Re: Monitor dimensions

HEMI-Powered wrote:
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David, please take a quick look at the reply I just made to John
Bean. In a nutshell, I'm very confused as to whether I can or
cannot choose a 4:3 aspect ratio. I understand that a LCD monitor
displays its highest quality when used at its native resolution,
but 1920 x anything is WAY too large, all of my pictures would
look like postage stamps.

Well, you would need software which takes your images and resamples them
when displaying them - the Windows Picture and FAX Viewer will do this.
So if you have a 4:3 image (1024 x 768 pixels, say), the software would
resample the image to 1600 x 1200 for display, and leave the black bands
on either side as the monitor's 1.6:1 aspect ratio is different to your
images 1.333:1. As you say, just like your HDTV looking at a 1024 x 768
PC.

I think that a money-back guarantee would be well worthwhile if you have
uncertainties about how exactly the display will work.

Cheers,
David


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