Viewing DVD on 16:9 monitor?

[Burke55]

I just got a Viewsonic N-1700W wide screen LCD monitor and when watching widescreen DVD that normally fill the complete screen on my Hitachi widescreen HDTV.....these still have black boxes even the fully anamorphic 1:85 to one aspect ratio DVD's. I have a standard ATI Rage Pro 128 that came with my Dell. I am using RGB connection because the video card does not support DVI at this time. I also cannot seem to adjust the video card to the suggested resolution of 1280 by 768 @ 60 hz. Would it simply be that this older video card will not do this suggested resolution orcoiuld it be that I need a better driver for the card? Any ideas? Windows uses teh whole screen as long as I select full scan image scale in teh user menu of the monitor. I cant figure out why a widescreen DVD at 1:85 to one will not comletely fill my widescreen monitor.

 

[0roo0roo]

rage3d.com for new drivers. if that still doesn't work, your video card sucks.


running lcds at nonnative resolution is foolish.

 

[Accord99]

The monitor's resolution is 1280x768 which means it has an aspect ratio of 1.667. Widescreen TVs have an aspect ratio of 1.778.