What's new
Apple iPad Forum 🍎

Welcome to the Apple iPad Forum, your one stop source for all things iPad. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

Apple tv not full screen

sentinelace

iPF Noob
Joined
Dec 27, 2011
Messages
67
Reaction score
2
I just got the gen 3 Apple TV. Is there something u am missing to get full 1080 and fill the screen?
 

AQ_OC

iPF Novice
Joined
Apr 28, 2011
Messages
6,415
Reaction score
435
Location
SC
Some movies are 1080p and don't fill the screen. If your tv is 16:9 and the movie is formated like 2.35:1 or similiar, it won't fill the screen. There will be bars at the top and bottom. But if you play at 1080p movie that is formated 16:9, it will fill the screen when using the iPad and ATV3 together.
 
OP
S

sentinelace

iPF Noob
Joined
Dec 27, 2011
Messages
67
Reaction score
2
Right but my ipad in general doesn't fit the screen
 

AQ_OC

iPF Novice
Joined
Apr 28, 2011
Messages
6,415
Reaction score
435
Location
SC
Right but my ipad in general doesn't fit the screen

When you play a movie from the iPad to the Apple TV, it will fill the screen according to the movie's framing. If you just display the iPad on the screen of the TV using Apple TV, it won't fill the screen...this is called mirroring..and you get exactly what is on your iPad's screen on the TV. As soon as you play a movie, then the iPad goes into a different mode and fills the screen as much as possible.
 

scifan57

Administrator
Staff member
Joined
Dec 3, 2011
Messages
34,976
Reaction score
23,098
Location
Regina,Canada
You may be thinking of letter boxed movies, with the black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. This is perfectly normal with widescreen movies displayed on a screen that doesn't have the same aspect ratio. The movie in these screenshots would be letterboxed, even on a widescreen TV.



image-3383068992.jpg if you fill the entire screen, you can lose up to 2/3 of the picture.

image-1158614516.jpg photo credit: Paramount
 

Hans Remmerswaal

iPF Noob
Joined
Jun 21, 2013
Messages
1
Reaction score
0
Location
Netherlands
I do understand that you can have black bars in case the iPad screen size doesn't match the one of your widescreen TV.
What I do not understand is why I'm getting black bars left / right / above / below the iPad screen on my widescreen TV.

With mirroring I would expect to see only black bars left / right the mirrored screen...
Just wonder if this problem is the Apple TV or my widescreen TV itself, although the Apple TV is detecting that the screen is 1920 x 1080 with a refresh rate of 60 Hz.
 

AQ_OC

iPF Novice
Joined
Apr 28, 2011
Messages
6,415
Reaction score
435
Location
SC
I do understand that you can have black bars in case the iPad screen size doesn't match the one of your widescreen TV.
What I do not understand is why I'm getting black bars left / right / above / below the iPad screen on my widescreen TV.

With mirroring I would expect to see only black bars left / right the mirrored screen...
Just wonder if this problem is the Apple TV or my widescreen TV itself, although the Apple TV is detecting that the screen is 1920 x 1080 with a refresh rate of 60 Hz.

If you are getting black bars on all four sides, check your TV. Look for a "Just scan" setting. It could be an apple TV problem if you didn't tell your apple TV what kind of screen you have, so check that too. When probably set up, when mirroring, the iPad will make a big rectangle on your TV screen that has the exact same shape as the iPad screen. If you play a movie, most of which are in wide screen format, it will properly fill the 16:9 screen of your TV (you could stll have bars on the top as that depends on the aspect ratio of the movie you are watching -- some do have bars, others don't, depending on how the movie was framed for release).
 

Most reactions

Latest posts

Top