also i know i should not really do this but just to trouble shoot i asked my neighbor if we could (since here in fl where i am the houses are right next to each other) run a cable from his outside connection from comcast just to see what happend and the side bars are gone do not show up at all...

and a toshiba 65h84. i have recently been getting a black bar down the right side of the screen only on certain channels. swapped boxes still there. tried vcr and dvd on same set of inputs goes away perfect picture. called in a tech (same that did my isf) and he checked everything out and all...