Quick question: Can your Dell 2005FPW do 4:3 aspect from composite video input?

[CZroe]

I think my Dell 2005FPW might be screwed up. My brother has connected an N64 to play our new import (Sin & Pinishment FTW!) but it forces us to stretch/squash to 16:9. Other aspect setting stretch it further! There is no way to get it to standard 4:3 aspect using the controls. We've had some USB hub power issues and such so I'm thinking something may have been fried... After all, how many composite video sources do you know that are widescreen? That's why it makes no sense to lock it to 16:9.

 

[Ichinisan]

Sure it wasn't 16:10?

 

[CZroe]

Sure it wasn't 16:10?

Yes. The monitor added letterboxing and stretched horizontally.

 

[Burpo]

That Monitor is 1680 x 1050 (16:10). The Nintendo 64 has a relatively low native resolution of 256x224, 320x240, 640x480 interlace, and will look pretty bad on that monitor. Images are often blockish and stretchy looking, especially in 16:9 wide screen on a game that is not programmed to run in that mode. The only thing that can be done is to emulate.. A decent computer running N64 games can yield much better resolution, and would probably give the results you want.

 

[CZroe]

That Monitor is 1680 x 1050 (16:10). The Nintendo 64 has a relatively low native resolution of 256x224, 320x240, 640x480 interlace, and will look pretty bad on that monitor. Images are often blockish and stretchy looking, especially in 16:9 wide screen on a game that is not programmed to run in that mode. The only thing that can be done is to emulate.. A decent computer running N64 games can yield much better resolution, and would probably give the results you want.

Oh, believe me. I know all that. That's not the problem. The problem is that this particular source screws up and aspect controls stop working. This thread is ancient and we don't even have that monitor anymore but my brother felt the need to bump it because we were arguing about it recently and he completely forgot about this issue. I did further testing with Episode 1 Racer, which supports two resolutions with the Expansion Pak, and the resolution change DOES change the way it handles the image. It's just a strange quirk with this LCD and that source at that resolution.

 

[mfenn]

Locking necro thread.

mfenn
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