Not all computer video cards support changing your monitor's screen orientation from horizontal to vertical, though.

Any horizontal lines drawn on the screen though were stretched out - so if I had a window taking up a portion of the screen, a shadow of it would stretch all the way across the screen.<P>Obviously ...

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The vertical resolution (number of horizontal lines) on a TV or computer screen. The term typically is used with TVs; for example, HDTVs have 720 or 1,080 lines, while analog TVs used 525 or 625 ...