Guest Christine Posted August 6, 2007 Posted August 6, 2007 I have always used a 19" monitor and my daughter just bought me a 22" wide flat screen monitor. My question is: what is the best resolution for this size. When I go to MSN.com there is so much space on both sides of the screen and all the information is in the center. Any and all help is greatly appreicated.
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted August 6, 2007 Posted August 6, 2007 Re: New Monitor Resolution On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 16:38:03 -0700, Christine <Christine@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > I have always used a 19" monitor and my daughter just bought me a 22" wide > flat screen monitor. My question is: what is the best resolution for this > size. When I go to MSN.com there is so much space on both sides of the > screen and all the information is in the center. Any and all help is greatly > appreicated. Two points: 1. LCD monitors have a native resolution. You should always run an LCD monitor at that native resolution, since anything else will produce poor results. Check your monitor's documentation for what that native resolution is. 2. Wide-screen monitors need a wide0screen resolution. Depending on what video card you have, and how old it is, you may not have support for that resolution on it. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
Guest ThaDraGun Posted August 7, 2007 Posted August 7, 2007 Re: New Monitor Resolution You will always see alot of space on both sides. Microsoft has the page set a certain way in different tables. You have a widescreen monitor.. if it fit the whole screen it wouldn't look right. You will find ALOT of webpages are like that, it may be annoying but you'll get used to it. Off the top of my head, Facebook is another one. I've just tried a whole bunch of my bookmarked websites and almost all the ones I tried are like that. Also you'll notice is alot of times (not always) if you watch an imbeded video in your browser it will be stretched, or squished... or half cut off. To watch it properly you will have to go to fullscreen. Happens to me anyways. Like Ken Blake said check the manual for what resolution you need to set at. I have a 19" widescreen and mine is set at 1440x900. Chances are, yours will probably be the same. Usually the newer monitors will tell you if its not set at the optiminal resolution. -Marcel "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote: > On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 16:38:03 -0700, Christine > <Christine@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > > I have always used a 19" monitor and my daughter just bought me a 22" wide > > flat screen monitor. My question is: what is the best resolution for this > > size. When I go to MSN.com there is so much space on both sides of the > > screen and all the information is in the center. Any and all help is greatly > > appreicated. > > > > Two points: > > 1. LCD monitors have a native resolution. You should always run an LCD > monitor at that native resolution, since anything else will produce > poor results. Check your monitor's documentation for what that native > resolution is. > > 2. Wide-screen monitors need a wide0screen resolution. Depending on > what video card you have, and how old it is, you may not have support > for that resolution on it. > > -- > Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User > Please Reply to the Newsgroup >
Guest Jerry Posted August 7, 2007 Posted August 7, 2007 Re: New Monitor Resolution My Samsung 225bw wide screen's native resolution is 1680 x 1050 and I have had NO problems with the display filling the screen - no space or artifacts are left/right/top/botton despite the comments by one ThaDraGun. And no problems with videos either. "Christine" <Christine@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:9483B64D-9437-46E3-9638-774CC885F79B@microsoft.com... >I have always used a 19" monitor and my daughter just bought me a 22" wide > flat screen monitor. My question is: what is the best resolution for this > size. When I go to MSN.com there is so much space on both sides of the > screen and all the information is in the center. Any and all help is > greatly > appreicated. >
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted August 7, 2007 Posted August 7, 2007 Re: New Monitor Resolution On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 19:56:24 -0700, "Jerry" <ChiefZekeNoSpam@MSN.com> wrote: > My Samsung 225bw wide screen's native resolution is 1680 x 1050 and I have > had NO problems with the display filling the screen - no space or artifacts > are left/right/top/botton despite the comments by one ThaDraGun. Of course. ThaDraGun's comments were clearly incorrect. > And no > problems with videos either. > > "Christine" <Christine@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:9483B64D-9437-46E3-9638-774CC885F79B@microsoft.com... > >I have always used a 19" monitor and my daughter just bought me a 22" wide > > flat screen monitor. My question is: what is the best resolution for this > > size. When I go to MSN.com there is so much space on both sides of the > > screen and all the information is in the center. Any and all help is > > greatly > > appreicated. > > > -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
