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New screen for my PC: widescreen vs normal?

post #1 of 23
10/11/09 at 8:25am
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Ok, my old 19" CRT is starting to degrade.
After coming to the conclusion that new CRT screens are scarce these days i got (finaly ) convinced to go TFT now.
I am trying to decide whether to got widescreen 22" or stay at normal 19".
Does anyone have experience with widescreen in games?
Any downside to going widescreen?
Is HD support worth considering if im not watching movies on it?


Thanks
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post #2 of 23
10/11/09 at 12:19pm
I went widescreen a few years ago when it was rare and support was only just beginning and I never regretted it.
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post #3 of 23
10/11/09 at 12:21pm
Widescreen gaming is brilliant. Go for it. I've got a 24" 1920x1200 TN panel.
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post #4 of 23
10/11/09 at 7:13pm
Thread Starter 
Well i was already leaning towards WS but im pulling the trigger on the Iiyama ProLite E2207WS-2 iiyama
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post #5 of 23
10/12/09 at 4:47am
Go wide,I use 32" love, love, it.
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post #6 of 23
10/12/09 at 1:21pm
I would not get anything but a widescreen.
Works really great for every kind of task. Watching movies, playing games, text editing, forums, ...
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post #7 of 23
10/12/09 at 1:45pm
Widescreen is great for gaming and multitasking. Most games use widescreen, and it's great to be able to open up a browser window and a document side by side, or two documents side by side, etc.

If you will be working on only one document at a time, or spreadsheets that are taller than they are wide, a traditional 4:3 aspect ratio would be better. My girlfriend loves the 4:3 ratio on her laptop and prefers it to widescreen.
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post #8 of 23
10/12/09 at 4:21pm
Go widescreen and go as large as you can afford. You'll wonder how you ever got by without all that screen real-estate. The height of a screen rarely matters, but being able to put things next to eachother is a real win. Some of the programmers I work with have tried widescreen in portrait mode, as it in theory lets you view lots of code at once, but none of them stuck with it: it doesn't matter as much as say, have a browser window within easy reach, or readable width emails in outlook.
More importantly, widescreen options are cheaper so you get to buy a bigger screen. Bigger is better here
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post #9 of 23
10/12/09 at 4:36pm
you can still get 4:3 monitors?
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post #10 of 23
10/12/09 at 5:21pm
go 1920x1200
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post #11 of 23
10/12/09 at 8:01pm
I went from a Sony Trinitron (19") to my current Dell 2709W (27") and am loving it. I also had reservations about going widescreen (mainly because I have amassed a large number of wallpapers in 4:3 format and I thought the old aspect ratio is fine). But it was easy to start collecting new, higher-resolution wallies and most shows nowadays are in widescreen anyway. Games, especially FPS, look superb as well, though you do have to make sure your PC specs are sufficient to run games at the increased resolution.

Go widescreen. There is not much reason to stay with legacy stuff, especially when new releases (games, movies, etc.) are designed mainly for widescreen format nowadays.

Cheers!
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post #12 of 23
10/12/09 at 9:18pm
i have a 24" widescreen. its fantastic for multitasking - documents side by side. also better for movies
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post #13 of 23
10/12/09 at 11:15pm
I wouldn't have anything else but widescreen. The only thing better is two of them! :P
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post #14 of 23
10/13/09 at 1:52am
<3 my 1920x1080 24in Widescreen LCD
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post #15 of 23
10/13/09 at 2:06am
HD FTW man. Could never go back to SD. You won't regret it. Amazing for movies, internet surfing with multiple windows open (along with microsoft document etc).
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