaged -- and it's full screen.
Whereas the digital cable is set at 4:3 because I like the resolution
better.

So you are watching 4:3 signals and setting your television to fill the
entire screen when you see this distortion? If this is so, you are seeing
exactly what I described earlier, a combination of artifacts that have
nothing to do with the CRT. The image is intentionally distorted more at
the sides to fill the screen with less "fattening" of the primary image area
in the center. This distortion combined with the compression in the digital
cable, which will also give up more data at the edges, gives you the effect
that you are seeing. Get HD.

Leonard