It can be incredibly frustrating to try to discover your new TV set puts unsightly black bars around the entire picture. Here ...

Most Blu-ray and streaming services show these movies in their original aspect ratio, with either thick black "letterbox" bars at the top and bottom of 2.39:1 aspect movies (2.40:1 as it's put on ...

If you’re finding the Star Wars Outlaws black bars jarring, there’s a fix. As the default option in the cinematic 21:9 aspect ratio, often referred to as ultrawide, you’re given a much ...

For movies, black bars are a – wait for it – good thing! They decided to offer a much more immersive, wider presentation and went to 35 mm film stock with an aspect ratio of 1.85:1 or almost ...

leaving black bars on the side. This highlights the problem filmmakers face when choosing what aspect ratio to film in: They can have an ideal viewing experience in mind while shooting the movie ...

When you watch a movie with black bars at the top and bottom of the screen, it’s usually using that aspect ratio. “Zack Snyder’s Justice League,” however, comes in at 1.37:1, very close to ...

YouTube has finally started playing vertical videos in their native aspect ratio on desktops, which means no black bars on the sides. This is an update that first rolled out to mobile devices last ...

The Lighthouse – 1.19 (box-shaped, large black bars left and right) For that 1890s look The Lighthouse’s aspect ratio isn’t too far off square, at 1.19. (Normally, the “1:” bit of ...

has 22 minutes of IMAX Expanded Aspect Ratio footage, so those scenes will fill up more of your TV screen when you watch them on Disney Plus. In other words, the black bars will be smaller.

with no black bars. Presumably, app developers — like the services mentioned above — will have to update their apps to ensure that their content displays correctly under the new aspect ratio ...