HDTV Tuner with a PC LCD Monitor?

I have a HDTV Tuner. Will it work with a 20" widescreen PC LCD Monitor
(1680x1050 pixel w/ DVI & VGA input)? Will the picture be streched to
fill up the screen? Or letter box?

Thanks!

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:08:39 -0800, soetji wrote:

I have a HDTV Tuner. Will it work with a 20" widescreen PC LCD Monitor
(1680x1050 pixel w/ DVI & VGA input)?

As long as it has a dvi or vga ouput or can use an apdapter.

Will the picture be streched to fill up the screen? Or letter box?

Depends on how you set it.

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Why don't you just plug it in and see what happens?

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I have a HDTV Tuner. Will it work with a 20" widescreen PC LCD Monitor
(1680x1050 pixel w/ DVI & VGA input)? Will the picture be streched to
fill up the screen? Or letter box?

Thanks!

On 21 Nov 2006 10:08:39 -0800, wrote:

I have a HDTV Tuner. Will it work with a 20" widescreen PC LCD Monitor
(1680x1050 pixel w/ DVI & VGA input)? Will the picture be streched to
fill up the screen? Or letter box?

Thanks!

If the DVI connection does not work it is because the tuner requires a
monitor with HDCP. My two LG monitors (L194WT and L204WT) will only
work at 720p and the image is slightly stretched vertically to fill
the whole screen.

Alotta Fagina wrote:

Will the picture be streched to
fill up the screen? Or letter box?

The HD tuner should have settings where you can tell it that you have a
widescreen display, and it will diplay in the proper aspect ratio.

It's not really the proper aspect ratio -- 1680:1050 is really 16:10,
and not 16:9 ... My HDTV receiver (tuner) does not have an option to
tell it that the TV is 16:10 ... I guess worst-case he might have to
live with a *slight* stretching...

Carlos
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