Mega sky 580 and Windows Media Centre

First of all, hello to you all! this is the first time i have ever uesd a forum, and i hope that someone can help me.
Just yesturday a purcahsed a mega sky 580, with the intention to use it with windows media centre. It does work ok in media center but there is one thing that bothers me and that is the aspect.
As some chanels are transmitted in widescreen, i.e. BBC 1 you get the two blak lines at the top and bottom of the screen when watching it on a non-widescreen telly, which is fine if the program is in widescreen but if it is not you also get two black lines down the side of the screen. this means that there is a massive amount of the screen not being used.
Is there anyway to change the aspect so that the tv picture fills the screen? ... on my old digi box there an option for centre zoom, is there something like that offered either by the 580 or media centre.
Thanks for any help!

in Media Center, press the (i) More button on your remote, and then select 'Zoom'
BBC broadcasts all its output in 16:9 format, even older recordings which were not widescreen, hence the black side bars on 4:3 shows. the BBC channels are the only ones that do this, other channels will automatically switch from 16:9 to 4:3

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