Couple of Minimig questions

[Darrin]

From my experience with a couple of LCD monitors/TVs and my Plasma TV, native Amiga screen modes are scaled to the best of the monitor's ability to the maximum screen resolution.

Here's Elite on my EDTV Plasma (stretched):
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b134/darrin01311/SDC10256.jpg

Here's Boot-up:
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b134/darrin01311/SDC10188.jpg

Here's Alien Breed TA (stretched):
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b134/darrin01311/SDC10189.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b134/darrin01311/SDC10190.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b134/darrin01311/SDC10192.jpg

Here's Defender of the Crown on a HDTV LCD using "stretch"
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b134/darrin01311/100_1273s.jpg

Rodland (PAL) on an NTSC core with borders and no centering:
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b134/darrin01311/100_1269s.jpg

Trodlers (uncentered with borders):
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b134/darrin01311/100_1254s.jpg

Personally, I leave the smart stretching on (justify mode) and Workbench can always make maximum use of overscan.  The choice is yours as you can switch it on and off.

[Darrin]

Everblue wrote:
Darrin dont confuse TVs with Monitors. TFT/Plasma monitors have nice stretching options, smart, 4:3 and all that... but in my knowledge TFT widescreen monitors do not.

Fair point.  I never really thought about it as that HD LCD TV was meant to be used as a TV and a monitor.  If you're going for a large widescreen monitor then it makes sense to have it souble as a TV too.  :-)

[Darrin]

Don't worry about 4:3 and 5:4 - it's a square monitor and it just so happens that the 320x256 screen mode is exactly 1/4 the maximum resolution and so it will scale perfectly.