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I have a screen that is capable of 1920x1080, but can go well beyond that?

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Yes, what you're saying is true for CPUs, GPUs, floppy drives etc but it would be quite different for LCD panels for at least three reasons that I can think of the top of my head.

1 Selling a monitor as having a 1440x900 resolution, but with the panel really being 1920x1080, a 1440x900 picture is going to either be shown smaller than the size of the panel for a 1:1 pixel mapping or will be stretched to fit and look awful

2 The monitor's panel driver electronics have to be designed for the display resolution and the higher the resolution, of course, the more expensive this gets

3 A defective 1080p panel cannot be sold as a lower resolution one since one would see visible defects on the screen, so there's no cost saving to manufacture
I understand what you are saying but I'm not sure any of those facts are set in stone. You obviously cannot take a smaller defective panel and put it in a larger monitor bezel and call it good. But the other way around may be possible and a cheaper process than throwing the defective panels in the trash starting fresh every time.

Drivers can be rewritten.

As far as visible defects, that would certainly depend on the extent of the defects. They would have to be minor. Certainly, using this tactic would not be possible with every defective panel coming off the line. But it could reduce the losses.

And for sure, there would have to be some modification and/or recoding process done. They could not just pop a different panel in and be done.

I am not saying you are wrong because I don't have any personal knowledge on the manufacturing process for monitors like I do with some other products. But I am saying with raw panels, "some" that don't pass the most stringent tests may be able to be cost-effectively modified to be re-purposed in lessor models rather than be a total loss.

That said, my reasoning really boils down to the fact I can come up with no other logical explanation for R-T-B's discovery - other than what I know to happen with all sorts of other products in many industries. I mean it is not likely it was just a matter of mislabeling and accidently dropping the wrong panel in for the very reasons you stated.
 
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If you have a newer Nvidia Graphics Card. Nvidia DSR might work for you. that allows my screen with a native resolution of 1920 x 1200 to twice that resolution if i want to.
Cant say how it will on a tv.

 
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I understand what you are saying but I'm not sure any of those facts are set in stone. You obviously cannot take a smaller defective panel and put it in a larger monitor bezel and call it good. But the other way around may be possible and a cheaper process than throwing the defective panels in the trash starting fresh every time.

Drivers can be rewritten.

As far as visible defects, that would certainly depend on the extent of the defects. They would have to be minor. Certainly, using this tactic would not be possible with every defective panel coming off the line. But it could reduce the losses.

And for sure, there would have to be some modification and/or recoding process done. They could not just pop a different panel in and be done.

I am not saying you are wrong because I don't have any personal knowledge on the manufacturing process for monitors like I do with some other products. But I am saying with raw panels, "some" that don't pass the most stringent tests may be able to be cost-effectively modified to be re-purposed in lessor models rather than be a total loss.

That said, my reasoning really boils down to the fact I can come up with no other logical explanation for R-T-B's discovery - other than what I know to happen with all sorts of other products in many industries. I mean it is not likely it was just a matter of mislabeling and accidently dropping the wrong panel in for the very reasons you stated.

It's also possible it's a very strange fluke. I have seen China do stranger things at times.
 

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Image Scaling ≠ True resolution.
Anyone and everyone that has a monitor can set the resolution higher than native resolution but it does not mean that your monitor can show the true image at the resolution u set for it. If that were the case I will still be rocking on my 2006 17" samsung syncmaster 740n
 

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just had a thought - the wording varies between monitors, but find and adjust your aspect ratio/scaling option on the TV to see how this behaves.


Run the 1:1/Just scan (samsung)/full (sony) view modes and see if behaviour changes.

If you run below the native res of the panel, the image should shrink and give you black borders on the screen. Keep going up until you get a perfect fit, thats your native res. Anything above that that goes 'outside' the screen is the scaler accepting higher res than the panel supports, and if the fit stays the same its shrinking what you're sending.
 

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You can put sprinkles and flowers on a piece of poo to make it look nice but it's poo any way you look at it. Raising the resolution DOES NOT increase the pixels being put out. I would know this since I've done this with so many different monitors and tvs to get the same exact thing on each one.
 
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