Re: still no way to do custom aspect ratios?

I don't know if you will ever be able to get MediaCenter to be able to handle a display without square pixels especially for TV since the NTSC and ATSC TV standards also assume square pixels.
What make/model video card are you using and what driver release are you using for it.
<chimpathetic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:9ad5dab1-87bd-45e9-8eb5-dd0337c0bbf4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I don't think you fully understood my posts. The problem is not in
being able to pick resolutions. The problem is in that Media Center
does not seem to know how to handle rectangular pixel displays.


On Feb 22, 1:43 pm, "jolt" <ergoac...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Your best option would be to try powerstrip.

http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/ps.shtm

The chance you'll find a solution to display all your media without bars or
overscan on a monitor that uses a 4:3 resolution on a 16:9 monitor doesn't
seem extremely promising. Support for ED HDTV ready monitors needs to be in
the video card drivers to work well.

<chimpathe...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

news:79fbe92f-5a62-4595-9afb-9ea34046f7ee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> I've searched and searched the web and newsgroups and it looks like
> I'm SOL. I have Vista and MCE hooked up to my Pioneer 4280 TV. The
> problem is that, like several other displays on the market, it's 16:9
> and yet 1024x768.

> I want to run it in native 1024x768 to prevent going through two
> different rescales and the loss of quality. I can do this in various
> media players by telling it what aspect ratio my display is. I can
> even do it in Windows Media Player. Yet MCE seems to have no
> understanding of this concept.

> When run at 1024x768, it squishes the picture vertically, leaving
> black bars on the top and bottom. The pre-set aspect ratio #3 will
> made and HD signal picture fill the screen without any apparent
> cropping or stretching. But on SD signals, the pictures are stretched
> horizontally to fill the screen on ALL aspect ratios. So that's a
> problem, but it's also a problem that I can't actually use any of the
> different aspect ratio modes for their intended purpose (zooming in on
> letterboxed stuff, progressive stretching of SD, etc.).

> So, am I missing something, or is it really and truly just not
> supported? Yes, I could run my computer at 1360x768 and let my tv
> rescale it back to 1024x768. But when I do that, you can tell that
> the HD signal loses some of it's eye-popping quality. It's also an
> issue with some PAL mpegs I have from England. In other media
> players, I have a preset aspect ratio fixer for them that I can just
> engage by pressing a button. But with MCE I'm just out of luck.

> I'm going to have to ditch Media Center if this issue cannot be
> solved. And that's a shame because I think it is otherwise very cool
> software and was a selling point for the PC I bought.

> I'm actually fairly resigned that I'm going to have to do that. But I
> guess if there was some place to complain where someone from Microsoft
> would actually see this, it might help. Probably not, but who knows.
> The sad part is that Windows Media Player supports changing the aspect
> ratio to a custom setting!

> Any help is appreciated.

> --
> Jason


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