848x480 on Plasmas

When displaying 848x480 on 16:9 plasmas like the NEC PlasmaSync 50MP2, you need select "Wide2" for "RGB Select" in the Options menu. Otherwise the plasma will scale the image very poorly resulting in pixelation of curved and diagonal lines.

Plasmas such as the Hitachi CMP4203W do not have a similar mode. You can get an acceptable display by setting your VGA output to 848x600 (using a utility such as PowerStrip or if you have NVidia, the latest drivers let you create custom resolutions), and selecting the "Zoom2" mode. This does crop a little off the edges of the image, but it is the best alternative to the choppy pixels in the "Full" mode.