I sent an email to the BenQ support people asking the following:

If I feed a 1080i or 1080p signal into this monitor via component or DVI, say from a HDV Camcorder or from a HD-DVD Player, the signal sent from the device will be 1920x1080. A ratio of 16x9.

This monitor however, is 1080x1200, a ratio of 16x10. I want to know whether the signal that I input will be displayed correctly at 16x9, with black bars at the top and bottom of the screen, or whether the image will be stretched to fill the screen.

The product site specifies that the 16x10 display means that there will be no image distortion, but I forsee it as being exactly the opposite, since no video footage is ever shot in 16x10.

Thank you for your help,
-- John.

And their reply:

According to our product specialist there is a firmware update being released in December that will resolve the issue you are asking about.
Regards
BenQ Technical Support




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