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2405FPW and scaling 16:9, need tech help please.
I recently bought one of these monitors however something is bothering me about it, when I select 16:9 mode on my DVD player the 2405FPW displays a vertical distortion, that is, the image appears skinny and oblong. It appears this way regardless if I select 1:1, aspect or stretch. This is really bothering me because if I play in 16:9 mode and select stretch than 16:9 optimized movies display over the entire screen (in 16:9 aspect without any black bars) but again they are skewed.
If I select 4:3 mode on the DVD player and select aspect I do not notice any distortion but there are black bars on the top and sides, really the monitor should scale 16:9 mode on the dvd player and only have small black bars on the top and bottom to counter the 16:10 ratio vs the 16:9.
To me it doesn't make sense that the monitor can properly scale 4:3 movies and maintain the proper geometry yet it can't maintain the aspect ratio of 16:9 enhanced movies without vertical distortion, which would otherwise fill up the entire screen to take advantage of the wide aspect ratio the screen is meant to offer.
I've looked over the options to try and find a way for it to properly display 16:9 movies but I can't find any that would fix this. Am I missing something here? Is there a way to get the monitor to properly display movies via component using 16:9 mode?
If I select 4:3 mode on the DVD player and select aspect I do not notice any distortion but there are black bars on the top and sides, really the monitor should scale 16:9 mode on the dvd player and only have small black bars on the top and bottom to counter the 16:10 ratio vs the 16:9.
To me it doesn't make sense that the monitor can properly scale 4:3 movies and maintain the proper geometry yet it can't maintain the aspect ratio of 16:9 enhanced movies without vertical distortion, which would otherwise fill up the entire screen to take advantage of the wide aspect ratio the screen is meant to offer.
I've looked over the options to try and find a way for it to properly display 16:9 movies but I can't find any that would fix this. Am I missing something here? Is there a way to get the monitor to properly display movies via component using 16:9 mode?
Message Edited by ermac on 04-29-2005 07:13 PM
- Most wide screen movies are not 16:9, and cannot fill a 16:9 screen (with very few exceptions). So, you will always see a black bar on top or bottom on this monitor (but not left or right). (Same thing with my sony plasma tv). I use my HTPC to play dvd and it behaves like a regular dvd player on my sony plasma. So, I think it is normal.
- That's not what I'm talking about though, through component the 2405 can't scale 16:9 aspect correctly so instead of seeing the small bars at the top and bottom the monitor displays vertical stretching in any mode.
Pop in a 16:9 movie that would normally fill a 16:9 screen, it fills the entire screen of the 2405 on strech mode and everything appears skinny, selecting aspect should correct the issue but instead it centers the movie in a small box in the middle with black bars on the top, bottom, left and right with the movie appearing in a box in the center of the screen while everything is again, skinny. The only way to correct the issue and have proper geometry through component is to, either play movies in 4:3 with aspect selected (black bars on top, bottom, left, right, small picture ect) or play DVDs through PC software so it can correctly scale the aspect ratio and take advantage of the wide screen, while having small black bars on the top and bottom as you said.
Natively the monitor does NOT support 16:9 through component input but instead confuses it with 4:3 input. This is a let down for me but not a deal breaker as I can watch DVD's through my PC, and in the future have a seperate shuttle PC for all media needs. One has to wonder about upcoming systems like Xbox 360 and PS3 though which are meant to support 720p as a baseline, all I can say is that you should hope they have 16:10 aspect scaling by default otherwise all your games will look skinny.
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Posted May 4th, 2005 04:00