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Hey,

When I play 1080p videos on YouTube or a Blu-Ray disc on my PC I still get black bars on my screen.

How is this possible, I have an 1920x1080 22inch screen, I thought the whole screen would be filled.

Expert explanation required Thanks!

you can configure it to exclude the black bars but normally they are there to help keep the aspect ratio from stretching rather then having it 100% full screen and the say the height ratio is too tall which would make the movie look a little silly

I have the same screen and I have those too, but it's not really annoying imo

If you want them to go away have your video player to increase it to the size of your full screen. If you're a ****** and use VLC as your main player keep pressing A til it is perfect. If you're a man and using MPC use the numpad arrows. Up and right makes it bigger in that direction. Down and left makes it smaller in their direction. As for steaming videos you can't do anything about it.

They put black bars there to make the video not look all retarded fullscreen. If it's a small bar you can make it the exact size of your screen/tv and it will still look fine, but movies that have a huge black bar(These make me rage a bit) going the entire screen will make their faces stretch to look like shit.

Most 22 inch monitors arent native 16:9, they are 16:10. Gotta have the black bars in order to reduce the viewable height which changes it to 16:9.

Get a 21:9 screen. That doens't have black bars Philips has one but it costs 4k euro over here.

Thanks for all the replies guys.

[SD]Master_Wong wrote:you can configure it to exclude the black bars but normally they are there to help keep the aspect ratio from stretching rather then having it 100% full screen and the say the height ratio is too tall which would make the movie look a little silly

Yeah, I noticed that, it makes everything stretchy, which is ugly, though I thought having a 16:9 monitor would solve this. But having updated from a 17" to a 22" HD monitor is a great step anyway, and I didn't bought it because of 'no black bars'.

Jaapii wrote:I have the same screen and I have those too, but it's not really annoying imo

No it isn't, I just wanted to know why there were black bars

Toshiharu wrote:If you want them to go away have your video player to increase it to the size of your full screen. If you're a ****** and use VLC as your main player keep pressing A til it is perfect. If you're a man and using MPC use the numpad arrows. Up and right makes it bigger in that direction. Down and left makes it smaller in their direction. As for steaming videos you can't do anything about it.

They put black bars there to make the video not look all retarded fullscreen. If it's a small bar you can make it the exact size of your screen/tv and it will still look fine, but movies that have a huge black bar(These make me rage a bit) going the entire screen will make their faces stretch to look like shit.

lol, its not such a big problem having them, I didn't understand it because BenQ mentioned they would not be there I use WMP as my main player now, going to swap to MPC (because im a man )

KillAndChill wrote:Most 22 inch monitors arent native 16:9, they are 16:10. Gotta have the black bars in order to reduce the viewable height which changes it to 16:9.

Okay, but it sucks because BenQ mentioned in their commercial no black bars anymore, because this is a 16:9 screen

bryanvan wrote:Get a 21:9 screen. That doens't have black bars Philips has one but it costs 4k euro over here.

No prob, going to rob a bank this week anyway