kde Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 Why am I seeing black bars at the top and bottom of my screen when watching Blu Ray disc? PS3 slim to UMC-1 to Pioneer Plasma. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornfedksboy Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 Its due to the aspect ratio of the movie content vs your TV. I believe you should be able to change that in your BRD player and/or TV and/or receiver content menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Youthman Posted May 4, 2011 Moderators Share Posted May 4, 2011 Check out this info. Your TV is in 1.78:1 (16:9) aspect ratio and most blurays are 2.35:1. Since the movie is wider than your TV will allow, it fills the screen to the width of the TV resulting in bars on top and bottom of the image. The only way around that is to go with a 2.35:1 projection screen. But with a 2.35:1 screen, you will get black bars on the sides when watching a 1.78:1 movie. As you can see on the screenshot from my screen, the image fills the entire width and height of the screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kde Posted May 4, 2011 Author Share Posted May 4, 2011 So... is there no way to get rid of the bars with my current tv (Pioneer PDP-5060)? I have played with all the settings I know and can't remove the bars... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 If you blow the picture up large enough to eliminate the black bars, you'll loose a lot of content that's on the side of the picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Youthman Posted May 4, 2011 Moderators Share Posted May 4, 2011 Unfortunately, no....at least not without distorting the picture. Some TV's have a "Stretch" or "Zoom" that will allow you to fill more of the area. Problem is it will either stretch the image height (which makes images look taller and unproportional) or zoom in, but as stated, you lose content on the sides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJkizak Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 It's pretty hard to violate the physical laws and constants that exist in our Milky Way galaxy without distorting the TV picture that took us 2 billion years to get linearity accurate to better than 1%. But some of the controls on TV sets can violate those laws in less than 10 seconds. JJK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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