Wall mounted jukebox screen size help

[normchorus]

(I also posted this in the main board)

Howdy. Alex here. It's been a long time since I've posted here. Happy
to see that the dream is still alive (and so is my MAME machine web site,
www.ysib.com/zoom ... eh, eh).

I recently happenstanced upon a free flatscreen lcd monitor. I've been waiting for this day for several years, because I knew that as soon as I scored a free lcd flatscreen monitor that I would build a wall-mounted mp3 jukebox to compliment my arcade machine.

So I built a really cool art deco-y shell for it which looks like an old timey transistor radio face, with knobs and the keywiz and the like. But my problem is this:

I don't want to cut a 17" hole in my design to fit the 17" flatscreen. I just want to utilize about 6" of screen and cut a 6" hole.

On all of my previous CRT monitors, there is an option on the actual monitor to shrink the picture size inside the screen - so that the image appears in miniature in the middle of the screen, and the entire perimeter is black. On my lcd flatscreen, I can't find such an option.

Is there a windows setting or program that will shrink the size of the screen?

thanks a lot you guys!!

By the way, I really like all the cool projects everyone is making.
What a creative community!

[ahofle]

LCDs of course don't work like CRTs in that you can't focus (shrink) the beam of electrons.  You may be able to try setting a lower resolution on the LCD monitor and tell it to not 'scale' the image (so it will only fill up the middle of the screen).  There should hopefully be an option like 'no scaling' in the LCD's on screen menu somewhere.

[normchorus]

Cool. I can't wait to get home and try that out.
Thanks!