Hi, I have a 120 inch 16:9 huge screen, which I use at my home theatre room and we watch all Blu-Ray movies at 16:9 wide screen. At that time, the projector source is my Blu-Ray Player and amplifier through HDMI. I want do project the same 16:9 widescreen way from my Windows 8 PC. How do we do that ? As soon as I connect my PC and projector through a RGB cable, the screen resolution of the PC changes to square 4:3 resolution. Why is that ? And on the projector screen, then wide view is totally gone and I see the squarish view 4:3 view ? How do I get the complete 16:9 output to projector screen from a PC ? I also tried through HDMI and my Apple Macbook Retina, I still dont get the wide view.
Try changing the settings of the graphics card of your PC. Which one are you using? On board or a dedicated nvidia one? Also try to find out whether your graphics supports 16:9 wide screen resolution or not?
"Only" obviously means no other displays attached to the PC other than the projector RGB leads is probably the problem
If your PC does not have HDMI slot does it mean you are using a VGA cord to connect to your monitor? In such a case you can either buy a high end VGA cable that supports 1920x 1080p resolution or you can buy an HDMI connecting PCI Express card & connect your projector through one of these two. Either of these two should solve your problem. Take care.
This is new to me that a High-End VGA cable can support special kind of resolution. Guess this is out of the world of fantasy
VGA can support 1920x1080 easy, but you don't need a special type of high end cable cable - I can run 1080p from my laptops VGA port using a bog standard VGA cable that I found in the bottom of a draw, likely from a 1990s CRT monitor
No my friend PaulDesmond I do not wish to sound cynical about your comment but high end cables {Good quality cables in layman's term} are available that support 1920x1080 resolution. You just have to look for them at the right places.
They don't have to be good quality cables at all, the one I use is a crappy ancient one and displays 1080p fine
resolution of any kind of monitoring is not determined by using special kind of cable my friend. Resolution is made by drivers and video-hardware such as expensive cards plugged into a machine or some PCs which already come with a good quality on-board chip. Don't let you fool by so called high-end accessories without any value... period Some still believe that a gold plated RCA-plug sounds better than a standard connection .... lol .... guys wake up and don't let you fool by ignorant gangsters collecting your money
It wasn't my intention to mislead people in this forum but if you guys find my advice useless please do not pay any heed to it. But my other option of HDMI card in the PCI Express slot could have been tried, as I feel soamz's PC configuration is a tad weak to give him the desired results. I think it would be better if soamz could post the details of his PC configuration. No offense intended no offense taken, we all are here to help each other & not to make war. Thanks for enlightening my perspective too PaulDesmond.