ex5000 grey borders

[specialk85]

Is it possible to somehow set it so that the borders that appear at the sides when displaying a 4:3 picture are black instead of grey?

Cheers

[nibblitz]

Yea, adjust the settings on your TV, as its the TV producing the black border when it receives the 4:3 aspect signal .. It probably looks grey if your brightness is up too high, and contrast too low ..

[specialk85]

Originally Posted by nibblitz

Yea, adjust the settings on your TV, as its the TV producing the black border when it receives the 4:3 aspect signal .. It probably looks grey if your brightness is up too high, and contrast too low ..

no the contract and brightness are set perfectly., its blatantly grey (not just light black or something and certainly has nothing to do with colours being set inccorrectly...that I know for sure.

[nibblitz]

The black bars are generated by your TV ..

[specialk85]

Originally Posted by nibblitz

The black bars are generated by your TV ..

The bars are grey with the ex5000 and black with the ex7000 on the same tv. So I want to know if theres a way to change it so that the ex5000 has black borders too as its far better than grey. Maybe through the firmware or something?

[jambutty]

Originally Posted by specialk85

The bars are grey with the ex5000 and black with the ex7000 on the same tv. So I want to know if theres a way to change it so that the ex5000 has black borders too as its far better than grey. Maybe through the firmware or something?

Sussed it for yer mate, wot color border do you want, red blue green orange tangeine pink, cos I got the soloution on this one.

Just hav a boogie down to B&Q and get a 2inch paint brush and a couple a tins a gloss paint, then just paint the grey borders on yer tv screen to any colour you like.
Jam.

ps hit me thanks button for this brilliant tip.

Get a bottle of turps as well cos if yer don't like the colour then just clean it with some turps and then try a diffo colour until yer happy!!!

[specialk85]

Originally Posted by jambutty

Sussed it for yer mate, wot color border do you want, red blue green orange tangeine pink, cos I got the soloution on this one.

Just hav a boogie down to B&Q and get a 2inch paint brush and a couple a tins a gloss paint, then just paint the grey borders on yer tv screen to any colour you like.
Jam.

ps hit me thanks button for this brilliant tip.

Get a bottle of turps as well cos if yer don't like the colour then just clean it with some turps and then try a diffo colour until yer happy!!!

that would make every channel 4:3 which I don't want. thanks for the idea anyway

[jambutty]

that would make every channel 4:3 which I don't want. thanks for the idea anyway

Ok then I just come up with a better idea instead of painting yer tv with paint on the borders.

Get some cardboard and make some strips to fit on the borders and then make a few different coloured ones up, you could do something like red borders for watching cartoons, green borders for sport, blue for movies etc.
and just sellotape em to yer tv and then yer can change them with diffo cardboard strips when yer get board with the colours.
Jam

[nibblitz]

Or, RTFM for your TV's display settings, like I mentioned before its your TV creating the Black Borders..
:-)

Maybe if you mention what TV you have then maybe somebody might look it up for you, lol ..

[specialk85]

Originally Posted by nibblitz

Or, RTFM for your TV's display settings, like I mentioned before its your TV creating the Black Borders..
:-)

Maybe if you mention what TV you have then maybe somebody might look it up for you, lol ..

my tv is a lg 50pg6000