Assuming you don't also have vertical black bars on the left and the right, then it is because your TV has an aspect ratio of 16:9 (also called 1.78:1) and most movies are filmed at even wider aspect ratios (1.85:1 or 2.35:1 are both very common) so there are still black bars on the top and the bottom because the movie is wider than your HDTV. This is normal.
http://www.practical-home-theater-guide.com/image-files/ivideo-formats.gif Anything wider than 1.78:1 will have black bars on the top and the bottom. Anything narrower than 1.78:1 will have black bars on the left and the right. The only ways around this are either stretching (yuck!) and cropping (eww!). Shawn Dowler Information Designer shawn.dow...@gmail.com http://walkingtowel.org On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 19:48, Nathan England <nat...@paysonlinux.org> wrote: > The subject of this thread is mis-leading as my HTC Hero spell correction > changed my hi-def subject to go-default, go figure.. ha ha > Anyway, I realize the difference between widescreen and fullscreen displays. > I have long prefered the widescreen or letterbox formats to a regular > fullscreen as I like to see the whole image, even if it is a little smaller > on my screen. > What I am wondering about is why all the movies I have that are wide screen > format movies still have horizontal bars (top and bottom) on my new wide > screen 780p lcd hdtv. I thought when I switched from my computer with a > non-hidef resolution to a real tv with the proper resolution for widescreen > that those lines would go away and it would fill my screen. > Nathan > > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Stephen <cryptwo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The horizontal space is not 780 lines but 768 >> >> >> On 2/26/10, Nathan England <nat...@paysonlinux.org> wrote: >> > I recently bought a so called hi-def tv screen and despite its 1360,768 >> > 780p >> > resolution my movies still have the black borders! What gives? I thought >> > having a hi-def wide screen would fix the black borders issue. If I hook >> > up >> > a hdmi connection to a new dvd player, is it still going to have the >> > annoying black borders? Funny when we were all full screen we wanted to >> > be >> > widescreen, now we are widescreen and we want to have a fullscreen! >> > >> >> -- >> Sent from my mobile device >> >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >> >> Stephen >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
