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JR

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Since: Jul 23, 2005
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 3:55 pm
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I have had a 16:10 monitor on my computer due to a situation where I
got a very high end monitor for free many years ago. CRT based. I
have always had the monitor adjusted so there are black bars on the
left and right sides of the screen as fully expanded, the content
displayed was out of square. If I put a circle on the screen it would
look stretched and oval due to the wide aspect resolution. I now see
widescreen monitors all over and wondering why so many people want
them? I got a widescreen laptop monitor at work and hate it as it has
the same stretched look problem. I can understand having widescreen on
a TV, but do that many people watch their movies on their computer
monitor?

JR

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Yousuf Khan

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 12:58 am
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JR wrote:
> I have had a 16:10 monitor on my computer due to a situation where I
> got a very high end monitor for free many years ago. CRT based. I
> have always had the monitor adjusted so there are black bars on the
> left and right sides of the screen as fully expanded, the content
> displayed was out of square. If I put a circle on the screen it would
> look stretched and oval due to the wide aspect resolution. I now see
> widescreen monitors all over and wondering why so many people want
> them? I got a widescreen laptop monitor at work and hate it as it has
> the same stretched look problem. I can understand having widescreen on
> a TV, but do that many people watch their movies on their computer
> monitor?

You of course have to use the proper 16:10 resolution modes, otherwise
things will look stretched.

Yousuf Khan

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the dog from that film yo

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:10 am
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"JR" <jriker1.DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I have had a 16:10 monitor on my computer due to a situation where I
> got a very high end monitor for free many years ago. CRT based. I
> have always had the monitor adjusted so there are black bars on the
> left and right sides of the screen as fully expanded, the content
> displayed was out of square. If I put a circle on the screen it would
> look stretched and oval due to the wide aspect resolution. I now see
> widescreen monitors all over and wondering why so many people want
> them? I got a widescreen laptop monitor at work and hate it as it has
> the same stretched look problem. I can understand having widescreen on
> a TV, but do that many people watch their movies on their computer
> monitor?




sounds like you've never bothered to set your pc to the correct resolution -
that way everything will be the correct shape.


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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:56 pm
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"JR" <jriker1 RemoveThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1162076119.885517.217380@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>I have had a 16:10 monitor on my computer due to a situation where I
> got a very high end monitor for free many years ago. CRT based. I
> have always had the monitor adjusted so there are black bars on the
> left and right sides of the screen as fully expanded, the content
> displayed was out of square. If I put a circle on the screen it would
> look stretched and oval due to the wide aspect resolution. I now see
> widescreen monitors all over and wondering why so many people want
> them? I got a widescreen laptop monitor at work and hate it as it has
> the same stretched look problem. I can understand having widescreen on
> a TV, but do that many people watch their movies on their computer
> monitor?
>
> JR
>

Have you set it up for 1280 x 800 resolution? Things shouldn't look
stretched then.

In answer to your question. I do. I'm on the road quite a bit and always
take a few movies with me. Watching TV in most hotels (for me) is like 7
channels of CNN, the Weather Channel, etc... The only thing that saves me
is my widescreen laptop and college football. I'm hoping for a Slingbox for
Christmas.

Art
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:20 pm
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"Art" <dont DeleteThis @email.me> wrote in message
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> "JR" <jriker1 DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1162076119.885517.217380@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>I have had a 16:10 monitor on my computer due to a situation where I
>> got a very high end monitor for free many years ago. CRT based. I
>> have always had the monitor adjusted so there are black bars on the
>> left and right sides of the screen as fully expanded, the content
>> displayed was out of square. If I put a circle on the screen it would
>> look stretched and oval due to the wide aspect resolution. I now see
>> widescreen monitors all over and wondering why so many people want
>> them? I got a widescreen laptop monitor at work and hate it as it has
>> the same stretched look problem. I can understand having widescreen on
>> a TV, but do that many people watch their movies on their computer
>> monitor?
>>
>> JR
>>
>
> Have you set it up for 1280 x 800 resolution? Things shouldn't look
> stretched then.
>
> In answer to your question. I do. I'm on the road quite a bit and always
> take a few movies with me. Watching TV in most hotels (for me) is like 7
> channels of CNN, the Weather Channel, etc... The only thing that saves me
> is my widescreen laptop and college football. I'm hoping for a Slingbox
> for Christmas.
>
> Art

I just bought a Gateway FPD2185W TFT LCD monitor at a good price. I do a
lot of work with photography, video production and website design. I'm
delighted to be able to stack up my control panels for programs such as
Photoshop to the right side of my screen where they don't interfere with the
photos I'm editing. The same is true of the control modules for Dreamweaver
and other website design and graphics programs.

Linda R. Amar
Shelton, WA
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