Why widescreen on a computer monitor?

[JR]

I have had a 16:10 monitor on my computer due to a situation where I
got a very high end monitor for free many years ago. CRT based. I
have always had the monitor adjusted so there are black bars on the
left and right sides of the screen as fully expanded, the content
displayed was out of square. If I put a circle on the screen it would
look stretched and oval due to the wide aspect resolution. I now see
widescreen monitors all over and wondering why so many people want
them? I got a widescreen laptop monitor at work and hate it as it has
the same stretched look problem. I can understand having widescreen on
a TV, but do that many people watch their movies on their computer
monitor?

JR

 

[Yousuf Khan]

I have had a 16:10 monitor on my computer due to a situation where I
got a very high end monitor for free many years ago. CRT based. I
have always had the monitor adjusted so there are black bars on the
left and right sides of the screen as fully expanded, the content
displayed was out of square. If I put a circle on the screen it would
look stretched and oval due to the wide aspect resolution. I now see
widescreen monitors all over and wondering why so many people want
them? I got a widescreen laptop monitor at work and hate it as it has
the same stretched look problem. I can understand having widescreen on
a TV, but do that many people watch their movies on their computer
monitor?

You of course have to use the proper 16:10 resolution modes, otherwise
things will look stretched.

Yousuf Khan

 

[the dog from that film you saw]

I have had a 16:10 monitor on my computer due to a situation where I
got a very high end monitor for free many years ago. CRT based. I
have always had the monitor adjusted so there are black bars on the
left and right sides of the screen as fully expanded, the content
displayed was out of square. If I put a circle on the screen it would
look stretched and oval due to the wide aspect resolution. I now see
widescreen monitors all over and wondering why so many people want
them? I got a widescreen laptop monitor at work and hate it as it has
the same stretched look problem. I can understand having widescreen on
a TV, but do that many people watch their movies on their computer
monitor?

sounds like you've never bothered to set your pc to the correct resolution -
that way everything will be the correct shape.

 

[Art]

I have had a 16:10 monitor on my computer due to a situation where I
got a very high end monitor for free many years ago. CRT based. I
have always had the monitor adjusted so there are black bars on the
left and right sides of the screen as fully expanded, the content
displayed was out of square. If I put a circle on the screen it would
look stretched and oval due to the wide aspect resolution. I now see
widescreen monitors all over and wondering why so many people want
them? I got a widescreen laptop monitor at work and hate it as it has
the same stretched look problem. I can understand having widescreen on
a TV, but do that many people watch their movies on their computer
monitor?

JR

Have you set it up for 1280 x 800 resolution? Things shouldn't look
stretched then.

In answer to your question. I do. I'm on the road quite a bit and always
take a few movies with me. Watching TV in most hotels (for me) is like 7
channels of CNN, the Weather Channel, etc... The only thing that saves me
is my widescreen laptop and college football. I'm hoping for a Slingbox for
Christmas.

Art

 

[news.qwest.net]

Have you set it up for 1280 x 800 resolution? Things shouldn't look
stretched then.

In answer to your question. I do. I'm on the road quite a bit and always
take a few movies with me. Watching TV in most hotels (for me) is like 7
channels of CNN, the Weather Channel, etc... The only thing that saves me
is my widescreen laptop and college football. I'm hoping for a Slingbox
for Christmas.

Art

I just bought a Gateway FPD2185W TFT LCD monitor at a good price. I do a
lot of work with photography, video production and website design. I'm
delighted to be able to stack up my control panels for programs such as
Photoshop to the right side of my screen where they don't interfere with the
photos I'm editing. The same is true of the control modules for Dreamweaver
and other website design and graphics programs.

Linda R. Amar
Shelton, WA