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monitors with classic aspect ratio?
Dear Brain Trust,
Some years ago, manufacturers of computer monitors (and TVs, which have a lot in common with monitors) decided that the most-critical use case now is watching widescreen movies. The result is that a monitor in landscape orientation is too short, and (for me, with larger fonts) one in portrait orientation is too narrow. At home I've still got a monitor with the classic aspect ratio, but it's only 20" (would like a little bigger, but the same aspect ratio). At work I have two of the other kind (22"? 24"? haven't measured, but something like that).
Arguably I have enough screen real-estate, but it's the wrong shape. Before I just give up and order a mucking huge single monitor (a coworker has one that's about three feet wide, so I guess nominally a 42" monitor or so), does anybody know whether it's still possible to get the classic aspect ratio? I want to look at code, documentation, web pages, and stuff like that, not movies. I watch movies on my actual TV, thankyouverymuch.
Some years ago, manufacturers of computer monitors (and TVs, which have a lot in common with monitors) decided that the most-critical use case now is watching widescreen movies. The result is that a monitor in landscape orientation is too short, and (for me, with larger fonts) one in portrait orientation is too narrow. At home I've still got a monitor with the classic aspect ratio, but it's only 20" (would like a little bigger, but the same aspect ratio). At work I have two of the other kind (22"? 24"? haven't measured, but something like that).
Arguably I have enough screen real-estate, but it's the wrong shape. Before I just give up and order a mucking huge single monitor (a coworker has one that's about three feet wide, so I guess nominally a 42" monitor or so), does anybody know whether it's still possible to get the classic aspect ratio? I want to look at code, documentation, web pages, and stuff like that, not movies. I watch movies on my actual TV, thankyouverymuch.
John
(Anonymous) 2014-06-05 01:16 am (UTC)(link)Re: John