I bought a HD card. Does our current monitors support HD or do you need something special?

I bought a Sapphire HD2600 Pro AGP graphics card. I have a Sony Trinitron Monitor that can host 2200x1800 ( NOt exact but close to it i'm not on it to check right now) DPI.

Now i know 1080 is the DPI for HD. So will i be able to run things in HD mode on this 19" Monitor i have? or do i have to buy LCD for the HD part?

Could you please help me with information on this so i understand it better.

Thanks.

The monitor is a larger monitor. The gaming kind. Not a flat LCD.

Your current monitor is not widescreen (16:9), while HD resolutions are. Full 1080p resolution is 1920x1080, so you obviously have more than enough pixels to theoretically display 1080p HD material. Your question isn't that clear on what source you want to play. Your graphics card can output at up to 2560x1600, so should be able to run at 2200x1800, just whack the resolution slider all the way up and see what happens. This will be a better resolution than full HD, though if you try to play HD content from satellite/cable/HD-DVD/blu-ray then you may come across problems as they can be very picky.

I think you may be a bit confused on what HD actually is. There isn't really such a thing as HD games, not on a PC. You can run a game at 1920x1080 if your monitor and graphics card support it (though the higher the resolution, the lower the framerate, hence why people with big displays have expensive graphics cards; to push all those pixels).
Regarding films, you are normally limited by the quality of the source (unless you use ffdshow or similar to upscale), so changing the graphics card, monitor or resolution will make no difference for divx/xvid/DVD films.
Any game you play will run at 4:3 ratio, there will be no black bars at the top and bottom.

most LCD s today support all types of HD cards,provided u vave a suitable driver. u can get free drivers frum (drivers.com)