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What type of screen does everyone have - widescreen or 4:3? I'll go first....

 
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.....widescreen; i have a laptop!

 
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15th July, 2008 at 18:58:22 -

I have 5:4 actually...
1280*1042.

 
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Valve survey says 4:3 is more popular amongst gamers still (urgh, get a new monitor FFS!). Go for that.

 
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I hate Widescreen. If I get a new monitor it'll just be a bigger 4:3.
(Read Bibin's "I hate Widescreen" post somewhere in the forum...)

 
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Ive got a 4:3 monitor, Although my laptop is wide screen. I rarely use it though.

 
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I got a 1680x1050 monitor.

My gaming TV is widescreen too.

 
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iMac... 1680x1050.

 
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Also 1680*1050 for my current setup.

Widescreen gaming and vids, horizontal menu's, yum!

 
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16th July, 2008 at 19:17:51 -

I was very surprised by the Valve survey, i thought everyone preferred widescreen these days what with the popularity of widescreen T.V.'s, but i can see why people prefere 4:3. However, i've gotten used to widescreen now and wouldn't wanna go back! Then again, i didn't wanna go widescreen in the first place!!

 
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16th July, 2008 at 19:24:01 -

1280*1024>1280*720
Normal Screen>Wide screen.
Personally I don't see any advantage of wide screens against normal screens other than watching movies. (In PCs, not TVs) They just cause disturbing incompatibilities. Widescreen TV broadcasting disturbs me too, as I can't watch it right in my room's 4:3 TV, and a wide one won't fit in it unless it has the same width of my 4:3 TV. (My TV is more or less inside a "box hole")

 
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16th July, 2008 at 19:33:56 -

Having a wider field of vision is nice. However, some games do widescreen mode by just cutting of the top and bottom of the 4:3 image. Most seem to do it properly though (extending the edges)

 
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16th July, 2008 at 20:09:43 -


Originally Posted by LIJI

Personally I don't see any advantage of wide screens against normal screens other than watching movies.



I can see many reasons
Better for image editing (since, for PS at least, the standard menu layout is vertical, same with MMF2), any A/V editing that uses a timeline, wider field of view in games. And of course video playback. And good widescreen monitors have sensors so they rotate as you tilt them, most of my writer friends do this.
Are there actually any benefits of using a non-widescreen display, other than for old games (valid reason).

 
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16th July, 2008 at 20:25:04 -

Widescreens are not wider than normal screens, it's normal screens that are higher than widescreens!
"Better for image editing (since, for PS at least, the standard menu layout is vertical, same with MMF2), any A/V editing that uses a timeline, wider field of view in games."
Normal screens have this advantage for document editing, as most of them are portrait.
"And good widescreen monitors have sensors so they rotate as you tilt them, most of my writer friends do this." That's the only thing I found cool in widescreen. X)

Not related, but my cousin has a HUGE widescreen, 2560*1440 I think, might be bigger, and I don't see the point of having a screen that is THAT big. It takes a few seconds (!) to get from the bottom left corner (Start menu/Application menu/K Menu and Quick launch/application links) to the top right (X button). Now if you mistakenly open the wrong application it takes quite longer to close it.

 
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16th July, 2008 at 22:57:05 -

1920x1280 and loving it widescreen is the best!

 
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Originally Posted by LIJI
Not related, but my cousin has a HUGE widescreen, 2560*1440 I think, might be bigger, and I don't see the point of having a screen that is THAT big. It takes a few seconds (!) to get from the bottom left corner (Start menu/Application menu/K Menu and Quick launch/application links) to the top right (X button). Now if you mistakenly open the wrong application it takes quite longer to close it.



That's an odd negative considering the glaring positives widescreen has.

 
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17th July, 2008 at 00:17:20 -

It wasn't about the fact that it's widescreen but the fact that it's huge.

 
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17th July, 2008 at 07:33:16 -

5:3

 
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17th July, 2008 at 07:37:17 -


Originally Posted by LIJI
It wasn't about the fact that it's widescreen but the fact that it's huge.


Yeah, I saw a friend of mine with a monitor with such a high resolution. He took like 3 or so passes with the mouse just to get from 1 side to the other.

 
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17th July, 2008 at 07:59:41 -

I have widescreen. 1680x1050

 
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17th July, 2008 at 08:30:14 -

Definitely use widescreen, most people use at least a resolution of 1680 x 1050.

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17th July, 2008 at 09:04:19 -


Originally Posted by alspal
Definitely use widescreen, most people use at least a resolution of 1680 x 1050.

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I actually thought the most commonly used widescreen resolution was 1440x900.

 
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17th July, 2008 at 09:09:08 -

Amongst Steam users 162,407 have 1680*1050, 134,147 have 1440*900.


 
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17th July, 2008 at 09:31:13 -

1920 x 1200 here, 24" iMac. I much prefer widescreen on larger monitors but on lower resolutions it isn't as nice.

