Aspect ratio control for VOD

I love that the IMG provides an aspect-ratio control (as previous Motorola boxes on Comcast didn't seem to do).
But, on mine at least, I can't use it when watching VOD.  Is this by design, or is it a bug?
Because HBO is so overprotective about their VOD, I can only get their series in SD letterboxed, which produces a postage samp 4-black-sided picture on my screen.
Message Edited by JoeyK on 03-28-2009 03:42 PM

I don't know if it is by design or not, but it does not work for me either, although I generally never watch anything but HD VOD so it really doesn't matter to me. But I did try it on an SD Starz VOD and sure enough it didn't affect the picture. I don't have HBO so I cannot test that.

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