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One word - GooGone
 

Hey Guys...

For those of you with sticky stuff on ANYTHING - plastic, metal, glass, etc....

Go to Kmart and get a bottle of "GooGone." Works wonders!!

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Anyone try this on their reg tv's ( not RPTV)? what to use black foam cardboard? Velcro or tape?

Huh? No, we're two different people.

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T-ball, I have the same TV... I think it's a projection TV tweak.

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Well, it's like 'how much more black could it be?'...and the answer is 'none...none more black'.
-Nigel

Is this post a joke??? Put cardboard on the screen??? That must look real nice! If this is serious I must be on the wrong board!!!

Stumbled upon this. Idea seems okay, not for me though. But what do you do with different aspect ratios? You have one for the standard widescreen of 16:9 or so and another one for the 2:35:1? And then you have your standard 4:3 ones without mattes?

I like the effect of covering up the letterbox bars on your screen but it covers up the subtitles on some movies.

I tried it on my 27 inch tv. It does make a difference. Picture now has a nice letterbox frame around the picture. When there is a bright scene, you usually get the edge of the letterboxed picture to widen a few scan lines, dark scenes a little wider picture. The mattes give it a constant dark even black letterbox top and below. I can now boost up the contrast. No blooming

I discovered this for myself with my Star Wars bootlegs that had the burned in subtitles. Besides blocking out the subtitles, I found the movie had a much better 'look' to it. I continued to use it on all my movies. This was with my old 27" tube TV. Now that I have a 36" Wega with enhanced mode, I no longer do this, but I highly recommend it.

I'm going to give this a try using some black static vinyl. I think I'll cut some strips for 2 different aspect ratios. 2.35:1 and 1.66:1 (which I think is actually more common than) 16:9.

While it in no way enhances the picture quality, my "tests" made it look like I was watching a 16:9 tv instead of a letterboxed 4:3 tv. My 36" tv doesn't hold black well so when scenes change between dark and light the bars change in intensity.

I don't think doing this stops blooming. It'll HIDE any blooming at the letterbox edges, but blooming will still occur within the picture. I doubt anyone suggests cranking up the contrast at any time.

Here are some suggestions/examples for mattes that were done.
mattes
somemore

Tried the static vinyl last night. The stuff I got was a pain to work with. The back side had some sort of adhesive that, while it didn't leave a residue, made it annoying trying to line up. I wanted to use something like this because I have a direct view, and I didn't think a panel would work with the curved screen. I finally got it watchable but I noticed it wasn't even across. I say stick with the panels even with a direct view.