It takes me less than one swipe of the mouse to get across the screen, a lot less in fact.

 
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17th July, 2008 at 11:26:00 -

Actually the most common resolution within clickers, according to the visitors of my extensions list in July 2008, is 1024*768, used by 36.2% of the visitors.
Then comes 1280*1024 with 18.3%, 1280*800 with 10.9% and 1680x1050 with 9.7%.
(And btw, 800*600 with finally dead with 2.1%. )
67.9% of visitors have Normal Screens where the rest (32.1%) have Wide screens. No visitors with dual screen!

If I count all the stats in 2008 it'd be:

1024x768 (34.8 %)
1280x1024 (21.5 %)
1280x800 (13.7 %)
1440x900 (6.7 %)
1680x1050 (6.5 %)
1152x864 (5.2 %)
1920x1200 (34 %)
1280x960 (2.0 %)
1600x1200 (1.9 %)
800x600 (1.9 %)

Normal (68.3 %)
Widescreen (31.5 %)
Dual Screen (0.2 %)


 
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17th July, 2008 at 11:58:11 -

You inspired me to check my stats, I don't have screen res stuff but 32% of visitors to my site yesterday were using IE

 
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17th July, 2008 at 12:09:28 -

Browsers stats as of July 2008:
Firefox 3.0 (30.1 %)
Firefox 2.0 (28.0 %)
Internet Explorer 7.0 (16.3 %)
Internet Explorer 6.0 (14.5 %)
Opera 9.2 (4.8 %)
Opera 9.5 (2.7 %)
Safari 525.2 (1.4 %)
Firefox 1.0 (0.9 %)
Firefox 1.5 (0.8 %)
Opera 9.0 (0.5 %)

By Rendering Engine:

Gecko (Mozilla, Netscape) (59.8 %)
Internet Explorer (30.9 %)
Opera 53 (8.0 %)
Khtml (Konqueror, Safari) (1.4 %)

But yes, Clicking requires brain, and people with brains are unlikely to use IE.

 
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17th July, 2008 at 12:28:01 -

Widescreen, 1680x1050 for me. I like the extra room for Photoshop etc, and also gaming is much better with a wide FOV, if the developer has bothered to make it that way.

 
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Or maybe, like me, they can't be bothered to get a different browser
Is IE that bad? I mean I only have AVG on my system and never had a virus, in my systems near 2 year long life I've only formatted XP and OSX once each. And that was just for a spring clean!

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17th July, 2008 at 12:34:05 -

That's only because AVG is awful. Get McAfee or NOD32.

 
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17th July, 2008 at 12:38:01 -

I recently got a Widescreen monitor, 1680x1050. Screens with decent 4:3 ratio were nowhere to be found in the store I got this one from.

 
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17th July, 2008 at 15:59:53 -

Ah, that's partly why i asked this question in the first place as i pretty much couldn't find any 4:3 monitors anymore in PC World, Currys, Comet etc. I wondered how far back this went, whether it's only the last 6 months that they have stopped selling (and people have stopped buying) the older non-widescreen monitors/screens.

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17th July, 2008 at 16:48:19 -

Of course. They've started killing them.Hey, does anyone remember the "Floppy Disk"? You know, the thing used in the "Save" icon? No one? What about the CRT monitors? Video tapes? Anything?

 
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I was running rampage in Costco a few hours ago and no 4:3 monitors, displays or anything just the regular iPods. Even Tom Tom's are widescreen!

 
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Yeah i remember video cassettes, audio cassettes, Betamax, LPs, VCRs, 386's, 486's, ZX Sinclairs, they were all great. But they all got succeeded to be fair, despite how fond i (still) am for all of them.

 
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18th July, 2008 at 16:53:05 -


Originally Posted by LIJI
That's only because AVG is awful. Get McAfee or NOD32.


oh sweet! I've been hating AVG and wondered what else might be good.

 
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McAfee is very good, i second that suggestion

 
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20th July, 2008 at 17:30:01 -

1920 x 1200 for my desktop, 1440 x 900 for my laptop.

 
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21st July, 2008 at 13:53:58 -

1440 * 900
<3 widescreen :C

anyway, it doesn't give back the 320*240 feeling in that resolution. retro gaming is with crt the best

 
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Good point Borgi, it doesn't lend itself to the retro feel of older titles! There's nothing i like more in a retro title than 320x240 screen resolution!

 
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21st July, 2008 at 15:49:56 -

I need to find myself a CRT monitor. They are pretty good for 2D's

 
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and they are pretty cheap now ^^

 
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22nd July, 2008 at 23:30:56 -

They were even cheap about 5 years ago when i bought my old pc. The model of lcd screen that came with the pc was sold out so i picked up a £49 19 inch crt monitor and ive used it ever since. Came in a bloody big box though.

 
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