[Kidd Digital]

I watched Gladiator again last night (haven't seen it in a long time) on my Hitachi 42HDT20, and when I switched inputs after it was over, and the black bars remained from the movie.


I played about 30 minutes of fullscreen TV, and they appear to be gone, but I was just curious if this was normal or not. One would think no, but who knows?

 

[Kidd Digital]

Also, the black bars were blacker than the black scenes in the movie... does that indicate that I should do some setting to my DVD player (Pio 563) to get it a bit blacker??

 

[Jeff Atchison]

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Originally posted by Kidd Digital I watched Gladiator again last night (haven't seen it in a long time) on my Hitachi 42HDT20, and when I switched inputs after it was over, and the black bars remained from the movie. I played about 30 minutes of fullscreen TV, and they appear to be gone, but I was just curious if this was normal or not. One would think no, but who knows?

I watch a fair amount of 2.35:1 aspect ratio movies, both DVD and HD, but have never seen any black bars remaining on my Pio 503CMX. Have you adjusted your PDP using AVIA/DVE or Rich's Steaming Rat method? Maybe you are still in "Torch Mode".


Jeff

 

[Kidd Digital]

Nope, I used AVIA to set it up... I could bring the contrast down further though. Maybe that will help.