> As others have mentioned, LCDs are always used best at their native > resolution. What exactly do you need the 4:3 aspect ratio for? > > For example, if you have video content in lower resolutions and 4:3 > aspect ratio you'd better let the player do software upscaling, it will > look better anyway. For other problems there might be other solutions.
You guess is right. It is mainly for films that are all in lower res than 640x480. Tour advise to use software upscaling is sound but unfortunately not applicable in my current situation. Even whet it is played in normal resolution mplayer is complaining that my system is too slow to play the film. My CPU is 366 MHz PII (Celeron) and I have MGA100 graphical chip with 6 Mb VideoRAM. As it looks like I am stuck with this box in foreseeable future too. And when I change to lower resolution all actors/actress looks like they urgently need some 'Loose Fat Fast' medicine urgently (poor Nicole Kidman) Sometimes I do switch to lower resolution and use that as magnifier to better see some details of picture or webpage or something. Another use case when I like to have 4:3 aspect ratio is when I switch to MS Windows. For one thing XP as installed on my box does not allow me to use wide screen at all. It only offer 000x600 and 1024x768 resolution (I guess this could be fixed if I reinstall XP). And I do not care really for this as the only reason I am keeping XP around is to play some games. And all the games when played in fullscreen are 4:3. At least those I do play. Since my box is so limited I do not have almost any game released after year 1998 (or 2000). So after reading replays my conclusion is that none of LCD wide monitors do not offer possibility to change aspect ratio by software. Same that designers of monitor and protocol that its use to communicate with computer did not thing about this feature. I hope that I am wrong. Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100517124625.gg2...@alfa
