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1400x1050 resolution on Macbook Pro?
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<blockquote data-quote="SteveJY" data-source="post: 1629148" data-attributes="member: 340001"><p>Are you saying that your MBP does offer 1400x1050 as a resolution option on that monitor?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>SXGA+ is 1400x1050 4:3 ratio. You might be thinking of WSXGA+, which is 1680x1050 16:10. I know the alphabet soup of resolution names can get confusing, but they're all listed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_display_resolution" target="_blank">here on Wikipedia</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sorry, but it doesn't suggest that at all.</p><p></p><p>Your external monitor will still be displaying 1680x1050; it won't actually change resolution to match the presentation that's playing. Because the vertical resolution is the same, it won't even have to scale up the image, eliminating any quality loss.</p><p></p><p>If I run my 1400x1050 4:3 presentation on my Macbook's own retina display, or on my external 27" 16:9 monitor, it does exactly the same thing. The actual resolution of those displays isn't changing; they're still running at their native 2880x1800 and 2560x1440 resolutions. Keynote is simply scaling the presentation to fit, and drawing in black bars at the unused edges. Even when there's image scaling, this degrades quality far less than actually running the display itself at a non-native resolution.</p><p></p><p>None of this has anything to do with actually getting the projector to display its native resolution when connected to the MBP.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes, 1400x1050 SXGA+. With anything other than its native resolution there's a significant drop in the projection quality.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SteveJY, post: 1629148, member: 340001"] Are you saying that your MBP does offer 1400x1050 as a resolution option on that monitor? SXGA+ is 1400x1050 4:3 ratio. You might be thinking of WSXGA+, which is 1680x1050 16:10. I know the alphabet soup of resolution names can get confusing, but they're all listed [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_display_resolution"]here on Wikipedia[/URL]. Sorry, but it doesn't suggest that at all. Your external monitor will still be displaying 1680x1050; it won't actually change resolution to match the presentation that's playing. Because the vertical resolution is the same, it won't even have to scale up the image, eliminating any quality loss. If I run my 1400x1050 4:3 presentation on my Macbook's own retina display, or on my external 27" 16:9 monitor, it does exactly the same thing. The actual resolution of those displays isn't changing; they're still running at their native 2880x1800 and 2560x1440 resolutions. Keynote is simply scaling the presentation to fit, and drawing in black bars at the unused edges. Even when there's image scaling, this degrades quality far less than actually running the display itself at a non-native resolution. None of this has anything to do with actually getting the projector to display its native resolution when connected to the MBP. Yes, 1400x1050 SXGA+. With anything other than its native resolution there's a significant drop in the projection quality. [/QUOTE]
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