Even I consider this a stupid question ... and I'm the one asking it.
Work just issued me a beautiful new Dell Latitude D420 widescreen ultraportable notebook (nice review & pics here). I love it. It has the same footprint as a sheet of paper (8.5 * 11) and is just about exactly 1" thick. Contains a WXGA (800 x 1280) widescreen TFT LCD display.
Optical drive is external and is a DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive. The other day while in-flight, I tried to play a std widescreen DVD on the unit using the included InterVideo Win DVD software. I could NOT find any way to stretch the [anamorphic] video to fill the width of the screen. The image was letterboxed and windowboxed at the same time (i.e. black all around). There was no readily apparent setting in either the laptop display settings or DVD Software menu to alllow me to reconfigure the viewing window.
Has anyone else dealt with a similar issue on a widescreen laptop. I Know there is a fix or else 90% of widescreen laptop owners would be screaming. What am I overlooking? HELP?
Scott
Work just issued me a beautiful new Dell Latitude D420 widescreen ultraportable notebook (nice review & pics here). I love it. It has the same footprint as a sheet of paper (8.5 * 11) and is just about exactly 1" thick. Contains a WXGA (800 x 1280) widescreen TFT LCD display.
Optical drive is external and is a DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive. The other day while in-flight, I tried to play a std widescreen DVD on the unit using the included InterVideo Win DVD software. I could NOT find any way to stretch the [anamorphic] video to fill the width of the screen. The image was letterboxed and windowboxed at the same time (i.e. black all around). There was no readily apparent setting in either the laptop display settings or DVD Software menu to alllow me to reconfigure the viewing window.
Has anyone else dealt with a similar issue on a widescreen laptop. I Know there is a fix or else 90% of widescreen laptop owners would be screaming. What am I overlooking? HELP?
Scott
