Widescreen movies on widescreen tv?

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

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.

you know what... "That's GREAT!"

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.

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.