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800x600 is fine for gaming as long as you have a real man's graphics card that handles supersampling properly. CSS doesn't look significantly different on my 32" 1366x768 display, except in the horizontal direction obviously. The difference between 600 and 768 is neither here nor there really. And yes. That projector has a native resolution of 800x600. It's pointless sending it anything higher as it just has to downscale it again. 
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I disagree slippy. 800x600 is a lot different to 1366x768, over twice as many pixels infact!
While 768 isn't a lot over 600 the extra width makes a massive difference.
Super Sampling is great I agree, but Super Sampling your distant enemy that could take up only 20 pixels isn't adding much quality, you need resolution.
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Do the maths, Speds...
768/600=1.28, so a distant object that was, say, 4 pixels tall on 800x600 becomes roughly 5 pixels tall at 1366x768. It's a very small difference.
If the game scales properly to 4:3 for 800x600 and 16:9 for 1366x768, then you only gain in terms of resolution by the same amount in the X direction as well. The field of view is obviously much wider, but the increase in resolution is still the same for both X and Y because the pixels are still square.
As far as mapping objects to the screen with the correct 1:1 aspect ratio goes, 800x600 still gives you roughly 80% of the resolution in both directions when compared to 1366x768.
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There is only one way to decide that, play your favourite game at 800x600 and at 1366x768 on your current screen and see what you think. I stopped playing Crysis at 800x600 on my projector and played at 1280x720 on the CRT instead because it was better and not just because of contrast etc.
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I have tried various games on both, and the DLP projector wipes the floor with any LCD monitor I've ever seen despite being very old in terms of hours and fit for the knacker's yard.
I'd go back to the projector any day personally if I could afford to feed it with lamps, run it and keep fixing it. DLP is still light-years ahead of LCD/TFT for realism and all of my games have now gone from being very real-worldy and immersive to just being cheap looking cartoons by comparison.
LCD can't match a DLP projector for genuine contrast ratio, linearity of luminance reproduction, colour accuracy or response time. It's a technical impossibility when you look at the way LCD works. I do like my 32" AOC, but it's a very different kind of "like", and it's taking my eyes and brain a very long time to get used to its deficiencies when compared to DLP.
Cheers, Slipstreem.
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"Phoenix" / "The '43' Special" - 1.8GHz Intel C2D E4300 overclocked to 2.83GHz with ACF7Pro HSF on Volt-modded ASRock 775Dual-VSTA mobo (modded BIOS rev 3.10A, VNB=1.65, Vagp=1.8), 1GB Vitesta DDR500 RAM (2.5,3,3,7,1T @ DDR472MHz), Jetway ATI X1950Pro 256MB GDDR3 PCIe graphics card with modded AC Accelero X2 cooler dynamically overclocked to 650MHz GPU & 1.5GHz RAM. Powered by Hiper Type-M 580W PSU. Guess who likes overclocking on a budget.
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Fun MPEG-4 Encoding Race
MPEG-4 Playback Enhancement Using FFDShow
How good is the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro HSF really?
Boosting ATI Framerates with CCC (X700 on)
Optimise ATI Image Quality And Framerates With ATT (X1XXX Series under WinXP)
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