Make Widescreen HD into Fullscreen like my blu ray player does

[PSS2]

I have many hd files usually in 720p and on my lg blu ray player they automatically turn into fullscreen perfectly which is what I prefer, but it stays at widescreen on my playstation 3 because obviously it originally is widescreen. Im wondering if theres any way i can convert them to fullscreen like my blu ray player does with keeping the same picture.

[yoda313]

Do you mean the horizontal black bars? You can easily do that with the zoom function on your tv.

[PSS2]

yea the black bar, but if you zoom in some of the picture is cropped off.

[yoda313]

Yes the ps3 does not have any special auto zoom feature that I know of. Besides I dont' use any zoom on my videos. I prefer the original oar.

As far as I know you will have to either live with it or get another lg player.

Just out of curiosity what is the feature called that does this "magical" zoom?

[PSS2]

It's on settings and you can keep the normal image that its on or you can change it to stretch the black bars to the top while keeping the sides of the picture the same making it fullscreen. The zoom feature even on tv's takes the black bars out but some of the picture on the side is cropped off.

[yoda313]

@pss2 - thanks for the info.

I did a little googling and found this:

http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=609374

I'm not sure if this is your issue or not directly. But try fooling around with the "upscaler" in the video menu of the ps3. That might let you do something close to what you want to do.

I don't want to fool with it myself on my own system because I like it the way it is.

Hope this helps.

[guns1inger]

yea the black bar, but if you zoom in some of the picture is cropped off.

You cannot zoom widescreen material to fullscreen "perfectly". You either stretch it so everyone is tall and skinny, or you zoom it and crop off the ends. They are your only choices.

[PSS2]

i guess its stretched, but it looks perfect like that, all i want is to make it widescreen without losing any picture on the sides. And only the black bars r stretched to the top on my blu ray player not zoomed in, so im just wondering if theres any program that i can do that with.

[manono]

i guess its stretched, but it looks perfect like that...

No it doesn't. Everyone is tall and thin. The sun is an oval, a ball is an oval. It looks ridiculous.

You can easily ruin it yourself by cropping away the black bars and then resizing it to the way it was before. And then you reencode it yourself, adding degraded video to the already wrecked aspect ratio. XviD4PSP can probably do that, allowing you to edit the AviSynth script to add in the crop and resize lines. You'll have to know a bit of AviSynth to do it though. Simple all-in-one programs don't usually make it easy to do such things, if they allow it at all, under the theory that it's better not to let the ignorant ruin a perfectly good video.