Soldato
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Ok, I am sorry for being a pain in the butt, however there are a few things I am not certain with on TFT's... and really want to know what it is I have to look for 
I understand that the higher the contrast ratio, the better... same goes for resolution and so on. The things that bug me though are aspect rations are the whole "stretch to fit" thing.
For example, with the viewsonic VX2025, I have been told that the screen doesnt allow you to manually stretch the image, and so the entire image just fills the screen with NO borders.. In other words, an xbox 360 outputting at 1366x768 will have NO borders at all, and the entire screen shall be filled... (which obviously means that it is ignoring that the image is not 1680x1050, and making it fit the entire screen anyway).
So this would make the same thing happen with a 640x480 image to? It would basically say, sod the ratio, and convert it to a 16:10 format image, with no borders on the monitor at all? Also, what would happen if a film (for example star wars, episode 3) was played on the screen? since it has the "borders" on top and bottom, because it is a widescreen film? would it simply remove all the borders and stretch the image, or would it keep the borders how they are?
The Phillips 20" wide though, has aspect ration functions... which means that you can: Stretch the entire image to fit the entire screen, so it would act as it would on the Viewsonic, Fit image to screen, so in other words, you may have small borders around the image, but it wont stretch the image horribly. And finally you have the perserve pixels. So if it is 640x480, only that amount of pixels on the screen are used?
Once again, I am sorry for asking what are probablly dumb questions, but I am not really certain on TFT's... I really love the look of the viewsonic, but before I order it I need to know what kind of experience I will have with it and my 360... like is it just a case of pressing a button and inputs change between DVI and VGA? I understand a DVI is supplied with the Viewsonic, so if it really does stretch everything and just makes it full screen and no bars, it would be a PERFECT monitor for me. (BTW< I am using an ATI graphics card, just so you know).
Thanks again all, once again sorry for being a pain.
I understand that the higher the contrast ratio, the better... same goes for resolution and so on. The things that bug me though are aspect rations are the whole "stretch to fit" thing.
For example, with the viewsonic VX2025, I have been told that the screen doesnt allow you to manually stretch the image, and so the entire image just fills the screen with NO borders.. In other words, an xbox 360 outputting at 1366x768 will have NO borders at all, and the entire screen shall be filled... (which obviously means that it is ignoring that the image is not 1680x1050, and making it fit the entire screen anyway).
So this would make the same thing happen with a 640x480 image to? It would basically say, sod the ratio, and convert it to a 16:10 format image, with no borders on the monitor at all? Also, what would happen if a film (for example star wars, episode 3) was played on the screen? since it has the "borders" on top and bottom, because it is a widescreen film? would it simply remove all the borders and stretch the image, or would it keep the borders how they are?
The Phillips 20" wide though, has aspect ration functions... which means that you can: Stretch the entire image to fit the entire screen, so it would act as it would on the Viewsonic, Fit image to screen, so in other words, you may have small borders around the image, but it wont stretch the image horribly. And finally you have the perserve pixels. So if it is 640x480, only that amount of pixels on the screen are used?
Once again, I am sorry for asking what are probablly dumb questions, but I am not really certain on TFT's... I really love the look of the viewsonic, but before I order it I need to know what kind of experience I will have with it and my 360... like is it just a case of pressing a button and inputs change between DVI and VGA? I understand a DVI is supplied with the Viewsonic, so if it really does stretch everything and just makes it full screen and no bars, it would be a PERFECT monitor for me. (BTW< I am using an ATI graphics card, just so you know).
Thanks again all, once again sorry for being a pain.
