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HD On A 16:10 TV
vaughny,
05-04-2008
I have a 16:10 HD TV/monitor. Will a TV broadcast HD picture be displayed as 16:10 with the sides cut off or will it be 16:9 with black bars top and bottom?
Nigel Goodwin
05-04-2008
Originally Posted by vaughny,:
“I have a 16:10 HD TV/monitor. Will a TV broadcast HD picture be displayed as 16:10 with the sides cut off or will it be 16:9 with black bars top and bottom? ”

Depends on what the TV does with it, it might even stretch/squeeze it to make it fit? - which really sounds more likely.

What does it do with SD 16:9 programmes?.
vaughny,
05-04-2008
With SD 16:9 it'll cut the sides off. To get 16:9 I have to put the Sky box setting to 4:3L but the sides are stretched.
Gilbertoo
07-04-2008
Is it worth getting HD on a 16:10 screen? Usually they are quite small screens to you won't see much difference between SD & HD anyway?
bobcar
07-04-2008
Originally Posted by Gilbertoo:
“Is it worth getting HD on a 16:10 screen? Usually they are quite small screens to you won't see much difference between SD & HD anyway?”

It depends, you might be using it as a monitor and sitting quite close to it in which case HD is much more important than with a huge screen which you sit some distance from.
vaughny,
08-04-2008
Originally Posted by Gilbertoo:
“Is it worth getting HD on a 16:10 screen? Usually they are quite small screens to you won't see much difference between SD & HD anyway?”

It's 22" and SD on it looks terrible.
Gilbertoo
08-04-2008
Originally Posted by vaughny,:
“It's 22" and SD on it looks terrible.”

It's definitely worth a go it's just that my experience of screens that size hasn't been good with either SD or HD...
Basket Case
08-04-2008
I take it this will be connected via HDMI/DVI (ie the HD material isn't on a PC? - sorry, that's probably a stupid question).

If the display does stretch it vertically to make it fill the entire screen, you should be able to change the 'stretch image' settings on the monitor's menu. As in, you should be able to 'squash' the image back down to 16:9 using the menus on the front buttons of the monitor. My monitor includes a '16:9 source' option which you can select to prevent it stretching the image (or cutting off the sides) when viewing HD material over HDMI/DVI.
vaughny,
08-04-2008
Originally Posted by basketcase3000:
“I take it this will be connected via HDMI/DVI (ie the HD material isn't on a PC? - sorry, that's probably a stupid question).

If the display does stretch it vertically to make it fill the entire screen, you should be able to change the 'stretch image' settings on the monitor's menu. As in, you should be able to 'squash' the image back down to 16:9 using the menus on the front buttons of the monitor. My monitor includes a '16:9 source' option which you can select to prevent it stretching the image (or cutting off the sides) when viewing HD material over HDMI/DVI.”

Yes, it'll be via HDMI. Thanks, that's what wanted to know.
Praxidike
08-04-2008
Originally Posted by Gilbertoo:
“Is it worth getting HD on a 16:10 screen? Usually they are quite small screens to you won't see much difference between SD & HD anyway?”

Define small? HD DVD looks excellent on my 22", a vast improvement over SD - the resolution is 1680x1050, so not quite 1080p, but well over 720p, so the difference is certainly noticeable. On a 24" monitor the standard resolution is 1920x1200 at 16:10, so has the full 1080 resolution available there.

Anyway as for black bars, it depends on the TV. Some have an option to put the bars in, preserving the aspect ratio, while others don't have the option and "helpfully" crop the image, losing bits off the side, to fill the screen.

I have two monitors, one has this option (Samsung 225MW), one doesn't (940MW).

I much prefer the one that does, I hate losing bits of the screen - cropping into the screen is VHS age.
vaughny,
10-04-2008
Originally Posted by Praxidike:
“
I have two monitors, one has this option (Samsung 225MW)”

Just seen a video of a 225MW on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GxkfjCtfSU

It has PIP and everything. I should have bought that instead of this one.
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