I got the 40gb PS3. I have a 42" panasonic plasma 720p. I watch TV perfectly, play games perfectly. But, when I play dvd's or blu-ray's I get the black bars at the top and bottom. my previous dvd player played in widescreen and filled the screen. My TV has Just, H-Fill, and Full...and they all show the bars when I use the PS3. The movies are widescreen versions. Never had black bars til the PS3. It's got to be a setting somewhere, but I'm setting up everything like I think I should. Any suggestions? Oh yeah, I am using HDMI cable.
i just watched the movie WAR last night on my PS3 and had full screen on my Philips 42"-settings are 4:3, Movie Expand, Movie Expand 14:9,Superzoom and Widescreen. Im sure if you play around with your TV settings you can sort this out, its Definatley not a PS3 problem.
Sorry, i have the PS3 60GB version, and i know the 40Gb lost a few features buy i doubt this would be one of them. Hopefully you can sort the Panny out!
Originally posted by MUNEYG: I got the 40gb PS3. I have a 42" panasonic plasma 720p. I watch TV perfectly, play games perfectly. But, when I play dvd's or blu-ray's I get the black bars at the top and bottom. my previous dvd player played in widescreen and filled the screen.
If your previous DVD player filled the screen with the same films instead of giving black bars then it was actually displaying in fullscreen not widescreen. The blackbars are used to retain the correct widescreen aspect ratio for a film.
It also depends on the aspect ratio as said before. I'm not sure at the ratios numbers but I do know that some DVDs fill the screen and some don not. I believe that using the DVD upscaler at 720p reduces the size of the screen significantly meany more black bars. Play around with the display settings a little bit.
