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Martijn Saly
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Mon Dec 13, 2004 12:58 am Post subject:
Widescreen TV-out (Radeon 9100 IGP) |
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I've got an Aristona 28" widescreen TV. I live in Europe, so we use PAL-B
(TV supports NTSC, but that doesn't fix the problem, it only introduces the
weird NTSC-colors).
I really can't get a good widescreen output. I would think a resultion of
856x480 would be perfect, because that's the exact resolution of a PAL
widescreen TV. However, I can't set that resolution normally, and when I try
setting it with PowerStrip, the image is almost good. Horizontally, it looks
like the image is shrunk and then stretched again.
Note that I'm not using Cinema/Theater mode, I use the TV as the primary
display, so it has nothing to do with Cinema/Theater mode.
So, concluding: what do I need to do to get a widescreen image on my TV
without the image being stretched?
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kalev-
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Mon Dec 13, 2004 7:36 pm Post subject:
Re: Widescreen TV-out (Radeon 9100 IGP) |
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Martijn Saly wrote:
| Quote: | I've got an Aristona 28" widescreen TV. I live in Europe, so we use PAL-B
(TV supports NTSC, but that doesn't fix the problem, it only introduces
the weird NTSC-colors).
I really can't get a good widescreen output. I would think a resultion of
856x480 would be perfect, because that's the exact resolution of a PAL
widescreen TV. However, I can't set that resolution normally, and when I
try setting it with PowerStrip, the image is almost good. Horizontally, it
looks like the image is shrunk and then stretched again.
Note that I'm not using Cinema/Theater mode, I use the TV as the primary
display, so it has nothing to do with Cinema/Theater mode.
So, concluding: what do I need to do to get a widescreen image on my TV
without the image being stretched?
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There's different adjustments (image processors) on TVs - one being "image
stretching" aka 4:3 and 16:9 ratio stuff. You may want to check that
you're setting this properly. I would guess 16:9. (So each pixel is still
interpreted as being square.)
Now when I think about this -- it may be that (??) some TVs can't actually
receive a 16:9 true square pixel sized image. Not sure about this. But I
think anamorphic (wide-screen) is actually just wide pixels. More pixels
aren't actually coming in from the source.
Sorry if this isn't helping..
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Martijn Saly
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Tue Dec 14, 2004 2:51 am Post subject:
Re: Widescreen TV-out (Radeon 9100 IGP) |
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kalev- wrote:
| Quote: | There's different adjustments (image processors) on TVs - one being "image
stretching" aka 4:3 and 16:9 ratio stuff. You may want to check that
you're setting this properly. I would guess 16:9. (So each pixel is still
interpreted as being square.)
Now when I think about this -- it may be that (??) some TVs can't actually
receive a 16:9 true square pixel sized image. Not sure about this. But I
think anamorphic (wide-screen) is actually just wide pixels. More pixels
aren't actually coming in from the source.
Sorry if this isn't helping..
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Stretching on the TV doesn't help. The image outputted to the TV is already
full-screen. The problem is that the card cannot output with 16:9 aspect
ratio, resulting in a horizontally stretched and scrollable image. If the
image would just shrink horizontally but not vertically, everything would be OK.
I don;t know what this has to do with anamorphic, but I do know that when I
set a 16:9 resolution like 1024x576, the image looks vertically stretched on
a regular monitor, so it should look perfect on my TV (I guess that's
anamorphic). But the card refuses to output the image without stretching it,
mainly because I just can't tell the driver that I have a widescreen TV.
So again, how do I actually fix this?
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First of One
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Tue Dec 14, 2004 10:10 pm Post subject:
Re: Widescreen TV-out (Radeon 9100 IGP) |
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Don't have a TV hooked up myself. However, have tried playing with the size
adjustments and sync methods in Monitor Properties?
Display Properties -> Settings tab -> Advanced -> Displays tab -> click on
the button representing your TV.
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"Martijn Saly" <martijn@thany.invalid.org> wrote in message
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| Quote: | I've got an Aristona 28" widescreen TV. I live in Europe, so we use PAL-B
(TV supports NTSC, but that doesn't fix the problem, it only introduces
the
weird NTSC-colors).
I really can't get a good widescreen output. I would think a resultion of
856x480 would be perfect, because that's the exact resolution of a PAL
widescreen TV. However, I can't set that resolution normally, and when I
try
setting it with PowerStrip, the image is almost good. Horizontally, it
looks
like the image is shrunk and then stretched again.
Note that I'm not using Cinema/Theater mode, I use the TV as the primary
display, so it has nothing to do with Cinema/Theater mode.
So, concluding: what do I need to do to get a widescreen image on my TV
without the image being stretched?
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Thanks,
Martijn Saly |
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Martijn Saly
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Wed Dec 15, 2004 1:05 am Post subject:
Re: Widescreen TV-out (Radeon 9100 IGP) |
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First of One wrote:
| Quote: | Don't have a TV hooked up myself. However, have tried playing with the size
adjustments and sync methods in Monitor Properties?
Display Properties -> Settings tab -> Advanced -> Displays tab -> click on
the button representing your TV.
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Those are not available, because I obviously use overscan. Aside that, the
image is already full-screen, it just not the right aspect ratio (Just read
my other post, I don't feel like explaining it again).
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Martijn Saly |
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