Q: Screen Mirroring with HDMI Question

Have you set the TV Out settings (Settings/General/Video) for the iPad to widescreen?


Dah•veed

Today TVs are design with a 16:9 screen. The iPad has 4:3 screen... When mirroring the iPad onto the TV there will be black bars on the right and left of the image.

You are correct. My bad.

The iPad has 4:3 screen... When mirroring the iPad onto the TV there will be black bars on the right and left of the image.

But there should not be black bars all the way around as the OP noted.

If there are black bars on the Tv screen that is a Tv setting.

I just checked this out to make sure...

I check some YouTube videos showing how the HDMI works on the ipad and there was black bars all the way around the image on the the screen. Seeing this I hooked up my HDMI cable to make sure this was correct. Sure enough, there are back bars all the way around the mirrored image. There is an exception to this rule, if you play a 720p video the video will play full scene 16:9, no bars.

Many of the Hollywood production movie have a different aspect ratios and there will be black bars on the top and bottom.

Hooking the VGA up to the iPad and Tv there is only a 4:3 aspect ratio on the Tv screen. The image does fill the Tv screen from top to bottom with black bars right and left.

So... Black bars top, bottom, right and left is correct.

But the image is top to bottom when mirrored as shown on this page -> IPad video mirroring

spiderguy84 wrote:
Exactly. so, if it is supposed to be black bars all the way around when just mirroring the home screen, isnt this picture false advertising?

False advertising... no.

As suggested, it may be a setting on your television.

The videos I saw on YouTube showed black bars all the way around the image on the TV screen. And my test showed the same... It may be this way because it is under scanning the image on the screen. If it over scanned it would cut off the image. When I tested the VGA cable, videos over scanned.