Just a quick addition. The screen itself is a 16x9 screen, but the pixels are not square pixels, so each pixel is stretched to fit the screen. So if you pass it a 720p component signal, it will display correctly, but will lack some resolution in the horizontal dimension.
One of the frustrating thing about these "non-standard" displays is that when you hook them up via VGA or DVI to a PC (such as MCE), Windows will recognize them as a 4x3 screen and stretch everything. To get around this you either have to go into the display settings and try and force it into a 16x9 resolution (usually 1280x768 works) or hook it up via component cables and send a true 720p signal (1280x720).
I'd love for someone to start coming out with affordable native 720p plasma's.
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D Berrett @ Nov 6th 2005 6:33PM
Just a quick addition. The screen itself is a 16x9 screen, but the pixels are not square pixels, so each pixel is stretched to fit the screen. So if you pass it a 720p component signal, it will display correctly, but will lack some resolution in the horizontal dimension.
One of the frustrating thing about these "non-standard" displays is that when you hook them up via VGA or DVI to a PC (such as MCE), Windows will recognize them as a 4x3 screen and stretch everything. To get around this you either have to go into the display settings and try and force it into a 16x9 resolution (usually 1280x768 works) or hook it up via component cables and send a true 720p signal (1280x720).
I'd love for someone to start coming out with affordable native 720p plasma's.