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Changing the Grey Bars on the Hitachi 50V500 to Black permanently?

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burdell1

Discussion Starter · Feb 23, 2005

When the TV is 4:3 mode, there are grey bars on the sides. I assume this is because they didn't change this from the normal projection TVs (to help prevent burn in.) However, since it is an LCD projection TV, they don't need to have that. There is a setting where you can change the grey bars to black, but as soon as you shut off the TV and turn it back on, they change back to grey. Has anyone found a way to keep them black permanently???(with a firmware update or something like that

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irishrulze

· #2 · Feb 23, 2005

Can't do it bud....try using your cable/sat box to do it and see if that works

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burdell1

Discussion Starter · #3 · Feb 24, 2005

Has anyone asked Hitachi about it?

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burdell1

Discussion Starter · #4 · Mar 20, 2005

Is there any way to change it in the service menu? I looked at the service menu for the first time last night...and saw there was a heading that said 'burn in' (or something like it) and thought it might enable you to change the grey bars to black....has anyone tried that?

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dssxxxx

· #5 · Mar 21, 2005

Not sure on your set, but the newer Hitachi's have a screen saver. They default to Option 1. Option 1 changes the black bars periodically to grey bars. They keep changing to prevent image burn. You can opt to have them grey and/or black. Check where and/if you have screen saver on your set. You can do what you're asking in that setting.

Good luck.

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