[vexter0944]

O.k. - right off the top - thanks to all you guys out there - this forum has helped me a lot - I've been reading this forum for months and it's been a great help.


I have one question that I can't seem to get a straight answer to and hope someone here can shed some light on it for me (no pun intended...grin)


Here's my setup -


home built screen with cloth from Dazian (115" diag)

Lightware VP800 Projector (800x600 native)

P3-800, Asus CUBX mobo, 384MB - Matrox G400 Max and DVD Rom

PCTV Studio Pro Capture Card

WinDVD 4

Dscaler 4.16 Alpha

PowerDVD as well


The question is - my desktop is set to the projector's native resolution of 800x600 - is this the optimal desktop for DVD viewing? I assume whatever I 'feed' the projector (either widescreen or fullscreen) DVD's or TV - that it will just display what I feed it. So a Widescreen DVD will be Widescreen and fullscreen is fullscreen. Or do I need to change resolution when I'm playing DVD's? This has been very hard to get an answer to - and I'm really curious about it. If I do need to change the res for DVD's - I'll assume I'll use powerstrip and application profiles to do it and keep my res for fullscreen Dish network and such at 800x600. any help on input is appreciated - thanks for all your time!

 

[olyar15]

Keep the resolution at 800x600 - the native resolution of the projector. The software DVD player and the video card will scale the DVD to fit within that resolution, regardless of the aspect ratio of the movie.