"Arfa Daily" wrote in message
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"Smitty Two" wrote in message
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unless you can find one that has been designed to have the
picture displayed in a different format, such as happens with the LCD
monitors that they use in airports, and in advertising displays now.

Huh? Can you elaborate a bit on that, Arfa?

Hi Smitty. Lots of the LCD monitors used in airports and train stations
etc, are used in a 'portrait' fashion, and often appear to be pretty
'standard' looking types, turned on their side. You also see them being
used as menu displays, alternated with advertising material, in restaurant
windows. I guess that whatever is driving them may well be producing a
picture that's rotated by 90 deg, rather than the drive being normal, and
rotation taking place in the display. Until you came up with this
question, I'd never really considered the 'mechanics' of how it was being
done.

Arfa

Good thought Arfa, but I've always assumed that the image was flipped on the
computer before it goes to the monitor. Otherwise you would have streching
problems unless you designed your video for being flipped this way and after
all of the trouble of doing that you could have just flipped the video.

Mike