PS2 Widescreen problem

Hello there, I have a PS2 Slim and yesterday I bought the component video cable made by Sony for PS2 and PS3. I have a 32 inch Sharp Aquos LCD Screen. So very happy I connected everything and configured the PS2 to use a widescreen TV, inserted GoW II videogame and configured it to be in widescreen and use progressive scan. I started and new game and imagine my surprise when I saw those awful black sidebars, i tried to correct the problem but I couldn't. I want to play PS2 videogames using the whole screen as I do when I use my Wii.

I hope you can help me, you know a lot about videogames, I'll be waiting your answer.Thanks in advance.

I don't have GOW2, does it support widescreen? It should work if it does.... but the TV won't default to FuLL/16:9 mode when you play the PS2, you have to put the TV in Full mode yourself. If you keep in in 4:3 mode you'll still see the bars, and the image will be tall and skinny, in which case put the TV in Full/16:9 mode.

The 16:9 option in the bios of the PS2, really doesn't do anything... I think the only disks that look at that setting are, probably, DVD movies; games never do, anyway.

Also, in some games that support progressive scan mode.... they sometimes put a second menu option.... Some games pop up a secondary window that has you select 4:3 progressive or 16:9 progressive. Games that usually do that are those that have you press the triangle and X during boot of the game, to activate.

Oh and one more thing.... you didn't need component cables to use 16:9 mode on a PS2. But can't beat the image quality of component cables versus the others for the PS2. And progressive scan will only activate with component cables.

set your tv to fullscreen. thats all