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Ok, so, with the 2005FP hitting an all time low of $384 today, next payday its time for me to bite.... but Ive got a few functionality questions.

4:3 games that dont support widescreen, will it put up bars on the sides of the screen for a 4:3 image in the middle? or does it autostretch to fit the screen?

DVI and VGA inputs, can they both be used by different computers? and can you PIP the VGA image?

Umm, thats all for now... more as I think of em

Puts up bars on the side.

You can't PiP a VGA image. That was one of the selling points for me and I was disappointed. Well, you can PiP VGA just not along with DVI. It's one or the other.

Ransure wrote:Ok, so, with the 2005FP hitting an all time low of $384 today, next payday its time for me to bite.... but Ive got a few functionality questions.

4:3 games that dont support widescreen, will it put up bars on the sides of the screen for a 4:3 image in the middle? or does it autostretch to fit the screen?

DVI and VGA inputs, can they both be used by different computers? and can you PIP the VGA image?

Umm, thats all for now... more as I think of em

You have the option of using pixel for pixel resolution which would put black bars on the sides (preferred), stretching it to fit entire window or using aspect ratio which interpolates. Aspect ratio is used for stuff like PS2 as a 480i picture is puny on a 1920X1200 screen. (a little Xbox or PS2 PiP window works great though.

I use the PiP to watch Satellite TV sometimes while surfing but it's really not worth it for me as my setup has a projector viewable from where I sit but if you don't have another display for TV handy in the room, you can watch high quality HDTV in the PiP and swap it out to full screen when you wish so it does have it's uses.

I've been using my monitor in Portrait mode more than Lanscape lately, 1200X1920 instead of 1920X1200, as I seem to work two windows better vertically than horizontally. If you are going to use it in landscape mode but read comics full page at a time in portrait mode, one nice trick is to configure CDisplay to rotate all pages to the left. That way you can open CDisplay and then swing you monitor into portrait without having to change the resolutions in display properties each time.

Can you switch between the two if both PC's are on? I have both at my desk, and a 7 year old KVM switching them to my current monitor... Im also thinking of trying this Stardock utility...



http://www.stardock.com/products/multiplicity/

Cool idea on CDisplay Winnow... can I set it up to do 2 pages side by side fit to screen?... cause on my 19" now I dont mind fitting the screen to height..

Ransure wrote:Can you switch between the two if both PC's are on? I have both at my desk, and a 7 year old KVM switching them to my current monitor... Im also thinking of trying this Stardock utility...

Yes (although on initial bootup, you may need to be on the connection the PC you're booting is on for initial recognition/configuring. Not sure on that though)

For my projector, as an example, I need to turn on my projector, then boot my computer so it recognizes my projector as a display. After that, I can turn my projector on and off each night as it's already initially been recongized by the video card/PC.

I havent turned off a PC in years power outages only...