Comments on: Default TV/Video Zoom Registry Settings

By: Andrew Mc

Andrew Mc — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:11:55 +0000

Hi, I have had windows 7 reinstalled (two weeks ago) after having to replace a motherboard,etc and only have the zoom issue now. Beforehand it kept the zoom 3 setting no worries, without resetting to zoom 1 like it does now. I will continue to play with basic settings and see what I can find out.

Andrew.

By: leinieman

leinieman — Sun, 09 May 2010 13:58:02 +0000

It’s extremely irritating and difficult to explain to my wife who wants to go back to her (4) VCR’s. Helllp!

By: Terrman

Terrman — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:56:08 +0000

This worked fine in Vista, but is apparently broken (or excluded) in Win7? Geez Microsoft, how did you let this fall through the cracks and why hasn’t an update/fix be produced?

I mean come on, this is a real issue – fix it!

By: Eros

Eros — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:01:09 +0000

So if i understand, there’s no solution to assign a particular zoom setting to a specific channel and store this setting for future use ?

I’m getting crazy to find out a solution as i already found for different DVB players (as ProgDVB does), to set ZOOM on a CHANNEL and auto save it.

If anyone got the solution…please drop me a line…
Thanks

By: Richard Miller

Richard Miller — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:19:06 +0000

DirecTV guide in Media Center has now removed the HD logo, check your guide in Win7 and see if the aspect ratio fixed.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:19:28 +0000

In the UK on terrestrial freeview, which transmits aspect ratio flags, stepping up and down with the Ch+/Ch- buttons results in MC7 ignoring the aspect ratio. However, changing channel from a 16:9 programme to another channel showing 4:3 picture results in the correct aspect ratio being set.
I think there might be something a bit more fundamental going one here!

By: Bear64

Bear64 — Fri, 01 May 2009 03:57:47 +0000

Thanks for the update Michael. I think these keys are completely ignored, but appreciate your effort.

Stephen

By: Richard Miller

Richard Miller — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:24:37 +0000

Seeing the same problem, I am using ASTC and DirecTV HD (using S-Video cable) Media Center is completely ignoring the registry settings.
DirecTV is set to zoom 3 and ASTC is set to zoom 1, if I channel up or down to a HD channel on DirecTV say “CNN HD” channel 202 Media Center will ignore the zoom 3 setting in the registry and Media Center thing it’s a real HD channel will reset the registry for TV to zoom 1

By: PAtriarken

PAtriarken — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:54:19 +0000

The default zoomlevel regentries, gets changed each time you are pressing the zoom button(via Details or directly using ctrl+shift+z)

Modifying these entries via regedit is stupid at best. You will need a background application to store and maintain a mirror registry entries allong side say a channel entry. The Zoom level preference for a particular channel can then be invoked after the channel changes.

By: StephenBarash

StephenBarash — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:55:56 +0000

Doesn’t work for me. Made the change, started MC and I change a channel to an SD to normal, and all the channels including the HD channels change to normal. Change a channel to zoom, and they all change to zoom.

Hmm, maybe its because my HD channels come from QAM and not ATSC?