# Pixels - have i got this wrong?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pixels-have-i-got-this-wrong/227585>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 31, 2007, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pixels-have-i-got-this-wrong/227585 "2007-05-31T14:34:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pup\_100](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/da6949/32.png) [@Pup\_100](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Pup_100)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pixels-have-i-got-this-wrong/227585/1 "2007-05-31T14:34:20Z")

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I was doing some work testing out how different monitor resolutions play on different size monitors.

A movie that i had set the stage at 1260x862 played as you might expect on my 17” (1280 x 1024) no over lap, no problem. The same movie on my 14” monitor using the same browser settings (1280 x 1024) needed scroll bars up & side?

I thought the whole idea of pixels is that they size up or down to fit the screen size of the monitor – how come they end up scaling up so large on my 14” that they need scroll bars?