Grey bars at top and bottom watching HD from a satellite? That sounds like it's the satellite transmission doing that. If your TV is the "square" type (4:3 ratio, which is unusual for an HDTV), and you have your satellite receiver setup for a 4:3 television, and you have selected "letterbox" for display of widescreen pictures on your TV, then the satellite box will add the bars at top and bottom. Go into the satellite receiver menu; there you should find a way to change the bars from gray to black.
If you have a widescreen TV, and are receiving HD program material, and that program material is movies, then if there are bars at top and bottom it is because the movie's original ratio was wider than 16:9. The broadcaster has chosen to show the full width of the picture by shrinking it, producing bars at top and bottom. If this is the case, the color of those bars is in the source program, and you can't do anything about it. However, I have never seen anything but black bars in that case, but it is possible for them to use gray.
A far more common situation is when you are receiving non-HD material on a widescreen HD set. Then the TV will put vertical bars left and right to fill in the extra width. In that case, the color of those bars is set in the TV set's setup menu.
2006-09-02 18:15:45
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answered by gp4rts 7
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You do not want to change them: they are grey because grey burns in much more slowly than black or white. What you should do i just change the aspect ration from 4:3 to widescreen (or vice-versa). Even though it will be stretched it still looks much better than those awful bars.
If you really, really want to change them, read the manual to see if you actually an because that is a relatively new/premium feature (but it can be done).
2006-09-02 23:48:27
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answered by im.in.college.so.i.know.stuff 4
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curiously such as you have your television on a distinctive factor ratio than the sphere is outputting. On you television distant (not the Comcast one) seek for for a button that announces some ingredient like p. length/image length/factor ratio/ration some ingredient like that and it fairly is going to be on sixteen:9 or motor vehicle. as quickly as you have a plasma, liquid crystal demonstrate, or widescreen it fairly is going to be on sixteen:9 yet while that still would not artwork attempt the various ratios those that say zoom will in lots of circumstances cut back off factor of the photograph i does not advise making use of one among those. desire this helps :)
2016-12-14 17:02:52
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answered by Anonymous
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Have you read your manual? And perhaps if you told us the model number we could help.
2006-09-02 17:19:33
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answered by JP 4
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2006-09-02 22:44:09
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answered by Fayn F 1
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