S-video output from video card to TV (monitor is widescreen but TV isn't!)?

I'm using an nVidia card (FX5200 I believe) with S-Video output, with a converter to RCA plugged into a VCR. The problem is that the computer monitor is a widescreen (native resolution 1440x900), and I have it set up so both monitor and TV show the same thing (except when videos are playing on the monitor, it shows up full screen on the TV). But since the display is widescreen on both, there's a panning going on on the TV, where it can't show the entire desktop display all at once. Is there any way to force it to stretch width-wise or force letterboxes on the TV display? Can't find anything relevant in the nVidia control panel. Thanks and happy holidays!|||Unfortunately, it cannot be done.



A TV is limited to 1024x768 resolution with S-video. There is no way you can force it to display 1440x900 through S-video because 1) the S-video connection can't handle it, and 2) your TV probably can't handle it either if it's an old CRT set.



If you have a newer HDTV with HDMI or VGA ports, those are MUCH BETTER than S-Video for connecting to a computer, especially HDMI (which can be connected to a video card's DVI port with a DVI-to-HDMI cable, and can go all the way up to 1920x1080 as long as the TV can handle it).