Guest Paul Randall Posted August 8, 2007 Posted August 8, 2007 Re: New Monitor Resolution "Christine" <Christine@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:9483B64D-9437-46E3-9638-774CC885F79B@microsoft.com... >I have always used a 19" monitor and my daughter just bought me a 22" wide > flat screen monitor. My question is: what is the best resolution for this > size. When I go to MSN.com there is so much space on both sides of the > screen and all the information is in the center. Any and all help is > greatly > appreicated. There is no "best resolution for this size". There may be a "best" for your situation. Using the native resolution gives the sharpest image because there is no interpolation between resolution sent by video card and resolution of the screen. Your old analog monitor had to interpolate no matter what resolution you chose, and you could probably expand or shrink the display area with controls on the front of the monitor. I imagine that you set the resolution to a value that you were most comfortable with, not necessarily the highest resolution available for the old monitor. That is the definition of "best" you should use with your new monitor. For some video card/screen combinations, like my 5-year old Sony laptop, if I choose a lower resolution than the screens native resolution, it just uses a smaller space in the center of the screen for the display. Other laptops I've used will use the full size of the screen, making everything bigger but a little fuzzy due to the interpolation. Your new monitor may stretch the image to make it fill the screen, causing distortion when you choose resolutions that don't match the wide screen height to width ratio. I would advise trying different resolutions to see what is the most comfortable (least stressful) for you. There are utilities that sit in the tray that require just two or three clicks to choose and change resolution. Maybe you will have a different best resolution for different tasks. -Paul Randall
Guest Anna Posted August 8, 2007 Posted August 8, 2007 Re: New Monitor Resolution > "Christine" <Christine@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:9483B64D-9437-46E3-9638-774CC885F79B@microsoft.com... >>I have always used a 19" monitor and my daughter just bought me a 22" wide >> flat screen monitor. My question is: what is the best resolution for >> this >> size. When I go to MSN.com there is so much space on both sides of the >> screen and all the information is in the center. Any and all help is >> greatly >> appreicated. Christine: For nearly every 22" LCD (flat screen) monitor, the native resolution is 1680 x 1050. Assuming your graphics/video card can support that resolution, why don't you try setting it that way and see if it's OK for your viewing. I assume you know how to set a monitor's resolution in XP. Anna
Guest ThaDraGun Posted August 10, 2007 Posted August 10, 2007 Re: New Monitor Resolution Hmmm... Really sorry about that. I honestly thought that was normal. I set my monitor to what is recommended by viewsonic. I guess I should try it on 1680 x 1050 and see if that makes any changes. "Jerry" wrote: > My Samsung 225bw wide screen's native resolution is 1680 x 1050 and I have > had NO problems with the display filling the screen - no space or artifacts > are left/right/top/botton despite the comments by one ThaDraGun. And no > problems with videos either. > > "Christine" <Christine@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:9483B64D-9437-46E3-9638-774CC885F79B@microsoft.com... > >I have always used a 19" monitor and my daughter just bought me a 22" wide > > flat screen monitor. My question is: what is the best resolution for this > > size. When I go to MSN.com there is so much space on both sides of the > > screen and all the information is in the center. Any and all help is > > greatly > > appreicated. > > > > >
Guest ThaDraGun Posted August 10, 2007 Posted August 10, 2007 Re: New Monitor Resolution How do I make it so that those pages fill the whole screen on mine? I have a ViewSonic 19" Widescreen (VA1912wb). Using msn.com as an example.. no matter what resolution it is set at that page always looks the same. Depending on what resolution I put it at the bigger the spaces are at the side. By space I don't mean the screen doesnt go the whole width or is black at the sides.. The space is the shaded blue background that msn has set on there and the main content is just stuck in the centre of the screen and never changes size. I still don't think it would look right if that centre content was across the width of my screen but I want to see what it's supposed to look like and decide if I like it like that better. > "Jerry" wrote: > > > My Samsung 225bw wide screen's native resolution is 1680 x 1050 and I have > > had NO problems with the display filling the screen - no space or artifacts > > are left/right/top/botton despite the comments by one ThaDraGun. And no > > problems with videos either. > > > > "Christine" <Christine@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > > news:9483B64D-9437-46E3-9638-774CC885F79B@microsoft.com... > > >I have always used a 19" monitor and my daughter just bought me a 22" wide > > > flat screen monitor. My question is: what is the best resolution for this > > > size. When I go to MSN.com there is so much space on both sides of the > > > screen and all the information is in the center. Any and all help is > > > greatly > > > appreicated. > > > > > > > > >
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