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Forum: Hardware Discussions Topic: Can a CRT 4:3 monitor do widescreen in a letterbox? |
| xbeanx3000 |
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Posted: 16 Jul 2009, 20:13
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can you select a widescreen resolution and then use the monitor picture adjust options in the menu on the screen, and reduce the height of the screen until you get proper aspect ratio? :P
That worked, lol.
Thanks to everyone who replied. |
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Forum: Hardware Discussions Topic: Can a CRT 4:3 monitor do widescreen in a letterbox? |
| xbeanx3000 |
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Posted: 16 Jul 2009, 01:47
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| Hi Frag Maniac, I need a widescreen aspect radio in fullscreen only, not for windowed movies. So the desktop would be either 16:9 or 16:10 (letterboxed), and modern games would work inside this. And looking at the nVidia custom resolutions again, there is no aspect ratio option in there anyway. So m... |
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Forum: Hardware Discussions Topic: Can a CRT 4:3 monitor do widescreen in a letterbox? |
| xbeanx3000 |
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Posted: 15 Jul 2009, 16:00
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I think I tried Custom Resolutions some years ago, but found the feature in nVidia's driver not to work at all (not a single custom resolution).
I'll try some of the things you people mentioned though, thanks. |
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Forum: Hardware Discussions Topic: Can a CRT 4:3 monitor do widescreen in a letterbox? |
| xbeanx3000 |
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Posted: 15 Jul 2009, 01:59
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Hi there,
I have a Viewsonic E96f+SB monitor (CRT 4:3) and was wondering if the CRT technology could do letterboxing, or was it restricted to DVI monitors?
I have a gut feeling it's the latter, but I'm hoping it's still possible to letterbox. |
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