I recently upgraded to a 24 monitor that looks great bu DVDs don't come close to filling the screen. I still get huge black bars that take up half the screen, and this is a widescreen monitor! I run it at 1920x1200 resolution. I installed cyberlink power DVD but that only helped a little? What can I do? Would grabbing a high def drive fix the problem by upping the resoultion of the DVDs?
Bars down the bottom and top are normal, because not only are Movies normally at a much wider aspect ratio then normal HDTV's (which are 16:9), but PC widescreens are also a bit taller then HDTV's (16:10), so that adds another small black bar to the bottom and the top to the bars that are already there.
Google VLC, download it and when the movie is playing right-click and go to the aspect ratio tab, select 16:9 or 16:10. It will make full use of the monitor, but it will stretch it some if the movie is not native to that res.
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