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Looks nice, the only bit I don't like is that if it is full screen you have a vast expanse of white on either side of content, which I find a bit distracting for some reason. I always think dark bars down sides help to focus your eyes into the content area.

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Hmm, I'm not sure about that one, does anyone know of any studies or have any opinions related to darkening the sides?

I was talking purely from personal preference, but would be interested to know if there were any studies done on this.

Widescreen movies on a 4:3 aspect TV always use black edges, but maybe that's just tradition or to do with contrast or something like that.

EDIT: Just noticed that HN has a grey content area with white around the edges, which I like, so maybe my preference is more to do with having different colour sides than dark sides - i.e. some kind of boundary to the content area.

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