LCDs and non-native pixel formats

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As far as I've been able to tell, all the commonly available
LCD desktop monitors are quite insistent on scaling (with
well known suboptimal results) when presented with a pixel
format other than native. Does anyone offer the option of
cropping the displayed image to whatever (lower than native)
format is input? For example, I'd like to find a 1680x1050
monitor that would display 1280x1024 with 200 black pixels on
each side and 13 at top and bottom.

-Steve
 
As far as I've been able to tell, all the commonly available
LCD desktop monitors are quite insistent on scaling (with
well known suboptimal results) when presented with a pixel
format other than native. Does anyone offer the option of
cropping the displayed image to whatever (lower than native)
format is input? For example, I'd like to find a 1680x1050
monitor that would display 1280x1024 with 200 black pixels on
each side and 13 at top and bottom.
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I don't think any LCD will do that by itself, but the graphics driver
can.
 
As far as I've been able to tell, all the commonly available
LCD desktop monitors are quite insistent on scaling (with
well known suboptimal results) when presented with a pixel
format other than native. Does anyone offer the option of
cropping the displayed image to whatever (lower than native)
format is input?
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My Dell 2001FP has a scaling setting with three options - 1:1, Fill
and Scaling - of which the first one does exactly what you're looking
for. I *think* all of the Dell Ultrasharp LCDs have this option, not
sure about their other models though, or about any models from any
other manufacturer.
 
Chris Coulson said:
My Dell 2001FP has a scaling setting with three options - 1:1, Fill
and Scaling - of which the first one does exactly what you're looking
for. I *think* all of the Dell Ultrasharp LCDs have this option, not
sure about their other models though, or about any models from any
other manufacturer.
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Cool! Thanks for the info.

-Steve
 
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