Standard screen resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixels. SXGA has a 5:4 aspect ratio. You should be aware that you need to think about screen aspect ratio if you plan to project SXGA computer graphics, wide-screen or HDTV video. The SXGA standard uses a 5:4 aspect ratio and wide-screen video a 16:9 ratio, while standard video, VGA, SVGA, XGA and UXGA use 4:3. Sharp's newest native SXGA projector, for example, gives you the ability to resize 4:3 formats to a 5:4 aspect ratio if you choose, thus making it possible to use a 5:4 screen for almost everything. Yes the image will be distorted, but the distortion is slight.

SXGA may provide your on-screen display with 87% more information than XGA projectors, SXGA+ is perfect for displaying a wide variety of content, from spreadsheets to highly detailed images.

SXGA+ is optimized for the growing high-resolution requirements of business, higher education, medical and military markets. With its astounding resolution you can project images from CAD, CAM, medical imaging, 3-D modeling and graphics. You can even project HD (high-definition) content.

SXGA Tablet: Located in XGA projector, the handling of compressed SXGA allows such projectors handled more than 1280 x 1024 pixel resolution. Most of the owners of XGA projectors that use compressed SXGA are users of workstations (SUN, SGI, IBM, etc.) The most common use for this type of work stations are medical, life sciences, engineering and some more .