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LCDs and non-native pixel formats

 
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 11:57 am    Post subject: LCDs and non-native pixel formats Reply with quote
As far as I've been able to tell, all the commonly available
LCD desktop monitors are quite insistent on scaling (with
well known suboptimal results) when presented with a pixel
format other than native. Does anyone offer the option of
cropping the displayed image to whatever (lower than native)
format is input? For example, I'd like to find a 1680x1050
monitor that would display 1280x1024 with 200 black pixels on
each side and 13 at top and bottom.

-Steve
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Mike Ruskai
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:24 pm    Post subject: Re: LCDs and non-native pixel formats Reply with quote
On or about Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:57:23 -0500 did swp0331@comcast.net
dribble thusly:

Quote:
As far as I've been able to tell, all the commonly available
LCD desktop monitors are quite insistent on scaling (with
well known suboptimal results) when presented with a pixel
format other than native. Does anyone offer the option of
cropping the displayed image to whatever (lower than native)
format is input? For example, I'd like to find a 1680x1050
monitor that would display 1280x1024 with 200 black pixels on
each side and 13 at top and bottom.

I don't think any LCD will do that by itself, but the graphics driver
can.
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- Mike

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Chris Coulson
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:06 am    Post subject: Re: LCDs and non-native pixel formats Reply with quote
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:57:23 -0500, swp0331@comcast.net wrote:

Quote:
As far as I've been able to tell, all the commonly available
LCD desktop monitors are quite insistent on scaling (with
well known suboptimal results) when presented with a pixel
format other than native. Does anyone offer the option of
cropping the displayed image to whatever (lower than native)
format is input?

My Dell 2001FP has a scaling setting with three options - 1:1, Fill
and Scaling - of which the first one does exactly what you're looking
for. I *think* all of the Dell Ultrasharp LCDs have this option, not
sure about their other models though, or about any models from any
other manufacturer.
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Guest
PostPosted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 6:38 am    Post subject: Re: LCDs and non-native pixel formats Reply with quote
Chris Coulson <usenet@chizzum.com> wrote:

Quote:
My Dell 2001FP has a scaling setting with three options - 1:1, Fill
and Scaling - of which the first one does exactly what you're looking
for. I *think* all of the Dell Ultrasharp LCDs have this option, not
sure about their other models though, or about any models from any
other manufacturer.

Cool! Thanks for the info.

-Steve
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