widescreen movies on widescreen tv?

You have to take into consideration that there some widescreen aspect ratios that are wider than others. Widescreen tv's were mainly designed for HDTV broadcasts which are all 1.85:1 aspect ration, so the screens on all HDTV's are made to match that. Most movies are shot in 2.39:1 aspect ratio, which is wider...a few are 1.85:1. This is why some movies will not have bars at the top while most will.

This is completely normal and you are getting all the picture that you are supposed to be getting.

First off, you must understand that there are two aspect ratios (or formats) in widescreen...one of which will fill your entire screen on a widescreen TV (on your normal tv it might have left two small bars, one on top and one on bottom) and another one that will leave moderate bars on top and bottom (on a normal tv, it would have made the movie a tiny strip going down the middle). This is just the format that the movie was shot in, and really has nothing to do with your tv settings and such. HOWEVER, your tv remote should have an "aspect ratio" or "Wide" button that you can push and your tv will cycle through a few different display types. Please be advised that although you can get your tv to fill the whole screen, your tv is basically stretching or cropping the image, so you'll lose picture quality and even the sides or bottom/top of the image. Hope this helps.

The bars are supposed to be there, they are put there by the makers of the movie. Widescreen is exactly that "Wider" not taller. You are going t oget the same picture you did on your other television only a wider view, think of it as panoramic tv. With that being said the only way to eliminate the bars is to distort the picture with either your DVD player or more likely you TV by stretching it.

depending on the widescreen aspect ratio the movie is filmed in and the supported aspects for your screen, you may or may not still get black bars on your widescreen TV. NO WORRIES! Unless you bought a piece of crap (lots of people own vizio, maxent, westinghouse, anything from wal-mart, sams, target, most of circuit city = crap TVs) TV, you can change the 'aspect ratio' of your television via the remote control.

By consumer rights HDTVs should have a lawsuit for dictating how the user wants to watch there TV there USED to be DVDs sold in Fullscreen this option is still available to other DVDs. It's just peoples way of saying they don't give a damn about you.

u cant get rid of the bars..thats what makes it widescreen...duh!lol

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