if you have a 4:3 TV (normal non-
HDTV) and it's got bars, set it for widescreen and re-attempt zoom (same with your blu-ray player or DVD). if you have a widescreen with bars and you cannot zoom, try setting the blu-ray/DVD or converter to 4:3 standard def and try again with zoom. sadly that's the only way. it may have to be done back and forth depending on the broadcast or disc but so far that's the only way i can get the bars gone. my TVs are all older CRTs, one's a 19" TV/VCR and the other is a 1991 TouchTune 25" TV. and zooming even in widescreen mode results in no perceiveable quality drop. but then i cannot perceive non-
HD and
HD anyways, save for the terrible standard def picture on most HDTVs. grainy as hell.
Put a 25" console with a SD digital picture next to a 45" widescreen with a
HD picture, i cannot see the difference. someone tested me at Best Buy and asked me if i could see the difference in
HD, i said "the screen's bigger" much to the guy's disappointment.
