), it's not the black bars on the encoded video I'm on about here, I know how to and have made anamorphic 2.35:1 DVDs before so that's not the issue here, it's the black borders the player generates outside of the image when squashing a 16:9 anamorphic picture to 4:3 that I'm on about not being as black as the encoded black borders on 2.35:1 DVDs.BTW the black borders on the 2.35:1 DVDs I've encoded have always been RGB 000.
I'm going to do some testing later between 2.35:1 anamorphic DVDs I've made and commercial ones, using a 4:3 screen, a 16:9 screen in 4:3 mode, my main DVD player and my portable DVD player (it has video out).