Aspect Ratios on Monitors...

PikKOn

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Little help here people, I have a Viewsonic 2030b and just found that the aspect ratio is a mere 4:3 and was wondering if anyone has had any experience adjusting said ratio? Does anybody know if its possible of making a monitors aspect ratio higher? Preferably I would want mine to be 16:9 as it would be the perfect ration for connecting my XBox 360. At the moment I found people experiencing a thick black border which is not nice :(

Considering how much this monitor is on retail for I am hoping I can adjust the aspect ratio or I am going to find myself to be a very unhappy bunny :(

Thanks people, appreciate the help.
 
You could zoom into the image, that will keep the OAR but you'll loose side picture. If yours is a 4:3 TFT you can do nothing to change the physical shape of the screen itself. You'll just have to lump having huge borders (playback 2:35 in OAR with no zooming on a 4:3 to see what I mean)
 
Bah that is something I didn't want to hear / read :( Are the 16:9 ratios only applicable to wide screen monitors or can they apply to normal squared ones?

Thanks for the quick reply :)
 
PikKOn said:
Bah that is something I didn't want to hear / read :( Are the 16:9 ratios only applicable to wide screen monitors or can they apply to normal squared ones?

Thanks for the quick reply :)
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You're not quite understanding widescreen ratio, there's nothing stopping you on a 4:3 set watching a widescreen film in the correct aspect ratio, it just means it'll be smaller, compared to physically identical sized 16:9 set. For example on a 42" 4:3 set a 2:35 film still looks tiny, the black borders are a good half height of the screen. On a 42" 16:9 set it'll appear a lot bigger because the TV itself is closer to OAR. This is of course if both sets are in non-stretch mode.

Look here for more info. Oh PC widescreen monitors are actually 16:10, widescreen TV's are 16:9

Read here for more info
http://www.widescreen.org.uk/
 
If you set the 360 to 1024x768 in the dashboard (highest 4:3 resolution last time I checked) then at least the proportions will be correct, and you'll find many games run in a letterbox anyhow with this setting.

Judging by what you're saying you sound a little confused...as squiffy is saying, a 4:3 screen will always be a 4:3 screen, any content with a different aspect ratio will either run stretched or in a letterbox depending on what does the scaling (be it the particular source or screen).
 
PikKOn said:
Little help here people, I have a Viewsonic 2030b and just found that the aspect ratio is a mere 4:3 and was wondering if anyone has had any experience adjusting said ratio? Does anybody know if its possible of making a monitors aspect ratio higher? Preferably I would want mine to be 16:9 as it would be the perfect ration for connecting my XBox 360. At the moment I found people experiencing a thick black border which is not nice :(

Considering how much this monitor is on retail for I am hoping I can adjust the aspect ratio or I am going to find myself to be a very unhappy bunny :(

Thanks people, appreciate the help.
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This thread is bizarre :D

Aspect ratio is just the width of your screen divided by the height, so it can't be changed without sawing the bottom third off your screen. The 360 supports 4:3, 5:4 and 16:9 modes though (using the VGA cable), so it's completely up to you whether you want the picture to fill your screen or display in widescreen with borders top and bottom, or even display in widescreen but stretched to fill the screen (which looks horrible btw). There really is no problem using a 360 on a screen like yours, assuming it has decent scaling control.

Also 16:9 is not a higher aspect ratio, it's just a different one, a widescreen one. It just descibes the shape of your screen.
 
Serpico said:
My monitor has an aspect ratio of 12000:9000.

Me >>>>>> you all.

:)
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You forgot to simplify;

(12000:9000)/1000 = 12:9
(12:9)/3 = 4:3

So you have the same aspect ratio as like everyone else and widescreen >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you

Math ***!
 
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