Caporegime
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- 18 Oct 2002
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i was thinking about going up from a 1680x1050 20" dell screen to a 1920x1200 screen. it would be used mostly as a gaming monitor for with the pc, but also have a xbox 360 and wanted to know what the deal is with connecting it and also playing back high def films later on when blu ray drives aren't stupidly priced.
afaik it doesn't have a hdmi but it has a hdcp compatible dvi port, honestly i have no clue what that means. that a gfx card with hdcp support won't have any issues outputting full 1080p res without limited due to the copyright crap on the disc, and the only difference with hdmi is sound won't be on that cable aswell?
also, in general how are samsungs with 1080i/p resolution, do they autostretch it, or leave black bars to keep the resolution? hopefully with drivers/software films should be less of an issue as should be able to output through graphics card somehow at proper resolution without any stretching. currently the 360 on the dell(the cheap version 20") just stretches the image to fill the screen and doesn't look quite right.
as for the 360, what do most people use 720p or 1080i?
afaik it doesn't have a hdmi but it has a hdcp compatible dvi port, honestly i have no clue what that means. that a gfx card with hdcp support won't have any issues outputting full 1080p res without limited due to the copyright crap on the disc, and the only difference with hdmi is sound won't be on that cable aswell?
also, in general how are samsungs with 1080i/p resolution, do they autostretch it, or leave black bars to keep the resolution? hopefully with drivers/software films should be less of an issue as should be able to output through graphics card somehow at proper resolution without any stretching. currently the 360 on the dell(the cheap version 20") just stretches the image to fill the screen and doesn't look quite right.
as for the 360, what do most people use 720p or 1080i?
