good day to buy 30" monitor

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Wed Jun 24 15:27:19 UTC 2009


Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:16:29PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
>   
>> While my Blu-ray player does that, my DVD player doesn't.  When watching
>> a wide screen movie on a wide screen set, I have to use stretch mode to
>> get it to display properly.
>>     
>
> Well I have seen DVD players that support widescreen output.  Many do not.
> Some even send something in the signal to tell a good TV what aspect
> ratio to use for that signal.
>
>   
When such a DVD player sends a wide screen signal to the TV, does it
actually produce a different signal or does it just tell the set to
display in wide screen?

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