Widescreen TV?
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I just bought a widescreen tv and put in a dvd in widescreen format. It still has the black bars on the top and bottom! I thought that widescreen movies were formatted that way so that they only showed the bars on regular tv's, but on a widescreen tv, it would fill the screen, like at the movie theater? I have tried all of the zoom features on my dvd player too, some help a little but none of them fill the screen without cropping some of it out. What gives?
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I don't really have an answer for ya Slopoke, I was under the same impression myself. I just looked at my Dynex though, and the Picture Mode as it's labeled on mine just changes the hues and tones rather than the size. I'm gonna pop in a widescreen dvd and see if the same thing happens with mine.
I don't have a widescreen TV poky but I'm pretty sure the definition of widescreen is having those black bars as you call them on the top and bottom.
The reason why it's like that is to preserve quality of film, in the movie theater or a regular TV, when you stretch the picture out to full screen it loses quality, kinda like if you put the youtube player in full screen. I'll check and see exactly what a widescreen TV is supposed to do
This has me a lil baffled too. I'm not a videophile so maybe someone else will know, but I always just assumed that since a movie theater screen is 16x9 shaped, and the new flat panels/widescreen tv's are the same shape, that once you run a video created for that size, it would fill the whole screen without showing the black bars or cropping anything out, but I popped in a widescreen lord of the rings dvd and I still see the black bars too. 
Ok I checked my TV - its a 60" Panasonic. I have 4 options on it
This is what they call H-Fill and it has about a 6" band up top and bottom
this is what they call "Just" and I dunno same 6" band on top and bottom
This is "4.3" and it not only gives me the 6" band on top and bottom but now a 6" band on the side in gray
This is the "Zoom" which gives me the closest to full screen that I can get. I do have a band but its only like 1.5" on the top and bottom only so not bad
I have a 40" Toshiba in the bedroom but I'm pretty sure I would have a pissed off hubby if I flipped on the light.
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What brand TV do you have? I have a widescreen and on my settings I have what they call "picture mode" that will allow me to adjust the screen size.
EDIT: You have to adjust the setting on the TV and not the DVD player.