Videos play in Full Screen..want Wide screen!!

Have a Studio 1737...whenever I play a Dvd or a downloaded video the video plays with solid black bars on the left and right side..I assume this is full screen! I want to watch everything in Wide screen ( black bars on top running horizontally) have gone into my settings etc..including my ATI ( Catalyst Control Center) and tweaked settings still no joy! Even on sites like You tube the same happens! Any ideas? Also posted a while ago on a reliable free data backup site! Had Dell Data Safe on-line not impressed and dumped it! Any thoughts? Cheers!

 

I belive that what you are talking about is because the videos are in a low resolution. Therefor they cannot stretch to the full display. Anyway, you cannot just take a regular video and make it widescreen, it needs to be in widescreen format already.

But your problem is because the video's resolutions arent large enough to fit the whole screen (or widescreen area), so the actual size, is smaller than the screen, which causes a border.

 

the problem is internet videos are uploaded in small files.
you cant stretch then ino full screen. it has nothing to do with your computer. of course you can change laptop scrren to fix aspect ratio to play games or watching movies in 16:9 mode.

 

Cheers! How do I change laptop aspect ratio? I'm kinda new to this excuse my ignorance!

 

Hey, my screen is 16:10 ratio and I usually watch things through VLC where under video it has the option to change aspect ratios. Play around and see what you like. I personally change 4:3 to 16:9 a lot but my flatmate can't stand the slight image stretching. Meh?