Okay, I am almost finally at the point of my project where I take down the sheet and put up a real screen. LOL You've all been there, so no snickering.
Now, I have a choice to make. I can stick with the gigantinormous 4:3 screen, which will work out to be about 7.5'x5.5' based on my projector placement and pro lens set, or I can opt for the 16:9 approach.
Materials are MUCH easier to obtain and work with for the 16:9. It works out that with a smidge more movement of the projector closer to the wall, I can fit my image into a 4' high widescreen, which is much easier to find an alternative for.
That said, what are the best ways to manipulate my standard TV output to fit on a widescreen without stretching? The math would have it have black bars on the sides, which is fine, but what software? Is the best option to slap on Powerstrip and force the panel to never use the upper and lower parts of the screen? Is there some other approach?
How have you guys handled this using a 4:3 panel outputting to a 16:9 screen? Options?
Personally, I think when we get a good list, this will need to be a sticky, unless I have missed one somewhere.
Full Version: 1024 X 768 --> 16:9 Screen
QUOTE (weldonjb @ Nov 7 2006, 10:13 AM) 
Okay, I am almost finally at the point of my project where I take down the sheet and put up a real screen. LOL You've all been there, so no snickering.
Now, I have a choice to make. I can stick with the gigantinormous 4:3 screen, which will work out to be about 7.5'x5.5' based on my projector placement and pro lens set, or I can opt for the 16:9 approach.
Materials are MUCH easier to obtain and work with for the 16:9. It works out that with a smidge more movement of the projector closer to the wall, I can fit my image into a 4' high widescreen, which is much easier to find an alternative for.
That said, what are the best ways to manipulate my standard TV output to fit on a widescreen without stretching? The math would have it have black bars on the sides, which is fine, but what software? Is the best option to slap on Powerstrip and force the panel to never use the upper and lower parts of the screen? Is there some other approach?
How have you guys handled this using a 4:3 panel outputting to a 16:9 screen? Options?
Personally, I think when we get a good list, this will need to be a sticky, unless I have missed one somewhere.
Now, I have a choice to make. I can stick with the gigantinormous 4:3 screen, which will work out to be about 7.5'x5.5' based on my projector placement and pro lens set, or I can opt for the 16:9 approach.
Materials are MUCH easier to obtain and work with for the 16:9. It works out that with a smidge more movement of the projector closer to the wall, I can fit my image into a 4' high widescreen, which is much easier to find an alternative for.
That said, what are the best ways to manipulate my standard TV output to fit on a widescreen without stretching? The math would have it have black bars on the sides, which is fine, but what software? Is the best option to slap on Powerstrip and force the panel to never use the upper and lower parts of the screen? Is there some other approach?
How have you guys handled this using a 4:3 panel outputting to a 16:9 screen? Options?
Personally, I think when we get a good list, this will need to be a sticky, unless I have missed one somewhere.
well unless your using a tv tuner card and watching SD TV through the PC, then obviously power strip won't work. If you do this however, then I suppose lowering the resolution and putting black bars on the sides is a good option.
Personally I will be doing the following: 5:4 screen with retractable black velvet which will cover the black bars on top and bottom for watching 16:9 content. I do not want to sacrifice image size for screen size. I want big 16:9 and even bigger 4:3!!
I think GadgetSmith nailed the answer here.
Limit the viewable area of the monitor to 1024x576 for a 16:9 format. I will have to try this with GB-PVR and my DVD player software on my HTPC, and see if I like it.
Limit the viewable area of the monitor to 1024x576 for a 16:9 format. I will have to try this with GB-PVR and my DVD player software on my HTPC, and see if I like it.
QUOTE (weldonjb @ Nov 7 2006, 01:16 PM)
I think GadgetSmith nailed the answer here.
Limit the viewable area of the monitor to 1024x576 for a 16:9 format. I will have to try this with GB-PVR and my DVD player software on my HTPC, and see if I like it.
Limit the viewable area of the monitor to 1024x576 for a 16:9 format. I will have to try this with GB-PVR and my DVD player software on my HTPC, and see if I like it.
hrm thats a good idea.. but I'd still need the retractable fabric for the black boarder
Powerstrip, using 1024 x 576 Ali's pdp resolution. Will make it a 16:9 desktop. I used this the whole time i had the projector.
QUOTE (andysharifi @ Nov 17 2006, 01:39 AM)
Powerstrip, using 1024 x 576 Ali's pdp resolution. Will make it a 16:9 desktop. I used this the whole time i had the projector.
This is how I roll, and I think it's the way to go. Widescreen is the future, all the movies and TV shows I watch are in 16:9, and most games now have widescreen resolutions to choose from.
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