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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This will get rid of the black bars regardless of your screen size and will adjust the game’s user interface to also fill your screen. Star Wars Outlaws aspect ratio and performance You would ...

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 ...

Star Wars Outlaws is available on three platforms at launch, though some may be wondering whether Ubisoft plans to port the game to last-gen consoles. These black bars probably aren't going to ...