The Asus ROG Strix XG32UCWG debuts the company's new TrueBlack Glossy screen coating for better blacks and a killer ...

Microsoft did briefly turn the BSOD to a black screen in test builds of Windows 11 in 2021, but the company then reverted back to the blue screen it had been using since Windows 8.

Nearly every Windows user has had a run-in with the infamous "Blue Screen of Death" at some point in their computing life. Now, after more than 40 years of being set against a very recognizable ...

All of them were blue by coincidence, according to a blog post by Mr. Chen. The change to a black screen comes in the wake of last year’s outage generated by the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike.

As part of the WRI, Microsoft is replacing the decades-old Blue Screen of Death with a simplified black interface to reduce downtime and speed up recovery during system failures.

In short, the black bars appear because the video's aspect ratio doesn't match your TV's. While companies like LG have released 21:9 TVs in the past, they have never really caught on.