Ok as far as you are probably all aware of the aspect ratio issue people are complaining about regarding TV-OUT when using fullscreen overlay on a 4:3 tv, if not then the problem is nvidia drivers now force widescreen videos(with black bars) to run fullscreen on the tv with no black bars causing stretched video eg thin looking people, this issue occured on the drivers after about the 84.XX something.. Well my issue is I am about to buy another graphics card and since the Nvidia drivers are up to 163.71 and they still haven't fixed the issue I was considoring going to ATI. Can anyone let me know if ATI drivers (Latest) have this same issue or if they work completly fine allowing me to watch widescreen videos on the TV fullscreen with black bars at the correct aspect ratio? BTW - I have heard about the FFDshow workaround but im not too keen on that. Any work arounds / suggestions / feedback welcome please, thanks.

Have you tried SMPlayer? http://fileforum.betanews.com/detai...

169.xxx is out, have you tried it?

hmm no I haven't tried any of those, i'll check out SMplayer..

Thanks for the SMplayer tip. Go to video>aspect ratio>4:3 letterbox. This set black bars above&under the video. Now no more vertical stretched video eg thin looking people anymore ... going back to driver 84.xx was no option for me cause i want to play Bioshock. GOMplayer has also a setting like that : video>zoom in by aspect ratio.