Very easy question

[darkserpant]

I am not home right now or I would check. What screen format is the ps3 set up for when you bring home from the store. 4:3 or 16:9? The reason I'm asking is because I didn't change it when setting it up for the first time. I have a 50" lcd widescreen. And I watched Fantastic Four RotSS so far and that movie filled the screen. So maybe the ps3 is defaulted to 16:9. Just curious. Thanks

[efs5030]

its 16:9 default you have to change it to 4:3

[Carsonal]

Moved to PS3 help section.
Thats what its there for

[Black Beard]

its 16:9 default you have to change it to 4:3

Really - I could have sworn I had to adjust something in the display settings of my PS3 to get rid of "black bars" on the display of my Samsung 16:9 LCD TV (which doesn't auto upscale).

I've seen some TV's that "upscale" 4:3 signals so they fill the entire screen - if your TV does this, and you PS3 isn't set to display 16:9 by default you may actually be seeing a distorted image because your TV is stretching the signal to fit the screen. And you might not even notice it - the amount of people I've seen with widescreen PC monitors still displaying 1024*768 (or equivalent) resolution, and don't seem to notice it's distorted is amazing.

To the OP - if I was you, I'd check your PS3 display settings next time just incase.

[Alpha2]

It depends on how you connect it the first time. if it dosent detect HDMI it will instantly go to standard def, 4:3. This will alow you to do you first time set-up that will take you to the highest def depending on which ever connection you actually are using.