I was planning on buying a 360 and a VGA HD AV cable to hook up to my monitor. It is an HP w19b, it is widescreen and it runs at 1440x990 max res. I have a couple of questions.1) When I play games, will my monitor give me black bars at the top or bottom?2) If it does, how can i fix it so that it would fill the whole screen?3) What is the max resolution that Halo 3 has?4) Will my monitor stretch out the games when I play them?5) Will the picture look different (in how it is stretched/unstretched) from a 40 INCH LCD FLAT PANEL WIDESCREEN 1080P HD TV?
1). Yes, but only because your monitor is 16:10 and not a true native 16:9. Just select 16:9 aspect ratio and the bars won't be visbile or very unnoticable (depends on monitor). I don't know if the game will automatically play at 720p, you might need to enable it in the dashboard. 2). All games support 16:9 480i, use that setting. It should play in 720p which is 3). Halo 3 supports 480i/480p and 720p (not 1080i) 4). Most games support 16:9 480i/480p or greater and the game resolution will be rendered in 16:9, your monitor might stretch it to 16:10 or just have very small black bars. 5). On a 19 monitor, 720p is very high resolution and the Xbox should not strech the aspect ratio of the image too much. It should look great because LCD monitors have much high pixel densities than LCD TVs. The Monitor might look slightly dim deending on the environment
1) No it does not because black bars only happen when you are running a wide screen activite on a normal screen system 2) Well if it does you can make only one big bar by adjusting the screen to where you see but never experience that on mine 3) 1920x1080p at least thats what my friend with the pimped out display says 4) it would look better really because it is more closer to each other and cant even try to split
