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Gray letterbox bars with anamorphic DVD

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I popped in my punisher edit last night, and it is anamorphic 2.35:1. Because my TV is 4:3, My DVD player adds the remaining letterbox to resize it properly, but the letterbox it adds is coming out gray. The picture is perfect, and the letterbox attached is pitch black, but the outer most bars are coming out gray. Anybody ever have this problem? If so, how do you fix it?
 
depending on the editor you are using, you can do a few things about this.
Since I am using ULEAD MEDIA STUDIO PRO, this is what I do with a similar problem (which happens quite often, when deleted scenes with a lower image quality are included into a movie):
Possibility 1: Crop the movie, so the black bars are not used from the movie, but will be created by the editor.
Possibility 2: Create black bars by using black images up and below to cover the greay bars (this is to be done, when only a few parts are grey).
 
The problem is not the bars attached to the picture, its the bars my DVD player creates to show it at the proper aspect ratio. The inner bars are pitch black - the quality of the edit is perfect. Perhpas it's a setting in my DVD program.
 
Does your DVD player have a menu for choosing what type of TV you have? It's possible that the player could make the bars gray to avoid burn-in if the setting is on plasma or RPTV, etc.
 
I don't think so. I've never seen this happen before. I've burned several DVDs and played them on the same DVD player. Perhaps it's my editor. I'm gonna look into it. Bizarre! Thanks for the input anyway.
 
Occasionally, a 4:3 TV will brighten the image a bit compared to what it looks like on a PC, or at least I've noticed this watching several fanedits.
 
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