Jordan88 Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 As my 360 as broken I have now go to watch DVDs on my PC, but watching them on a widescreen TV obviously means I have black bars at the top and bottom. On the 360 it has a letterbox zoom which makes it fill the screen without cutting any off and is still great quality. So does any body know of any video playing software that has a letterbox zoom feature? As I can’t find any and have been looking for hours. Thanks for any help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue_Ninja0 Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 How can you have black bars on top and bottom of the screen on a widescreen TV? That should happend if you watch 4:3 stuff on 16:9 tvs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 VLC and Winamp both allow you to adjust your aspect ratio... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cube Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 How can you have black bars on top and bottom of the screen on a widescreen TV? That should happend if you watch 4:3 stuff on 16:9 tvs. Because Films are generally wider than Widescreen TVs. However, the only way to get rid of them is by cutting the edges off, or distorting the image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Odwin Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 Because Films are generally wider than Widescreen TVs. However, the only way to get rid of them is by cutting the edges off, or distorting the image. Yeah, a lot of films have a 2.35:1 aspect ratio. If you mess with the aspect ratio everything will look stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan88 Posted February 17, 2007 Author Share Posted February 17, 2007 I’ve sorted it now (thanks to Shorty for the VLC suggestion). I know you aren’t really supposed to mess around with the aspect ratio as it will usually make it look bad, but I am using 4:3 aspect ratio and cropping it to 16:9 and it looks rather good and doesn’t cut off any of the picture. Thanks for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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