Ultrawide screen fix

nashathedog · 29 Oct 2016 at 14:01

Hello, I have a 3440 x 1440 monitor and wanted to know if there is a way to force movies I stream to full-screen.

Example Blinkbox (talk talk TV).

I have digital movies on this streaming service and when I play them I appear to be getting an ultrawide view but it's letterboxed as in this screen shot
How can I get it to fill the screen better?

lurkio · 29 Oct 2016 at 14:09

if the movie is 21:9 then you could just use screeen zoom to fill it
if it is not 21:9 not much you can do

nashathedog · 29 Oct 2016 at 14:34

Screen zoom?

n111ck · 29 Oct 2016 at 15:08

nashathedog said:
Screen zoom?

Your monitor may have a cinema mode that does this if not look for a browser extension.

nashathedog · 29 Oct 2016 at 15:33

Okay thanks.

Casterina · 29 Oct 2016 at 15:35

Install this addon on Chrome and when the movie is playing, press F11 on your keyboard to put Chrome to full screen and then press Ctrl + Space at the same time and it should fill the screen.

Bantu · 29 Oct 2016 at 15:37

thanks for that! it's a handy add-on. loving ultrawide... but still living in hope that one day more software and video will support it without hacky things

Doogles · 29 Oct 2016 at 21:50

Bantu said:
thanks for that! it's a handy add-on. loving ultrawide... but still living in hope that one day more software and video will support it without hacky things

I'm sure it will because I am fairly certain that 21:9 will become mainstream, the amount of places that have duel monitor setups that would benefit from them is rather big but the price is also to high, it needs the prices to drop first before that happens though. If I can get a 144hz 21:9 with a decent resolution I'll eventually get one myself.