Pls Tom's Experts clarify!:)

[mpoy]

1. Are all LCD monitors capable of displaying the image at the center of the screen when a lower resolution than the native one is used? Is this a monitor or graphics driver feature?
2. Is the image quality then the same with the quality of the native resolution? (I believe it is)
3. I' m suspecting for this to work both resolutions must have the same aspect ratio, so what happens when u want to use a lower 4:3 resolution eg 1024x768 on a wide 19'' monitor?
4. Is it a dvi connector so important so I should definitely buy a monitor with this kind of connector? I have seen d-sub monitors in the same price range with dvi ones but with much better characteristics.

Thank you

 

[Hose]

1. Are all LCD monitors capable of displaying the image at the center of the screen when a lower resolution than the native one is used? Is this a monitor or graphics driver feature?
2. Is the image quality then the same with the quality of the native resolution? (I believe it is)
3. I' m suspecting for this to work both resolutions must have the same aspect ratio, so what happens when u want to use a lower 4:3 resolution eg 1024x768 on a wide 19'' monitor?
4. Is it a dvi connector so important so I should definitely buy a monitor with this kind of connector? I have seen d-sub monitors in the same price range with dvi ones but with much better characteristics.

Thank you

1. No. Both the monitor and graphics card/driver influence this.

2. No. Image quality is almost always less (often, MUCH less) when set at other than native.

3. Whenever you run at other than native, the image quality is degraded. It's not the same with all monitors nor all settings, so you just have to try it on yours.

4. Many professional reviews claim "no difference" between VGA and DVI. However, *some* VGA is lesser quality. The quality of your display is influenced by the monitor's panel, the chip which drives it, and the video card/driver.

It's always best to run at native resolution. If not, you'll just have to take your chances.

 

[Ghost9]

so at the moment if you don't run something at the native resolution, it will always stretch the picture to fit the size of the monitor, rather than fitting that size within the monitor to keep the pixels a 1:1 ratio? I'm not sure i said that right. The basic idea is that at the LCD is made for the native, as that is how many pixels the screen has to display, but if you go less than native, can't it keep the same pixel ratio? So maybe you'd get a black box or something around the image on the monitor for the pixels that are now not being filled?

 

[Hose]

so at the moment if you don't run something at the native resolution, it will always stretch the picture to fit the size of the monitor, rather than fitting that size within the monitor to keep the pixels a 1:1 ratio? I'm not sure i said that right. The basic idea is that at the LCD is made for the native, as that is how many pixels the screen has to display, but if you go less than native, can't it keep the same pixel ratio? So maybe you'd get a black box or something around the image on the monitor for the pixels that are now not being filled?

1. There isn't any *always*... sometimes it stretches, sometimes not. For best, you should look for monitors which claim "1:1 pixel mapping", or an equivalent,... logically, all should.... most do not.

2. Whenever you try to use "other than native", you may get odd-ball results... and they are viariable, so nobody can say in advance what they will be for your circumstance unless your monitor claims "1:1".

 

[stefx]

Are there known monitors that can do 1:1 mapping for lower resolutions?