Planar M70L User Manual

Aspect Ratio Settings

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m70L Installation & Configuration Guide

The display is not capable of compressing the image in one direction while stretching 

it in the other. For example, if you try to display a UXGA (1600 x 1200) on an m70L (1920 x 
1080) at Fill All, the display will letterbox the image and the following note will appear at the 
bottom of the menu: “Can’t display - Change Scale Mode.” You can leave the scale mode at 
Fill All or change it to Letterbox. You can also select Crop or One to One.

The 

SCALE

 

MODE

 menu icons change to indicate the effect each mode will have on 

the picture based on the 

JUSTIFY

 and 

SCALE

 

MODE

 settings, and the source resolution.

4 x 3 source 
(e.g. Standard Video 
or VGA/SVGA/XGA)

16 x 9 source 
(e.g. 1080i or WXGA 
computer source) 

4 x 3 source 
(e.g. Standard Video, 
VGA/SVGA/XGA)

16 x 9 source
(e.g. 1080i or WXGA 
computer source)

Fill All

No distortion

Compresses width to fit

Stretches width of image

Displays full image 
without distortion 

 makes the picture fit top-to-bottom and left-to-right, regardless of how this stretches or compresses the picture. 

Fill All distorts the picture, when the aspect ratio of the incoming picture is not the same as the display.

Crop

No distortion

Crops width of image; 
fits height of image 
without distortion

Crops top and bottom of 
image; fits width of image 
without distortion

Displays full image 
without distortion 

 expands non-native aspect ratio pictures until the second edges touch the border and lets the other edges of the 

picture fall outside the display and get cropped.

Letterbox/
Pillarbox

No distortion

Fits width of image 
without distortion; fills 
height with border

Fits height of image 
without distortion; fills 
width with border

Displays full image 
without distortion 

 expands the picture until the first edges (top-bottom or left-right) touch the border of the 

display, and then fills in the other sides with a solid color.