Laptop does not display movie on full screen

Hi Guys,

I have recently bought a Dell Inspiron 15.4"WXGA laptop.

I am always getting black bands on the left and right hand sides of the screen when I play some movie on it.I am not able to see it on full screen.
I have already selected Full Screen option in the software.

Could you please suggest as to what could be the reason for it..

Thanks in anticipation.

Manish

Laptop's suck 8)

Ok you have a WXGA display where the W stands for "Wide" if you play a "full screen" movie on a wide screen you will always have black bars on the sides. The exact reverse of this happens when you try to watch a wide screen movie on a standard non-wide display. Since the movie is wider than the display you get black bars on the top and bottom. Only movies that exactly match your screen type/aspect should play without black bars. This is completely normal.

There are 2 ways to lose the black bars. One way is to strech the movie so it takes up the entire screen in both directions. You should try this one time so you can see why that is a bad idea. In your case with stretch enabled the Stargate is gonna be eggshaped. If you like watching EggGate by all means leave your settings on "stretch to fit screen".

The other way is to zoom as has already been suggested. Zooming is going to chop off people's heads and feet so zooming is also a poor option. The best option is to leave it alone and deal with the black bars (IMHO).