Looking to the future, I am thinking about getting a plasma screen with a DVI input. However, looking at the specs for current machines they appear to have native resolutions which are (say) 1024x768 and other 4:3 type resolutions...
How do people handle widescreen formats on these types of devices? ie What happens when you watch a DVD through myth - does it get stretched too wide (everyone looks rather fat), or can we tell the DVD player that the device is actually widescreen (ie on a normal monitor everything is stretched upwards). Also what about other modules such as the myth pictures module, how do people get this to work on wide screen so that photos aren't distorted?
I realise that these sets normally have a button to choose 4:3 or 16:9 input, but doing this is going to mean that the plasma set has to re-sample the input signal and I would like to try and get maximum quality out and avoid this if possible.
Basic questions I know. Your thoughts would be appreciated.
How do people handle widescreen formats on these types of devices? ie What happens when you watch a DVD through myth - does it get stretched too wide (everyone looks rather fat), or can we tell the DVD player that the device is actually widescreen (ie on a normal monitor everything is stretched upwards). Also what about other modules such as the myth pictures module, how do people get this to work on wide screen so that photos aren't distorted?
I realise that these sets normally have a button to choose 4:3 or 16:9 input, but doing this is going to mean that the plasma set has to re-sample the input signal and I would like to try and get maximum quality out and avoid this if possible.
Basic questions I know. Your thoughts would be appreciated.