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Originally Posted by Peregrine
Are we missing the obvious? It's a widescreen monitor. It will strech things to fit.
It's a feature, not a bug.
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It won't stretch anything using a resolution that is the right aspect. A ball should look like a ball and not an egg. A typical CRT monitor has a
physical aspect of 4:3. If you took your tape measure the horizontal length might 12 inches and the vertical would be 9. A proper resolution would also be 4:3, like 800*600, 1600*1200, etc.
Since a widescreen is 16:9 when you use a 4:3 resolution it will stretch the image horizontlly.
Here is the opposite effect where widescreen is forced into something closer to a 4:3 box:
Notice the "lite" placards are egg shaped. This is screen capture from 16:9 anamorphic video. DVD has one max resolution and uses 720X480 for both 16:9 and 4:3.
What happens is the DVD player will read the 16:9 flag and will add black bars for a 4:3 display to the top and bottom or stretch it out full screen for display on 16:9 TV.
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