[johnnyonone]

Any idea how you get rid of the annoying 3" black lines on the top and bottom of my screen whilst watching a blu-ray movie on the ps3?

Any way of zooming in the picture?

I have a 42" toshiba, but i am losing 6" off the screen size with the black lines.

Thanks in advance.

[MattTheBeanster]

zoom key on your tv remote?

Unless it's a config error i would guess the bluray is in a > 16:9 ratio which means it'll have black bars, zooming will either stretch the picture or chop the sides off. I wouldn't recommend it as quality suffers and it's not how it was intended but it's your tv/ps3.

[johnnyonone]

No zoom on tv remote and cannot find on ps3.
zoom button on my home cinema, but not playing back the disk via the home cinema- just the optical sound.

I watched angels and demons and sure the aspect ratio of the blu-ray was 2:40 0r 2:45 if that is any help.

[MattTheBeanster]

yep 2:35 - 2:45 would indeed give you bars at the top and bottom, just as a 4:3 would give you bars on the sides. In a cinema they'd just open/close the curtains to the approriate size but a screen is a fixed size.

i don't know if it'll work on bluray but the dvd setting to fix this are shown here, unfortunately i'm not able to check at the moment.

[johnnyonone]

Still having no luck!!!

set my tv to auto format and tried changing the settings on the ps3, but still got the black blocks when playing back a dvd/bluray which as an aspect ratio of 2.40:1, but when i put in rise of the foot soldier dvd with an aspect ratio of 1.85:1 i get a full screen!!!

Is it just the way the film as been recorded?? Anomorphic widesceen???

Thanks for your time.

[MattTheBeanster]

yep 1:78 & 1:85 will be exactly (or very ish) using your entire screen. have a look here as i think it explains better than i am able to. as an aside what make & model of tv do you have?

[johnnyonone]

Hi Matt, my tv is the toshiba 42xv553db.

Thanks for the link. i guess i prefer to watch a film in full screen rather with the black lines present, but i didn't realize how much of the picture you lose with full screen.

Do you get the black lines whilst watching a film with an aspect ratio of 2.40:1 or similar???

Thanks again for your time.

[MattTheBeanster]

Hiya, sorry for the delay in reply, didn't notice you had wrote back. In answer to your question :

2:35 & 2:40 will leave bars at the top and bottom of the screen.
16:9, 1:78, 1:85 will either exactly of very nearly (i say nearly as i think 1:85 with overscan will not show but i didn't want to go into explaining overscan) fit the screen.
And 4:3 & 1:33 will leave bars (big ones) on the left and right sides.

This is how it is with every widescreen screen (both mine included) that i know of that is set to widescreen or dot-by-dot mode. Your zoom/aspect/screen size button on your tv remote will toggle through all the available modes (on mine i can get ride of the top/bottom bars in zoom mode but the picture is stretched).

Sorry i can't be of anymore help but it's a nice tv and if i was you i'd not think of it as lossing height because of bars but gaining all the extra bits on the sides you never knew were there.

[Jac4593]

God, it's how it's supposed to look you twit! If your going to zoom, then your going to lose parts of the film!

[johnnyonone]

Originally Posted by MattTheBeanster

Hiya, sorry for the delay in reply, didn't notice you had wrote back. In answer to your question :

2:35 & 2:40 will leave bars at the top and bottom of the screen.
16:9, 1:78, 1:85 will either exactly of very nearly (i say nearly as i think 1:85 with overscan will not show but i didn't want to go into explaining overscan) fit the screen.
And 4:3 & 1:33 will leave bars (big ones) on the left and right sides.

This is how it is with every widescreen screen (both mine included) that i know of that is set to widescreen or dot-by-dot mode. Your zoom/aspect/screen size button on your tv remote will toggle through all the available modes (on mine i can get ride of the top/bottom bars in zoom mode but the picture is stretched).

Sorry i can't be of anymore help but it's a nice tv and if i was you i'd not think of it as lossing height because of bars but gaining all the extra bits on the sides you never knew were there.

Thanks for your help matt, i have sorted it, when you mentioned buttons on your tv remote i tried them all and one flashed up a menu with wide,superlive 2, cinema 2, 4:3, superlive 1, cinema 1 and 14:9. I purchased my tv from work for £400(ex-display) and could not find the manual for it, thats why i refered to this forum for help. Thanks again for your help.