Hi. I ordered a widescreen for my wifes computer. Does windows XP have all the neccessary settings for this to work properly? Is there any forseen problems with this?
How do the wide screens fit a webpage, is it stretched? Anything else you can tell a widescreen newbie? Thanks in advance.
Oh yeah, its an acer widescreen and a sony vaio PCV-RS510 with onboard Intel 82865 G Graphics.
2007-02-05 15:46:31 · 3 answers · asked by eetrapnoel 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Monitors
If XP does not have the appropriate drivers already built in, the monitor should come with an included driver/software disk that you can use to get it up and running.
As for websites, basically all it does is make it look like it would if you blocked off a strip of screen on the top or bottom, since most webpages are designed for vertical but not horizontal scrolling. Alternately, some websites might have blank space on the right or left/right edges because they're formatted with a narrower screen in mind (none that I've ever seen would be Right Justified, resulting in extra blank space only on the left, though).
The biggest differences will come in movie playback (as it will be able to use more of the screen for any anamorphic widescreen formatted movies, but it will have blank strips on the sides for standard-ratio/fullscreen DVDs, and it will have black borders all the way around for anything that's letterboxed widescreen formatted), and for video games that use the full screen (since some games, especially older ones, do not include widescreen support, so in those cases the image will indeed be stretched to fit the screen).
Also, screen resolution for LCD and plasma displays will only work well with one setting, since they are fixed-pixel displays and you want them to display one pixel of image per pixel of screen (CRT, which is very rare in both widescreen and HD formats, but does exist in either, can be switched from one display setting to another without any problems). For instance, my 15.4" widescreen laptop needs to be set to display at 1280x800, my 19" widescreen desktop monitor needs to be set to 1440x900, and your monitor, if it's model #AL1916WASD as I suspect (that appears to be the only Acer 19" widecreen monitor out there), it displays best in 1440x900 as well.
2007-02-05 15:57:10 · answer #1 · answered by the_amazing_purple_dave 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just read the paperwork and chose a widescreen resolution (the paper work should say "Supports X Resolutions at 32bit" where X are resolutions like 800x600 and 1024x768... to get good use out of a wide screen... look for 1280+x780+ resolution.
2007-02-05 23:55:38 · answer #2 · answered by itpatrickrice 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Windows should automatically detect the monitor and you should be up and running upon restart; although, you might want to install the drivers and software provided with the monitor. As for the screen resolution, I believe for widescreen monitors, it is 1280x960. At this resolution the image stays sharp; change the resolutions and text and pictures will get blurry,
2007-02-05 23:54:58 · answer #3 · answered by MuRcIElaGo 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