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My widescreen monitor does sometimes let me view pictures unstretched with black borders at the sides, but it does not have a 1:1 pixel-display mode for viewing things fullscreen, and to add insult to injury, it always blurs the stretched image regardless of whether or not I want it to blur. This takes some of the joy away from playing Retro-Games in fluuscreen-mode.

Some monitors come in two versions. A monitor-only version and a version with built in TV-Tuner and speakers. Perhaps you just got the wrong one. Can't you just connect your speakers to your soundcard?
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 20:59, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Don't have any speakers
The last monitor's were in-built. This one is going back and I'm not leaving until I get a full refund.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 20 Aug 2009, 21:10, Reply)

Any chance you could connect the sound-input from your old monitor to your soundcard?
That way, the monitor will be a glorified set of speakers.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 21:26, Reply)

I have absolutely no idea how to do that
*techno luddite*
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 20 Aug 2009, 21:29, Reply)

How do you normally connect the PC to the monitor?
Is it one cable for everything, or do you connect the sound-output to a separate monitor-input than the video?
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 21:54, Reply)