One thing I still don't understand is the 1:1 pixel mapping with 1080 sources. If I'm understanding correctly, this means that, when fed with a 1920x1080 signal, the screen will map this directly to screen pixels, resulting in black bars at the top and bottom of the screen, each 60 pixels high?
Surely whether this is desirable depends on the aspect ratio of the source? When displaying 1920x1080 as described above, the image would have an aspect ratio of 1.78:1 or 16:9. This is fine if the source material is 1.78:1 aspect but what if it's a 2.35:1 widescreen movie from something like a Bluray or HD-DVD box? In this case the image will be compressed horizontally and look totally wrong.
In this latter case, you'd actually want the screen to compress the image vertically so it only used 817 of the vertical pixels, producing black bars each around 192 pixels high and only using 68% of the screen area. Can the monitor do this?
When playing HD content through a PC, the signal fed to the monitor will always be the full 1920x1200 that's configured in Windows' display properties, it'd be up to the media player used to scale the content to this size, thus rendering 1:1 pixel mapping inconsequential.
