Widescreen vs Non-widescreen

[imported_Com80787]

How do widescreen vs non-widescreen monitors compare as far as which one has more screen area? If you have a 19" non-widescreen monitor for instance and a 19" widescreen monitor which has the most screen area?

 

[nanaki333]

widescreen can have more stuff on the screen spread out. both have the same total viewable space of 19 inches.

 

[Ackmed]

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/screenshots/

You get much more side to side, and a little less on top and bottom with a WS monitor. If the game supports true WS, which most do, and more and more continue to do so. I will not go back to 4:3.

 

[BernardP]

Everything you want to know is there:

http://www.tvcalculator.com/

 

[TheRyuu]

Any new monitor you get should be a widescreen, period.

WS is (I think) the future of gaming as well as the future of TV and everything else.

Having a widescreen monitor really just makes you feel more in the game/movie/whatever then a regular monitor.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Ackmed
http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/screenshots/

You get much more side to side, and a little less on top and bottom with a WS monitor. If the game supports true WS, which most do, and more and more continue to do so. I will not go back to 4:3.

no, it's more like much less vertically and a little more side to side. which is why a widescreen monitor has less physical area than a normal 4:3 monitor.

a typical 20" 4:3 is 1600x1200. to get to widescreen, you add 80 pixels, or 5%, to the width, but lose 12.5% on the height.


and widescreen monitors are generally horrible for drafting, unless yours has portrait mode. 20" widescreen in portrait mode = teh win for drafting. unfortunately, a 19" with the typical 1440x900 resolution isn't wide enough for many web pages when turned on its side.

 

[CP5670]

The non-widescreen one will always have more area if the diagonal lengths are the same.