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LCD Wide Screen Monitor

Nov 27, 2006 6:03AM PST

I am considering buying a LCD Wide Screen Monitor but I don't want a circle to look oblong. Will the computer compensate for the wider screen and keep the same aspect ratio as I had with the standard monitor?

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Not really.
Nov 27, 2006 6:25AM PST

The software you use will have to do that. For example, I don't have an issue with browsers or IRFANVIEW.

Bob

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It depends. . .
Nov 27, 2006 9:31PM PST

on your video card. My main PC's video card has a lot of resolution options and I was able to find one that worked. My other PC's video card did not have the proper resolution and the screen was stretched. A wide screen monitor will need something like 1440 X 900 resolution (wide screen). If your video card does not have this available, you'll get a stretched picture.

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proper settings
Dec 15, 2006 5:30AM PST

Thank you, coryphaeus! I've been suffering with elongated images since I "inherited" an HPw19 from my son. (It came with his new computer. He couldn't stand the stretched image, so kept his old standard aspect ratio 19" monitor when he sold me his old computer.)
I switched to 1440x900, as you suggested, and now I have incredibly sharp, standard ration windows inside my 16:9 display. Beautiful.

Should I tell my son? Wink

Thanks again, Ron

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1440x990 resolution
Jan 19, 2010 5:00AM PST

Thanks ! You solved my problem with a 22.5" wide screen monitor.