<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><html>On Mar 21, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Steve Peters - Priority Electronics wrote:</html><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div> <div><span class="493160119-21032008"><font face="Arial" size="2">Hello, i'm using the pvr-500 in my mythbox, and I get a few hd channels via my cable box. Currently, i record those channels and get nice and useless black bars at the top and bottom of the mpeg files. Does anyone know how to remove that? I know it's only an SD recording, but sometimes, there are some good shows on hd only channels. </font></span></div> <div><span class="493160119-21032008"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span class="493160119-21032008"><font face="Arial" size="2">I want to remove the bars, then transcode my recordings, or have the bars removed in the transcoding.</font></span></div> <div><span class="493160119-21032008"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span class="493160119-21032008"><font face="Arial" size="2">I'm pretty sure that my cable box does not send the bars with the composite signal, because when i plug the composite cable into my tv directly, the black bars are now gray bars.</font></span></div> <div><span class="493160119-21032008"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span class="493160119-21032008"><font face="Arial" size="2">What do you guys do with those bars?</font></span></div> <div><span class="493160119-21032008"><font face="Arial" size="2">-Thanks</font></span></div> <div><span class="493160119-21032008"><font face="Arial" size="2">-Steve</font></span></div> <div><span class="493160119-21032008"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span class="493160119-21032008"><font face="Arial" size="2">PS. I know the hauppague hd pvr is coming, and i'm in line for that one, but until then, i need some sort of solution.</font></span></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Any reason you need them transcoded without the bars or do you just need to adjust your "Fill" and get rid of them when playing back your recordings?</div><div><br></div></body></html>