Aspect scaling

Participant · 29 Jul 2007 at 15:21

I can't find much useful information on this - can someone explain whether I'm correct in saying that it allows lower-than-native resolutions to still fill the whole screen on a TFT, like CRTs can do?

If this is the case can someone tell me if the new Dell 24" TFTs support this as I want a 24" monitor but won't be able to get a GTX in the same month.

Many thanks.

Clarkey · 29 Jul 2007 at 17:18

yes and yes, but scaling has nothing to do with 'aspect'.

fish99 · 29 Jul 2007 at 17:26

The default on pretty much all screens is for non-native resolutions to fill the screen. What the expensive monitors like the 2407WFP can also do is show the resolution 1:1, or scale it while maintaining the aspect ratio (which would give you side borders on 4:3 resolutions but at least it wouldn't be horizontally streteched). Most people don't want resolutions like 1600*1200 just stretched to fill the whole screen on a 1920*1200 screen because the aspect ratio is wrong and everything looks horizontally stretched (ie too flat).

Of course if you're using a 16:10 mode like say 1280*800, 1440*900 or 1680*1050 on the 2407, you get the option to either have it stretched to fill the screen (which is what I would choose), or have it displayed 1:1 (which would give you borders all round and a small picture).

Participant · 30 Jul 2007 at 09:42

fish99 said:
The default on pretty much all screens is for non-native resolutions to fill the screen. What the expensive monitors like the 2407WFP can also do is show the resolution 1:1, or scale it while maintaining the aspect ratio (which would give you side borders on 4:3 resolutions but at least it wouldn't be horizontally streteched). Most people don't want resolutions like 1600*1200 just stretched to fill the whole screen on a 1920*1200 screen because the aspect ratio is wrong and everything looks horizontally stretched (ie too flat).

Of course if you're using a 16:10 mode like say 1280*800, 1440*900 or 1680*1050 on the 2407, you get the option to either have it stretched to fill the screen (which is what I would choose), or have it displayed 1:1 (which would give you borders all round and a small picture).

Bullseye. Thanks buddy.

Clarkey - what do you mean by your comment.