DVD video has black bars on both top, bottom, left and right - what is wrong?

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DVD video has black bars on both top, bottom, left and right - what is wrong?

04-05-2020, 04:31 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Lee A Stewart

It was called "window boxing."

If you look on the back of the DVD case it will say:

Enhanced for 16x9 TVs or Anamorphic widescreen

That's not always the case. I have quite a few DVDs that state that yet their playback format is letterbox, not windowbox. On the other hand I still have a 1997 DVD of the movie "Ladyhawke". The disc is dual sided (Standard Version and Widescreen Version). The Standard Version playback is pillarbox. The Widescreen Version playback is windowbox.

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