Freak'n Big Panda
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I'm in the market for a new (looking mainly @ 24" offerings) LCD and I've got a few questions..
A Playstation 2 will be hooked up by component so I'd like to know, how do wide screen displays typically deal with 4:3 content? is it stretched or is the aspect ratio maintained? And how do progressive displays (like any LCD I would be buying) deal with interlaced input?
Another question... is HDCP completely required? What exactly will I be stopped from doing if I do not own a HDCP compliant display? Is it simply Bluray and HDDVD playback that is impaired? If that's the case and nothing else will be affected I really don't care too much. I'm sure I'll be able to get unprotected versions of movies and whatnot if I feel the need.
I might also by hooking up a PS3 to this monitor at some point in the future, on that topic does it matter if I go with component and not HDMI? You can still do 1080P over component right?
Anyways if somebody could shed some light on this I'd appreciate it!
Thanks in Advance.
P.S. Some suggestions as to what LCDs I should consider buying would also be appreciated!
A Playstation 2 will be hooked up by component so I'd like to know, how do wide screen displays typically deal with 4:3 content? is it stretched or is the aspect ratio maintained? And how do progressive displays (like any LCD I would be buying) deal with interlaced input?
Another question... is HDCP completely required? What exactly will I be stopped from doing if I do not own a HDCP compliant display? Is it simply Bluray and HDDVD playback that is impaired? If that's the case and nothing else will be affected I really don't care too much. I'm sure I'll be able to get unprotected versions of movies and whatnot if I feel the need.
I might also by hooking up a PS3 to this monitor at some point in the future, on that topic does it matter if I go with component and not HDMI? You can still do 1080P over component right?
Anyways if somebody could shed some light on this I'd appreciate it!
Thanks in Advance.
P.S. Some suggestions as to what LCDs I should consider buying would also be appreciated!