How to adjust Aspect Ratio in Windows Media Center

"The Method for Windows Media Player 12, found in Windows7 Beta through RTM, is buried: Tools>Options>DevicesTab>Display>Properties.
The horizontal slider controls the aspect ratio.

Is Windows Media Player 12 remote friendly?

As far as windows media center goes currently I'm at a loss. Ctrl+Dragging as you mentioned does change it between at least two modes (wide and square). But does it carry over to full screen, I cannot tell. Finicky environment, too few controls for my liking; although I do like some of its intent.

I did find a new way to the program. It does not like to be ctl+drug across multiple monitors, it blacks out until restart of the video. (Third option controls visible but won't redisplay the image.)

Sorry if this hasn't helped."

"I hesitate to suggest this because it seems too obvious, and maybe you are looking for more fine grained control over the AR, but as it hasn't even been addressed yet...

There are 4 pre-set Aspect Ratio adjustments under 'Zoom' (Press MORE on remote, or right-click on the video)

Normal
Stretch to remove black bars on sides
Stretch to remove black bars on top and bottom
Dynamaic stretch to maintain aspect ration in middle of screen"

"Just a thought. VLC player is supposed to play bad quality videos quite well, and you said that your videos weren't very good. Supposed that you use the VLC player and get a wireless USB mouse to browse though channels. Anyway, the Wikipedia article says this:

In addition to these interfaces, it is possible to control VLC in different ways:

* Configurable hotkeys
* Mouse gestures
* *LIRC and infrared controllers*

Visit the wikipedia page"
"Just a thought. VLC player is supposed to play bad quality videos quite well, and you said that your videos weren't very good. Supposed that you use the VLC player and get a wireless USB mouse to browse though channels. Anyway, the Wikipedia article says this:

In addition to these interfaces, it is possible to control VLC in different ways:

* Configurable hotkeys
* Mouse gestures
* *LIRC and infrared controllers*

Visit the wikipedia page"

"In the start menu, right click on
Media Center and select properties. Shortcut tab, in Target, add
""/widescreen"" to what is already there i.e. ""%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe
/widescreen"".

Reopen Media Center and it should load in 16:9."

"I had an issue like that on my first Media Center PC. My problem was that the video card did not support the 1920x1080 resolution and the only lesser resolution that would work with the tv was 4:3 and not 16:9 causing all video to be stretched out. I ended up buying a new pc for the Media Center PC and the video card that came with it supported 1920x1080 and now everything looks great.

Is it possible that you are not running windows in 1920x1080, or that the resolution you are using is not the native resolution of the TV? If that's the case, the answer is a video card that does support the native resolution."