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my 2001FP LCD (dell model) plays video files/DVD's distorted at full screen...

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jonesad

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Hello,
I have a Dell UltraSharp 2001FP 20.1-inch Flat Panel LCD monitor, and i just tested out a DVD using Cyberlink PowerDVD software. It looks great, but once I make it full screen, the video gets very distorted. So I took an old avi file I have and played it in windows media player v10, when I make it full screen, the same thing happens. Is there something I need to do to make full screen video work on this monitor, or is this a downfall of this monitor no one mentioned?

Thanks!
 
What makes you think this has anything to do with your monitor? Have you tried other monitors and not seen the same result?

What do you mean the video is distorted? Is it stretching to take up the whole screen when it should be letterboxing it?

What's your video card? Maybe your video drivers just think you have a different aspect display than you do. I think PowerDVD might have some kind of a "preserve aspect" option that fixes this.
 
What do you mean by 'distorted'?

If it is just 'blocky' then it is due to the high resolution 1600x1200 on low quality video. Video will not look as good when it is scaled to fit a bigger resolution without a serious amount of work.

It shouldn't be stretched.

The 4:3 video should fill it completely and a widescreen video should hae the top and bottom bars and you should see it in the correct aspect ratio as long as you don't 'zoom' in to it.

Koing

 
Using DVI cable to connect. I think its the monitor because my rig works fine with both of my other monitors (Samsung CRT and Sony CRT). Using the latest nvidia drivers, 66.93 WQHL.

By "distorted" I mean that it looks almost as if the sync is off so that the image is trying to overlay itself. Like there are 2 pictures on top of each other, but one is shifted to the right...make sense? Anyone with this monitor have this problem?
 
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