Fullscreen dvd doesn't take up entire width of screen on 2406FPW

[KingGheedora]

I hit some buttons trying to figure out how to increase the brightness. Pretty much went through ever menu trying to find the brightness menu, but didn't seem like I changed any settings. But now when I enter fullscreen mode (using VLC media player) the width of the video image doesn't take up the width of the LCD. The video width seems equal to the height of the screen. The image isn't distorted at all, it's just a waste of screen space because there's blank space above, below, and to the sides of the image.

How to the movie to take up more width?

 

[Laminator]

A DVD has a resolution of 720x480, whereas your 2407WFP or 2405WFP has a native resolution of 1920x1200. When you went through the menu, you might have enabled 1:1 pixel mapping, which forces the monitor to match the resolution of the content on a 1:1 basis with the pixels on the monitor. Thus, you would only be using 720x480 pixels on the monitor and the image wouldn't take up all 1920x1200 pixels of the monitor so it would not take up the whole screen and the blank space would represent the unused pixels.

You can probably turn of 1:1 pixel mapping the monitor's menu. Of course, this means some scaling algorithm would have to be performed to render the image at 1920x1200, which would degrade the quality of the image. This is done either through software by your CPU or through hardware by your video card.