My 19" CRT monitor appears to be on the way out. Finally, time for one of those nice thin LCD monitors! I'm running Windows XP Home and my computer is about 3 years old, and I figured I could just plug in a new monitor and be good to go.
Looking at Best Buy, most of the monitors available were widescreen LCD monitors. I noticed that the widescreen monitors on display clearly distorted the images shown...in other words, the images appear to be stretched wide to fit the shape of the screen. When viewing a human, the guy on the widescreen monitor looked like he had a fat head; on the few (regular?) monitors on display, he looked normal.
I sure don't want my photos distorted when I view them. I don't understand why anyone would want a widescreen monitor if it distorts images, so there must be something I'm not understanding here. As you can tell, I'm not a sophisticated computer shopper; I only buy something when I have no choice because the old one died.
Can someone explain why widescreen monitors are desirable, if they distort images? If they can be set to not distort images, am I going to have a black bar going down each side of the screen? I don't get it. Thanks for any help!
Sheri
Widescreen LCD monitors...why?
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