# Zoom option

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/zoom-option/457843>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Created:** [September 6, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/zoom-option/457843 "2019-09-06T21:18:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![beatle\_matt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@beatle\_matt](https://forums.plex.tv/u/beatle_matt)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/zoom-option/457843/1 "2019-09-06T21:18:34Z")

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For the most part, I enjoy watching movies in the manner that the director desired. So if there’s black bars on the top and bottom. So be it!

However, it would be nice to have a built in zoom function to eliminate the black bars from the top and bottom, or in some cases at the sides.

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 9:27pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/zoom-option/457843/2 "2019-09-06T21:27:54Z")

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duplicate feature request (and various other client specific requests)

> [@Remove Black Bars](https://forums.plex.tv/t/remove-black-bars/156948):
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> Hi, I used to have this amazing application on LG TV called Playz. It did one thing that Plex doesn’t do on any platform and that is an option to remove black bars. This truly is an amazing feature. How it worked was once you played a movie if it had black bars you could scroll right (next to play forward etc) and select a button that could remove black bars. It is such a cool option and I really think we should have this integrated across all Plex applications. I share my Plex with multiple p…

closing

Please respect [the rules for this subforum](https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/46128/rules-for-this-forum-inc-how-to-vote#top).  
In particular **Search** first if the request has already been posted before. The goal is to collect the votes for a particular feature in one thread - not to scatter them around.

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 9:28pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/zoom-option/457843/3 "2019-09-06T21:28:03Z")

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