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I've been searching everywhere for answers surrounding the 16:10 versus 16:9 aspect ratio question, and after a home test setup, wanted to pass along my findings. I'm also not an A/V expert (although I'm learning) so this may be redundant for those more involved in setting these up. For reference, I'm using an Optoma ZH406ST 4k projector which is the commercial version of the the Optoma GT1090HDR and has the exact same specs.
The Optoma projector comes in a 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio. That means that if you feed it an HDMI signal, it'll output one of those two options. But what if you want 16:10? That's where the settings on your computer come in. Changing your computer display settings from 1920 x 1080 (16:9) to a 1680 x 1050 (16:10) ratio output will give you a 16:10 screen size. While that answered my golf simulator question, it didn't answer the question of what happens if I switch between 16:10 and 16:9 for Xbox/movies/etc....?
I set up the projector in a different room (simulator isn't finished yet) and started testing scenarios. Picture #1 is the computer at a 1920 x 1080 resolution (16:9) with blue tape on the corners for reference, Picture #2 is an XBox using its native resolution of 16:9 and Picture #3 is the computer modified to show 1680 x 1050 (16:10). As you can see, moving to 16:10 makes the change by pulling in the width as the third image is pulled in from the tape. If you wanted to move from using your simulator on your PC at a 16:10 ratio to a Blu-Ray player with a 16:9 ratio for the same screen width, it'd require physically sliding the projector to adjust. This has inclined me to take a slightly lower image height on 16:9 in order to keep the room friendly to everything else the family plans on using it for.
Final note....my understanding is that TGC2019 supports 16:10 resolution (it should if the computer outputs it) but that'd be the last piece of the puzzle. Let me know below if you found this helpful or if I'm the only one who was looking for clarity on this question. Thanks!
The Optoma projector comes in a 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio. That means that if you feed it an HDMI signal, it'll output one of those two options. But what if you want 16:10? That's where the settings on your computer come in. Changing your computer display settings from 1920 x 1080 (16:9) to a 1680 x 1050 (16:10) ratio output will give you a 16:10 screen size. While that answered my golf simulator question, it didn't answer the question of what happens if I switch between 16:10 and 16:9 for Xbox/movies/etc....?
I set up the projector in a different room (simulator isn't finished yet) and started testing scenarios. Picture #1 is the computer at a 1920 x 1080 resolution (16:9) with blue tape on the corners for reference, Picture #2 is an XBox using its native resolution of 16:9 and Picture #3 is the computer modified to show 1680 x 1050 (16:10). As you can see, moving to 16:10 makes the change by pulling in the width as the third image is pulled in from the tape. If you wanted to move from using your simulator on your PC at a 16:10 ratio to a Blu-Ray player with a 16:9 ratio for the same screen width, it'd require physically sliding the projector to adjust. This has inclined me to take a slightly lower image height on 16:9 in order to keep the room friendly to everything else the family plans on using it for.
Final note....my understanding is that TGC2019 supports 16:10 resolution (it should if the computer outputs it) but that'd be the last piece of the puzzle. Let me know below if you found this helpful or if I'm the only one who was looking for clarity on this question. Thanks!
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