Trying to fool a 15in to be a 12in.

[gravitypress]

Im trying to decrease the viewable size of my lcd monitor to believe it is a 12inch monitor. Any Ideas how to adjust the viewable size?

Thanks

[v1d9uy]

get a program called power strip .. it should allow you to resize the image on youre lcd

[jcbklyny]

You can do it with zoom player on the fly. Plus if you can run external software filters that will improve your image.




JCB
www.diybuildergroup.com

[kb18951452]

You also might try using the buttons on the front of the LCD. (just thought i might add it, even though it is pretty simple of an answer.

[milihpen]

gravitypress:

To build off of what v1d9uy said, I use powerstrip as well when I want to limit it. However, my Dell automatically resizes the image to fit the entire screen. The solution in powerstrip is to go display-configure display-advanced timing options-custom resolutions. In this window, set the "new resolution" active pixels to your monitors native (or optimum) display resolution. click the add new resolution and follow the prompts for your monitor to refresh. then mark the "lock total geometry" button towards the bottom of the screen, and type in new values in the "active pixels" area (the new values should be less than what they are now) for instance, if your first resolution set is 1024*768, then your new resolution should maybe be somewhere in the 900's, or maybe 800*600. after that's done, click the "add new resolution" button, and you should end up with a properly shrunk image.

[gravitypress]

Thanks for the input. I will try these methods and see if they help.

[007]

I am want to use a 1000:1 contrast 17 inch monitor on my 11.25x11.25, 7300 lumen elmo overhead projector. The problem i am facing are as follows-

1) I have an intel video card and i have read that intel video cards are not supported for custom resolutions.

2) Even if it is supported, would i able to watch tv on it using a stand alone tv tuner box.

Is there any hope??

[Gadgethead]

I use Media Player Classic and it allows for resizing of the image on the fly and works perfect with my PJ! Plus it has a lot of controls. It also comes with a healthy amount of codecs that allows a few of my DVD's to play better with a audio leveling problem I had. And it's free!

Chris B. in Iowa

[milihpen]

007:
I don't know about whether or not Intel integrated chips are supported in Powerstrip, but it wouldn't hurt to try. If it doesn't work, you could do what Gadgethead suggested (although your desktop and all would still be too large, and you wouldn't be able to see it all). If I were you, and the intel chips didn't work, I'd go out and buy a new graphics card. You can get a real decent one for $80 these days, sometimes even as low as $50.