Re: question about scalers

"Wes Newell" <w.newell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:52:39 +0000, Allen Watson wrote:
>
>> I've been looking at specifications for video scalers, but as far as I
>> can tell, they provide only the standard presets-- fine for upscaling
>> 480-line stuff to full-screen on a 720p or 1080p monitor.  I want
custom
>> settings that would let me, for example, display 480-line video on the
>> middle 480 lines of a 720p monitor.  Are there scalers that can do
that?
>
> Set your TV for a 1:1 aspect ratio. That will display it as is. IOW's,
if
> it's 640x480 and you have a 1366x768 display, it will occupy the center
> 640x480 pixels. It will be small, but it will be super clear.:-)
>
I think on my TV it is called 1:1 pixel mapping rather than aspect ratio, 
but something like that should work. Probably won't work with all inputs. 
Because of context sensitive menues, you are probably best off looking at 
the manual rather than using the hunt and peck method.

Tam

> I'm assuming all HDTV's have this setting since my inexpensive sets do.
>
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