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Originally Posted by whubbard
*kicks TwoRails*
after I got my 24" Samsung Widescreen, I'm never going back. I am brought to tears whenever I leave that computer, and go elsewhere and have to use a 4:3.
Also, most games have widescreen suppport (even many older ones...somebody was on the ball), and its great for movies.
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Ouch! That hurt
It may just be my lack of experience with wide screens. On the totally amateur level I do a fair amount of photo editing, most of which are my own. And as you got comfortable with your 24 inch widescreen, I'm used to my 22 inch ViewSonic Pro series 4:3 CTR monitor.
A good friend of mine, who is a very serious amateur photographer (he's been in a couple magazines and even has a photo in Wikipedia), was thinking of getting a new LCD as his CRT is getting old, and he wanted more desk space. We went shopping one day and we looked at the proverbial gazillions of monitors. He brought along a bunch of his own photos so we would have a true reference point for viewing. The big "turn off" was that simple things like Windows Preview would stretch the images. Nobody knew how to set the program to show as 4:3. Although he is not an avid gamer, he has tons to games that he has yet to play meaning they are all older 4:3 games and he doesn't want those stretched, either. We were both amazed to find out that 4:3 LCDs are almost nonexistent anymore.
Who knows, by the time this CRT needs replaced in about five to seven years, 4:3 monitors of any type might be nonexistent.
-- TR