The above two pictures are direct HDMI stream captures with the excellent Elgato Game Capture HD. In the latter, the additional “TV Out Tweak mode” doesn't hide the windowbox. Note that the same border would be visible when playing the video in a lot of other players, for example, GoodPlayer. The standardized Monsters test video played back by Buzz Player on an iPad 3 over HDMI. Click them to access the full-sized originals.

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I am using video projector and find this very frustrating.” But some apps dont, for exampe Buzz player does not manage to fill the whole resolution 1920x1280, it leaves empty space on all 4 sides. Also Air Video app seems to work all the time. “For example native apps, like YouTube, never have the problem, they always fill the 1920x1280 correctly. An example of these is BUZZ Player, of which user “ Timpax ” posted the following HERE, April 25, 2012. For example, at least half of AppStore video players display the same border around their output as, say, the 16:9 iPhone 5 in mirrored landscape mode. This applies to both several stock apps (for example, Photos) and, at the time of this writing, the majority of third-party apps. Also note that, should you connect the HDMI output to a DVI input, you may not encounter borders either. They, in most cases, behave differently than the just-listed three “consumer” video signal transfer modes. (Note: VGA adapters, which are also available for iDevices, have deliberately been left off the list above. So, you've purchased an HDMI adapter or a component/composite cable, hooked it up to your external TV or projector only to find your pictures have thick borders around them almost all the time, except when playing back videos in the stock Videos – or, prior to iOS6, stock YouTube - client.

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