How do I get the black bars on the sides to go away?

[Dogbert]

So the laptop doesn't have any black bars showing on it's screen, but the image on the TV is full screen and you still have black bars on the left and right, what can you do?

Answer: When the laptop is connected to the PTV1000, on the laptop change the screen resolution to 1280x720. (Note: This may not work for every tv, but I tested it on 3 different models of widescreen tvs and it corrected the issue on all 3.)