[nJm]

I'm helping a friend set up their iBook on their new Panasonic plasma, which has a resolution of 1024x768. We plugged the Plasma into the iBook with a VGA connector and it detected the resolution correctly although naturally it is stretching a 4:3 picture which means watching widescreen DVDs and quicktime movies are squished vertically .

I know that VLC lets you manually adjust the aspect ratio, and that will do for now, if I can work out which aspect ratio to force to get the right picture, but in the not too distant future he wants to replace the iBook with a Mac mini and use Frontrow.

Any and all advice is welcome. There must be heaps of people out there using a computer with a Plasma that uses a 1024x768 res?

[msuper69]

1024x768 is a 4:3 aspect ration. Widescreen video will be letterboxed at the top and bottom.

[nJm]

Exactly, hence my question...

how do other people with 1024x768 16:9 HD plasma displays get them to work with video content from a computer?

[msuper69]

Like I said, 1024x768 is a 4:3 aspect ratio, not 16:9 and certainly not HD. If the video is not displaying as I said previously, perhaps there is some setting on the monitor that forces a zoomed picture? It's not clear what your problem is from the way you've described it.

[Uncle Skeleton]

His problem is the pixels on the TV are rectangular, and he wants a way to make either the OS or Frontrow distort the screen to compensate. I don't know of one...