<span class="q">Alex Brekken wrote:<br><br>>> Thanks guys, that helps. I didn't see any EDID information - I'm<br>>> wondering if this is because I'm using the VGA input instead of DVI.....<br>>> Also, when playing back SDTV, it doesn't quite scale to full screen -
<br>>> it's letterboxed on the sides, in 4:3 format. I had just assumed that<br>>> this was normal since I was viewing 4:3 material on a 16:9 screen.<br>>> Maybe not?<br><br></span>>Some VGA cables block the EDID query. Some of these are the extremely
<br>>expensive ones, too, so it's not a quality thing--just a design thing.<br>>Got any other VGA cables?<br><br>I'm just using a cheap Belkin VGA cable. I was actually planning to get a decent one, but neither Best Buy nor CompUSA had anything better than the one I got. But regardless, even if I was able to get EDID information, would it matter? I know I've seen other emails to the list where people claimed that modelines were unnecessary with VGA input...
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