Okay, I'm still playing around with my verrrry basic OHP setup with a 15" ViewSonic VE150. I finally got a pretty nice image after figuring out that a) the bulb that came in the projector was the wrong model and b) whatever the thing that bends the light (between the light and the glass top) was in upside down.

Now my only remaining problem is that my LCD has about 3/4" of each side hanging over the edge of the projector area. Vertically the screen fits perfect, but on the horizontal not so much. I didn't think this would be a big problem because I *thought* all monitors allowed you to adjust the H-Size along with H/V-position, but I cannot seem to get this monitor to do that; it only has auto-adjust.

I worked around it last night by just playing my movie in a window stretched to fill the screen, but I eventually want to hook up my Xbox (soon as my VGA adapter arrives) and am afraid that I'm gonna lose a good chunk of my picture since the xbox is going to display on the full viewable screen. Is there any way I can either minimize the area affected or trick my monitor into allowing me to adjust the H-Size?

thanks,
-alex

I'm not an LCD monitor expert, but I'll toss out an answer to hold you over until an expert chimes in. I've never seen an LCD monitor with size adjustment. It's possible that there are some out there, but if so, I've never seen them. With CRT monitors, size adjustment is normal.

I think it has to do with the mechanics of how each type of display works. It's real easy to adjust the amplitude of the scan area for the electron beam in a CRT. In an LCD, it's a fixed array of pixels, so adjusting the display size would involve some complicated algorithms to calculate the resized image to display with every refresh. And I don't think anybody is going to put that kind of feature into a low budget LCD.

So, I'm afraid you're probably out of luck.