[Overpaid Slacker]

So I bought a couple of monitors this week.

For the "old" computer, I bought an LG 19" that's very impressive, frankly. On sale at Best Buy for ~$200 and a sweet little monitor.

For the GodBox I bought the Dell 2407WFP. Couldn't bring myself to spend almost double on the 2707... (Alfa to restore... Alfa to restore...). And the 30" would have been ridiculous. But cool.... OK, enough. I bought the 24"

The 24" is, frankly, the cat's a$$! Tons of real estate, gorgeous fidelity, etc. All that and a bag of designer chips. Any larger, and I'd have to sit further away.

But.

I'm familiarizing myself with what are apparently the inherent limitations of widescreen (and, I guess, all LCD) monitors and their "native resolutions".

Is there a way to "force" video to be played in a window at (or near) its native resolution, while keeping the rest of the screen at its own res? I'm probably not asking that question the right way.

What DVD playing software works the "best" for scaling/display at the best resolutions?

I need to be edumacated.

Thanks in advance.

JP