To deal with the mismatches that can occur between the shapes of TVs and the aspect ratios of program broadcasts, PHD-200 provides you with a set of screen format controls.

These controls allows you to pick a format to use for both 4:3 TVs showing 16:9 programs, and for 16:9 TVs showing 4:3 programs.

4:3 TVs showing 16:9 programs