19" widescreen or "normal"?

On or about Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:23:32 -0000 did "John"
<none.DeleteThis@needed.com> dribble thusly:

>My existing monitor is on its last legs and I'm looking at replacing it with
>a 19" LCD but.....
>
>I don't play games and I don't watch DVD movies on my PC so is there any
>advantage or benefit to spending a bit extra and getting a 19" widescreen
>monitor or am I just as well sticking to the "traditional" 19" 4:3 type
>monitors?

The two are not comparable.

For some maddening reason, widescreen displays continued the bizarre
trend of marketing display sizes based on a diagonal measurement.

So, a 19" 4:3 display is not the same size as a 19" 16:10 display.

What you want is either a 19" 4:3 display (which, at 1280x1024, will
actually be a 5:4 display), or a 22/23" 16:10 display.

They'll have the same screen height and vertical resolution, but the
widescreen display will have more horizontal pixels.

That means more screen real estate, which is the only reason you would
want a widescreen monitor, given what you don't do with your computer.

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- Mike

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