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Dell 2005FPW video display issue

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ramkrar

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Hi folks,

New to this forum. I have this monitor and it has been terrific so far. My only problem is getting the monitor to display wide screen dvds without the black band around it. Even trying to maxmize the screen size does not work whether it be windows media player, real player, etc.

I figured that after buying this monitor, the movies would take up the full perimeter of the screen from corner to corner. I have tried zooming and even reducing the res but nothing works. Does anyone have a clue as to how this can be done? I have a DVI connection with a Gforce 5600 Ultra running an Athlon 2500 XP Barton. Is this a driver issue? Thanks in advance!

Arv
 
What ratio is the DVD in?

You've got regular 4:3, 16:9, and then I think there is another Cinema standard
 
It's just that when I look at the movie(maximized)...there seems to be a lot of wasted space. Even if it were the 2:35 ratio, it would seem that the window could be larger
 
Well I know Sony WEGA 34" HDTV I couldn't get the movies to get ALL the black off the screen. It was with Lord of the rings (widescreen I think). Didn't get a chance to mess with too many of the settings on the TV or DVD player yet but I think the lines are there to stay.
 
someone else had this problem- Stangs55! That was his name! Search and you should see some info.
Kishan
 
Strange thing is that I have seen the 20 inch 4:3 ratio monitors display the movies from corner to corner(for 4:3 ratio movies of course). The horizontal bars come at the top and bottom for wide screen movies but the movie still runs to the width of the screen. I just thought if the 20 inch can display a 4:3 image from corner to corner why couldn't a wide screen monitor do the same thing with a 16:9 ratio image? I may check the mac monitors at work and see if it displays the full wide screen image on its 23 inch display.

Arv
 
Originally posted by: ramkrar
Most of them are 16:9 and I think there are a few 2:35( or something like that)
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Nearly all movies are 1.85, or 2.35, while your monitor is 1.60. So you'll still have black bars. There are some DVDs that are widescreen but are encoded letterboxed, which can cause black bars on all 4 sides for WS monitors.

 
so would it be better to save $$$ and just go with a nice 19" LCD? Gaming, even on a 12 ms lcd would be horrid (my preference heh). I was really looking into the 2005fpw for work (3ds max, adobe stuff) and movies, but if movies are only going to be about 1-2 inches wider for 16:9 movies what would be the point? I was really expecting movies to be full screen but then again this lcd is 16:10..more light on this topic should be shoned seeya
 
yeah for $620 on ebay its still over priced imo I'll just wait...and seeing people going off on getting it for 450.00-515.00 makes me not to want to invest at all right now hehe
 
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