Quote Originally Posted by 02audionoob
I checked the ViewSonic site and I see there are three resolutions supported by my model - 1360 x 768, 1280 x 768 and 1024 x 768. It looks like my belief that the LCD's VGA input didn't support HD resolution was wrong. I might try to figure out why it didn't work for me, but I suspect it was because my PC would have been set to an unsupported resolution so it kicked me back to the baseline VGA resolution.
That seem to be true with older version of windows. For example with my old win98 PC, if the monitor is not set to video's native resolution, it will not play the video. But with window7 PC, I am able to play any video resolution even if monitor does not match it.

Quote Originally Posted by audio amateur
However, if you're outptting a high resolution (1080p for example) youll need a good processor to keep up.
Basically, what you want (ideally) is a video card that will output 720 resolution (1280 by 720) and 1080 resolution (1920 by 1080).
I am guessing my video card can support HD since I have few videos on my hard drive (not porn ) that have 1280 x 720 and 1920 x 1080 resoution and it play them fine. I am surprise that my monitor can display 1080 format since monitor resolution does not have 1980 x 1080 resolution setting. I am guessing that Window7 resize the resolution for monitor setting.

Quote Originally Posted by pixelthis
And windows has provisions for changing icon size, etc. BASICALLY with a 1080p monitor you can watch anything, with a 720p you will be restricted to 720p.
Yes, that is one of disadvantages of going with 720p. I am figuring that since my cable was cutoff, probably feed HDTV from PC with downloded and streaming programs. Picture quality is pretty good with higher resolution videos.