I've notice alot of advertizing lately involving the widescreen TV's that can also be used as monitors. If I were to purchase say a 24" wide tv/monitor and run the PMDG or LDS software on it, would you get the whole widescreen video output on the wide-screen or would you only get a 'boxed' view of the simulation with the sides blanked out??And also, would you be able to read the gauges since the resolution is something like 1268x768 or something to that number??Regards,jack

you will (normally) be able to set the ratio, so if you take a widescreen and configure your videocard right, it should display perfectly.But one downside: the resolution...Unless you buy one of those (really) expensive HD-TV's, you'll have a resolution of 648 x 486 (NTSC) or resolution 720 x 486 (PAL) (that's for 4:3 tv's, widescreen have different resolutions of course, but still very low)

I've got Parhelia 3-monitor card at home and you do get a very wide screen resolution you can select with that. Question is if a normal video card could give you that. So I'd say you'll need a special video card or you'll get the box you're talking about.If you do get the wide resolution with a card this would be a nice looking setup. You'll have a very wide outside view (like I got) and for panels .. the option is in FS to "stretch" panels with window size so .. you'll get big oval gauges ! unless you turn that off. But then again you could make your own panel setup with your own background so that it matches your resolution. You could have the left MIP and the center MIP on 1 screen without shifting the gauges closer together than they are in real ! Should be fun :D