[pahncrd]

Is it possible? My TV has been driving me crazy.


It is a Phillips CRT HDTV

does 480p and 1080i


The 1080i will not stretch to full screen.


Is there anyway to do a 800x600 resolution at 640x480 timings?


Or is there any way to fool my set into some how stretching the 1080i to full screen?


I am quite a noobie at this HDTV stuff, so any help would be much appreciated


I am using a VGA cable to connect it to my TV. The image works fine and everything, but certain games that I want to play will not do 640x480.


I can do stuff in 1080i, but the interfaces in games is much to small and hard to read.


I do have an ATI dongle, and here are my HTPC specs.


A7N8X-e Deluxe motherboard

CPU - Barton @ 2.4ghz

1 gig of Corsair XMS RAM

All in Wonder 9800 pro - retail

Antec Media PC case with 480watt truepower PSU


I sinply want to be able to run games at 800x600 and have it sampled at 480p on my TV. I am not sure if that is even possible of course. I just need to know it's possible at all.

 

[Gary McCoy]

Basicly, no that won't work. You can only embed a lesser resolution inside a larger one, by making areas of the screen black around the new image. The limitation is the TV not the HTPC. Your TV would appear to be compatible with two modes which are 480p and 540p/1080i.


I'm guessing that 640X480 is 4:3 in the center of your 16:9 screen? (just a guess, Phillips makes both 4:3 and 16:9 direct-view HDTVs.) It's scaling the 640X480 to display at 1080i. Your TV is really not a multiscanning monitor like a computer CRT, it has two fixed modes instead, or perhaps only one, and uses overscan to disguise the difference between 480p and 540p. It's the nature of the beast, I'm afraid.


Gary

 

[pahncrd]

The 640x480 is full screen 4:3 and the 1080i is of course 16:9 only.


Thanks for the help, guess I am stuck with Svideo, or an expensive piece of hardware to resample the image.