Are games/cards fine outputting at 1920x1080? Is there some skewing that happens? I know that widescreen LCDs for typical gaming is either 1680x1050 or 1920x1200. But the larger HDTVs are set to 1920x1080. This is just as wide but not as tall. Does this skew the image? Modern games can be set to this resolution? Thanks.
Modern games do not have a resolution of 1900x1200 unless your running a pc game. A console only supports up to 1900x1080. If your going to hook up a console to a monitor with that resolution, the monitor has to have the feature 1:1 pixel mapping. Otherwise the image will be stretched vertically. This explains a little better what 1:1 pixel mapping is. http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=256085&highlight=pixel+mapping
Most PC games these days do 1920x1080 fine. Consoles such as xbox 360 and ps3 output 1080. The 360 seems to do this more as a product of upscaling rather than true 1080p so a small amount of scaling/blurring is noticeable, but not by any means terrible. I have a Dell 24" LCD that is 1920x1200 but i play most, if not all games at 1920x1080 because I prefer the wider resolution and do not mind the small black bars. I use it for both my pc and my xbox360 and love it. When I find a decent LCD tv and have the cash for it I will definitely switch to that. 1920x1080 is great resolution for gaming. If your going to get a monitor that is 16:10 natively (1920x1200 or 1680x1050) make sure it has a 1:1 mode so you can use 16:9 resolutions (1920x1080) without scaling/stretching. Otherwise any HDTV that does TRUE 1080p would be fine. Notice i said TRUE 1080p. Some TV's claim to be 1080p but have upscaling or wierd refresh restrictions for running 1080p when using a PC. A certain 46inch Sharp Aquos model we had at our store before we closed is a good example of this. It claimed 1080p, but try to hook up a PC to it using dvi>hdmi and good luck getting 1080p without some wierd scanline issues and blurriness. The vga input worked fine for the resolution, but the colors were noticeably degraded. On the other hand we had a LG 47inch model that worked great via HDMI, but the contrast ratio on the TV was pretty poor so all the blacks looked blah.
