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New Monitor
Hi there,
Hopefully I’m in the right place. So I’ve got a PowerMac G4 867Mhz, running OSX 10.4.11. An old machine, but it’s been good to me.
My flat screen monitor went out on me and I replaced it. Went to Best Buy, got myself a little Dell 19-inch “widescreen” monitor. That’s all you can get these days, I guess.
Well, everything’s hooked up fine, colors are brilliant, but I can’t undo the s t r e t c h. I’ve tried all the displays settings in Preferences. Clear picture, just too elongated.
I work with Final Cut Pro, this setting is “livable”, but is there any way to fix it?
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If this is the monitor you’re talking about….
…it seems to be a very strange animal indeed. Its aspect ratio is listed as 16:9 (and from the pictures, it looks to be that), but its native resolution is listed as 1440×900….which is 16:10. Meaning that if it is displaying things at 16×9, then it is squeezing the picture vertically, giving you that stretched look. This is a very odd configuration, and I can’t see why they would make a model like that. If this is indeed the case, I would return the monitor and opt for the slightly more expensive Dell 19″ (the silver one), which has the same 1440×900 native res, but the right kind of 16:10 screen ratio. A really odd choice for a design on that black one.
The one that’s listed on the Dell site…..
…says that it’s 16:10, and on that site it looks like it in the pictures, whereas the one on the Best Buy site looks narrower top-to-bottom and says that it’s 16:9. Really……strange.
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