Here I would like to start a list for people that refferences all the 17" monitors that correctly letterbox 720p material instead of stretching it to the full height of the screen. So far by quickly searching the forums I have come across to monitors.

Daewoo L1711MN
Hyundai L72S

I think these monitor are the same because they have the same specs.
Can anyone confirm that both of these do letterbox 720p material.

Anyone who finds monitors that letterbox 720p material please post them here. This should help a lot of people.

I am confused a little bit - why would a monitor stretch an image on its own?

Doesn't it only display what is being fed to it by a computer?

I think you'll find it's whatever's driving them that's doing the stretching.

Not so, the Viewsonic VP171b I used that was "HDTV compatible" stretched 720p and 1080i all day long, making it useless. This was an HDTV set top box, which worked fine on an LCD TV.

And I thought I read that the L72S didn't take 720p at all?

Yeah I read more and see that people are having trouble with the L72S doing 720p with a transcoder but have gotten it in powerstrip. That will probably be the same with the Daewoo unless someone else can confirm otherwise.

We really need to find a good 17in monitor that will do 720p with a simple transcoder like the vdigi or x2vga.

ti51384 says that the daewoo supports 720p natively, can anyone confirm this?

http://www.lumenlab.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8189&st=0

i'm in the same boat as you trying to find a 17" w/ 720p & nice response time.. i think the Samsung 712N supports 720p however it doesn't letterbox it.

I know for a fact the samsung 151mp can do 720p, letterboxed downscaled (its a XGA panel). It downscales great, much better then an n6/n5

That is cool. Are you sure that it downscales 720p instead of upscaling 480p and how are you sure?

The goal I am looking for is a 17in monitor that will letterbox a 720p source with no scaling at all.

I know because i was using a VGA mod'd xbox and using the monitors 1:1 optin. It would letterbox the 1280x720. The monitor would also except a 1280x1024 feed and downscale as well.

The daewoo L1711MN DOES NOT fully support 720p. It streches the image like all other LCDs