downsizing video monitor

I am looking for a video monitor that is capable of downsizing lower resolution
video. What I mean by this is this: Suppose the monitor native resolution is
1680x1050. Now suppose I feed it with 1440x900 video, analog or digital. What
I want to have the option to do is to display the 1440x900 the 1440x900 pixels
in the center of the screen, surrounded by black (or even a chosen color) so
that each video pixel is displayed exactly in an LCD cell. Obviously doing it
in analog means adjusting the conversion clock just right. This would mean a
rather low resolution like 640x480 would be quite small. Exact doubling would
also be acceptable (e.g. display 640x480 as 1280x960). The purpose for this
is to be able to test different video resolutions and see how well the display
as if being displayed in the native format. The larger the native resolution
of such a monitor, the better. The preferred resolution would be at least
1920x1080 but not more than 2560x1536. 4:3 preferred over 16:10 or 16:9.

I recently bought a monitor/TV (e.g. it has an ATSC tuner) with 1440x900 native
resolution. That's 16:10. When it gets a 16:9 TV signal, it rescales it to
fill in the full 16:10 despite the TV picture being 16:9. It does have an option
to pillarbox to 4:3. But it does not have an option to letterbox to true 16:9.
So it makes HD TV pictures a bit distorted.

I do not need a tuner in this one; it is strictly to become a computer monitor.

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<phil-news-nospam.RemoveThis@ipal.net> wrote in message
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>I am looking for a video monitor that is capable of downsizing lower
>resolution
> video. What I mean by this is this: Suppose the monitor native
> resolution is
> 1680x1050. Now suppose I feed it with 1440x900 video, analog or digital.
> What
> I want to have the option to do is to display the 1440x900 the 1440x900
> pixels
> in the center of the screen, surrounded by black (or even a chosen color)
> so
> that each video pixel is displayed exactly in an LCD cell. Obviously
> doing it
> in analog means adjusting the conversion clock just right. This would
> mean a
> rather low resolution like 640x480 would be quite small. Exact doubling
> would
> also be acceptable (e.g. display 640x480 as 1280x960). The purpose for
> this
> is to be able to test different video resolutions and see how well the
> display
> as if being displayed in the native format. The larger the native
> resolution
> of such a monitor, the better. The preferred resolution would be at least
> 1920x1080 but not more than 2560x1536. 4:3 preferred over 16:10 or 16:9.
>
> I recently bought a monitor/TV (e.g. it has an ATSC tuner) with 1440x900
> native
> resolution. That's 16:10. When it gets a 16:9 TV signal, it rescales it
> to
> fill in the full 16:10 despite the TV picture being 16:9. It does have an
> option
> to pillarbox to 4:3. But it does not have an option to letterbox to true
> 16:9.
> So it makes HD TV pictures a bit distorted.
>
> I do not need a tuner in this one; it is strictly to become a computer
> monitor.
>
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> | Phil Howard KA9WGN (ka9wgn.ham.org) / Do not send to the address below
> |
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Look for a monitor that lists 1:1 scaling option - that means exactly
what you
want. Not all monitors offer that as an option, though, and it may take some
scouting to find one, but they do exist (typically "high end" models).

HTH
NGA