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Posted on Nov 09, 2009

Sony Bravia KDL-52XBR6 screen adjustment

Recently I accidentally made a change in the "Screen Settings" & now the picture seems too large & sometimes I get black bars on the side or bottom of some broadcasts, especially commercials.
Before I made the mistake, all broadcasts were full screen & the clarity was excellent with no flip-flop between full creen & black bars around some broadcasts.

I have tried all of the settings in the manual with no success. Any ideas how I get back to previous setting?

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That sounds very normal to me. When your watching a HD channel, and a commercial comes on and the screen gets smaller with as you say the black bars, just means that the commercial is not broadcasting in HD. You can change it by pushing the button on your TV remote that says picture, but you are streaching the screen and are going to loose the quality of the picture. You may also want to spend a few hours, going into you TV settings and just start playing with the settings. Just remember where they were before you change something. You can also purchase a guide to LCD settings to point you in the right direction. If you have your TV set to vivid or one of the preset picure modes, it is costing you more power and you are not getting the best picture that the TV can produce. Play around with the custom setting or buy one of those calibration CD's off the internet.

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