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<blockquote data-quote="kiwijunglist" data-source="post: 421864" data-attributes="member: 76888">I play a movie that is cinematic widescreen and pause it at the very start where everything is still black (grey), then i just turn down the brightness until i can't distinguish the grey from the black bars above and below the movie.&nbsp; I assume this happens because my video card is outputing 0-255 however the video is rendered as 16- 235.&nbsp; I have noticed that all my video files are the similar shade of grey prior to adjusting the contrast level.&nbsp; If you find that some videos have different shades of black ie 0 vs 16 then you will need more complicated adjustments.This is not the most elegant solution, but is a good extremely quick fix and should be good enough for most users.&nbsp; You can also down display calibration videos to adjust the white balance and other colour settings, but that is complicated and i really think the above fix is good enough (as long as all your videos are rendered as 16-235, if you have some rendered as 0-255 and some rendered as 16-235 then you have a problem.&nbsp; there is a reg hack for ati video cards that apparently corrects this).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kiwijunglist, post: 421864, member: 76888"] I play a movie that is cinematic widescreen and pause it at the very start where everything is still black (grey), then i just turn down the brightness until i can't distinguish the grey from the black bars above and below the movie. I assume this happens because my video card is outputing 0-255 however the video is rendered as 16- 235. I have noticed that all my video files are the similar shade of grey prior to adjusting the contrast level. If you find that some videos have different shades of black ie 0 vs 16 then you will need more complicated adjustments. This is not the most elegant solution, but is a good extremely quick fix and should be good enough for most users. You can also down display calibration videos to adjust the white balance and other colour settings, but that is complicated and i really think the above fix is good enough (as long as all your videos are rendered as 16-235, if you have some rendered as 0-255 and some rendered as 16-235 then you have a problem. there is a reg hack for ati video cards that apparently corrects this). [/QUOTE]

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