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| Thread ID: 92896 | 2008-08-27 04:40:00 | Non-widescreen monitors to become extinct? | GoodHour (12218) | PC World Chat |
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| 700810 | 2008-08-27 20:20:00 | What are they like for playing older games? The ones that only support lower resolutions. Do they have black bars either side? Not always. A lot of them just stretch the image to fit. which looks like ****. And a good reason why I don't like them |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 700811 | 2008-08-27 20:56:00 | Not always. A lot of them just stretch the image to fit. which looks like ****. And a good reason why I don't like them That's all to do with the PC, rather than the monitor. Older PCs often don't have the capabilities of either displaying the right resolution, or simply don't scale/resize things properly. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 700812 | 2008-08-27 21:28:00 | Not always. A lot of them just stretch the image to fit. which looks like ****. And a good reason why I don't like them nVidia drivers allow you to keep the picture at the monitor's default resolution which means black bars on the sides & top. This allows older games to look relatively normal on a bigger display. |
autechre (266) | ||
| 700813 | 2008-08-27 21:39:00 | Widescreen monitors have a perceived market for gamers and movie watchers I suppose. Since the majority of the documents I read are in portrait format, I find widescreen would only be useful for yawning on. One hopes that proper monitors will always be available ;) What you want is what Apple had years ago in there DTP area. A WS monitor that can swivel to portrait then back to widescreen.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 700814 | 2008-08-27 21:48:00 | Hmm. SWMBO thinks that widescreen are a better fit for her eyes. Maybe so. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 700815 | 2008-08-27 21:52:00 | She's Chinese? | wratterus (105) | ||
| 700816 | 2008-08-27 21:54:00 | Very. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 700817 | 2008-08-27 22:00:00 | I would think (haven't tried it) that a widescreen rotated to portrait would be the bees knees for what you do. Thats why my new L shaped screens are so good ! |
Digby (677) | ||
| 700818 | 2008-08-27 22:35:00 | That's all to do with the PC, rather than the monitor. Older PCs often don't have the capabilities of either displaying the right resolution, or simply don't scale/resize things properly. That issue could be addressed at either software or monitor level. LCDs emulate non-native resolutions; if the firmware doesn't allow eg. 800x600 to be emulated on a widescreen LCD with blank spaces on either side to retain the aspect ratio, that is a design deficiency in the LCD. It ought to be done in the LCD, from a technical point of view. :badpc: |
GoodHour (12218) | ||
| 700819 | 2008-08-27 22:53:00 | Are 4:3 LCD monitors really going to go out of production? Yes. Currently one of my suppliers that sells Viewsonic have exactly one 4:3, and thats it. |
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