monitors with classic aspect ratio?

[cellio]

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.

Comments

[chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com]

I might be able to find some leads. I'll try to remember to look when I'm at work tomorrow.

[chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com]

Poked around a bit and the places I would have sent you appear to have stopped making their previous models and not replaced them with new ones... I saw a few individually for sale at Amazon &etc but that's it.

[cellio]

It looks like nobody's doing 4:3 any more, but 16:10 is findable if you look and seems to be a significant improvement over 16:9.

[chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com]

16:10 is the newer "widescreen" version so it's becoming more common as manufacturers take into account that people are using their PCs to watch TV/movies. It's also closer to 4:3 than 16:9 is, so it makes sense that it's better.