The same pixel stream may be displayed on an internal display and an external display while maintaining the original aspect ratio corresponding to the internal display dimensions. A connector with limited number of pins may only support a two-wire display port interface to the external display, which may not provide enough bandwidth to transmit the full resolution image to the external display. To transmit the full resolution image, a color space conversion from RGB space to YCbCr color space may be performed. The Luma component may be transmitted at full resolution, while the chroma components may be scaled. Accordingly, there is no loss of image resolution, while some amount of color resolution may be lost. However, there is no need to retime frames within the system on chip (SOC), and the same pixel stream may be used as the basis for display on both the internal and the external display.