# Designing for a plasma screen **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [September 8, 2004, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designing-for-a-plasma-screen/63635 "2004-09-08T17:31:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kmax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@kmax](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kmax)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designing-for-a-plasma-screen/63635/1 "2004-09-08T17:31:34Z")
Hello, I have been asked to design something that is going to display on a plasma tv… the thing is the screen is rectangular… I guess all you have to do is try to find the ratio between the size of the screen… and the size of your stage in flash… I guess I will just test different stage width and heights in flash until I find one that works… Anyone ever done anything like this before? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designing-for-a-plasma-screen/63635/2 "2004-09-08T17:59:35Z")
I assume your talking about widescreen aspect ratio? this is 16:9, conventional NTSC is 4:3. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 6:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designing-for-a-plasma-screen/63635/3 "2004-09-08T18:03:34Z")
Yes… it is a wide screen… a rectangle… So I just need to make sure the flash stage is 16 wide… and 9 height of whatever the size of the wide screen is… should not be to hard… Thank you so much! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 6:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designing-for-a-plasma-screen/63635/4 "2004-09-08T18:41:55Z")
AE has a very nice preset ratio log for the stage settings. If you have AE… Although it would depend on what you were going to use the effect or project for I guess. Nevermind… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 7:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designing-for-a-plasma-screen/63635/5 "2004-09-08T19:18:55Z")
If you have tv out on your computer you could always give it a test run on a home tv or even the plasma screen if you have access. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designing-for-a-plasma-screen/63635/6 "2004-09-08T19:25:32Z")
yea in the end it is going to go out of a tv out card on a pc… into a wide plasma screen tv… once i get access to the tv i guess all i have to do is play around with it until I get it set right… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designing-for-a-plasma-screen/63635/7 "2004-09-08T20:08:10Z")
why woul you use a tv card if a plasma screen has a vga port all you need is a vga wire with both ends the same as the one you connect to your vga card from your monitor, as for dimensions its all relative i designed a flash presentation ran it on a plasma at 800x600 res on the pc and it looked great oh and it was running at fullscreen. Best option is to run a few tests before you start 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designing-for-a-plasma-screen/63635/8 "2004-09-08T20:15:13Z")
wow. thanks… I have not actually seen one of the tv’s yet… So if it does have a vga connection on it that would be awesome. Thanks!