Hi Guys,One of the things I find limiting about FS9 is the tunnel visionsyndrome. VC's help but the view still seems restrictive of the periphial view like wearing blinders.It would be great if FSX was widescreen to increase the immersion factor. Just my thoughts.Mark

I agree. Add 16:9 resolutions to the display settings. Widescreen is coming, and it's gaining more popularity. I don't know how difficult it is to add, but I feel it'd be worth it!And comments on whether or not it will be supported? I need to buy a monitor soon! (I'm waiting on the other hardware until Vista ships. I need DX10).

ummm...did you guys see that screen Bill Gates used on the demo at CES? I would love to know where to get that at and what the cost of it is?

We used 3 projectors backstage. I think they cost about $250,000 each.

"We used 3 projectors backstage. I think they cost about $250,000 each."-----------Hmm, I must stop buying payware for a while to save up hehe

I've got at Panazonic AE700U that does 720P in my basement Home Theater. I can hook it up TODAY to my Radeon 9800PROInterperet as you will...So far I've only wathced TV (HD FOotball) and DVD's there. HOwever I can see that for FSX, my PC might make way to the basement and run dual monitor :) the Panny for the out-the-window, and a traditional monitor for the 2d panels.I tingle at the thought.....My next PC will be dual core- as that's all tha'll really be out then, at least at the procepoint's ill look at, with who knows for video. 2 cards for sure, maybe SLI, but who knows?I have 9+months to figure it out :)Tim

This is what I'm most hoping for with FSX. Currently I am using a 23" widescreen Benq and at times I feel as well that FS hasn't yet taken widescreen into consideration.Until recently I always viewed any thoughts of FS moving to the XBox platform as possibly the end of flightsimming. However, now that I have the XBOX 360 and see first hand just how gorgeous FS could be in High Definition, I'm seeing things alot differently. I'm at least hoping that HD capability is an option somehow. The possibilities are promising with the future of FSX, Vista, Vista Media Center and XBox 360.Steve

I may be missing something here but FS9 already supports widescreen. It can run at any resolution and aspect ratio that your windows desktop can be set to.I've got a Parhelia graphics card running 3 LCDs and FS9 streches over all of them. The total resolution is 3072x768 - That's an aspect ratio of 4:1 which is far more than a widescreen TV.Paul

With 90%+ of customers not having multi monitor setups of wide screens that's not an option.

A few months back I tried a pc to TV hdtv device connected to my ATI X800XT and in no way could I say it looked as good as the xbox 360 does on my 65" HDTV. I wish I new of a better way. I know that projectors also have a few issues that are a problem for me.Maybe not alot of people have widescreen monitors and tv's at this point but this statistic is changing rapidly. I'm shocked when I see folks still using crt's. LCD monitors and HDTV's have dropped drasticly in price and sales are soaring recently. That 23" monitor I bought 8 months ago is now half the price. I believe that Windows Vista with it's included Media Center and x360's extender capability will change the way we all use this hardware. Doesn't FSX have to change with it as well ?Steve

>A few months back I tried a pc to TV hdtv device connected to>my ATI X800XT and in no way could I say it looked as good as>the xbox 360 does on my 65" HDTV. I wish I new of a better>way. I know that projectors also have a few issues that are a>problem for me.What kind of cable / connector did you use to connect your X800XT to the TV? S-Video? Composite? VGA? DVI?If you used anything other than a digital connection and had your desktop / FS9 resolution at something less than the HDTV resolution your TV supports (there are a few different HDTV standards out there), your results were no doubt not what you expected.Remember, S-video and composite are old tech and degrade the signal quality considerably. VGA is usually a bit better, but it's still an analogue signal. What you really want to use is the DVI out on your X800XT. If your HDTV does not accept DVI input, you'll likely need a DVI-HDMI converter. If your HDTV does not accept HDMI input (or any digital input that can be used to connect it to a computer), then you've gone and bought a bad TV.And as I noted, resolution also plays a part in all this: you'll want to match your computer's resolution to the TV's resolution. If your HDTV uses a resolution of 1920x1080 (one of the HDTV resolutions used, depends on where you live), for example, using anything less than that on your computer is not going to give you the best possible image quality; simply because the TV will then have to stretch the image to fit.

What he said...but also the source you're using must support that resolution, and I can't think of many pc games that do, even if your video card does(and it should), whereas your xbox 360 games were(or should have been) coded to work at that setting.If you were using a seperate docoder box connecting your video card to the tv than that's also something that will degrade the picture. IIRC all 800xt's have a digital output. If you tv won't connect to the one that's there, ATI sells the adapter for it that connects with what look like three RCA plugs to the TV, that should fix you up....Seems there's a prob with the ATI resolution limits for tv...reading through the manual for the pcie 800 they limit an svideo connection to 1024x768 and a similar limit it seems for the hdtv adapter and of course 480p/480i for DVD. This could be a software problem that gets fixed, but I don't know

A 19" TFT costs about a thousand Euro. A 21" CRT can be had for under half that.A 19" widescreen TFT costs several times more than that.CRTs work well, are cheap, and last long. They're also faster than TFTs and more accurate in their colour reproduction.

~1000 euros for a 19" TFT? And here I was thinking Finland is an expensive country! :D Over here 19" gaming TFTs (8-16ms) start at below 300 euros. Sure, most of the cheaper ones only offer VGA connection, but a quick glance at one of our local retailers showed that for about 350 euros you can get a 1280x1024, 8ms TFT with both DVI and VGA.The only 19" TFTs costing more than 1000 euros are professional (photography, digital art) models from Eizo and LaCie, the most expensive one in this case being about 1500 euros. The cheapest "Pro" Eizo (19") is about 680 euros.If you had 1000 euros to spend on a TFT screen over here, you'd be looking at 20-21 inch screens .. not 19.In fact, a newer version of the 20.1" LG I have costs "only" about 650 euros. That's 50% of the cost of the one I bought two and a half years ago.

Those pro ones are the only ones offering high enough performance to consider as a replacement for a CRT when you're thinking of animation and photo processing (which is what most of us will mainly use them for).The cheap ones are good enough for office use and web browsing, not much more.They have indeed come down a lot though (I can well remember testing a series of