What's the usefulness of a wide-screen monitor when the picture is distorted (fatter)?

Question

shouldnt we view only screens with 4:3 (golden) ratio?

Answer 1

- Video cards (and yes even onboard graphics) are clever enough to provide support for both the standard 4:3 resolutions and the 16:9 or 16:10 resolutions. It works for movies, web pages, desktops, and even video games. Theres no distortion whatsoever as you describe unless you use a 4:3 ratio, and even then many monitor/video solutions are clever enough to adapt to that.

- Viewing a square area seems like a mathematically/trigonometrically more effecient viewing model ONLY when the observer is considered as a single viewpoint of origin... you will have no doubt noticed, that you in fact have 2 eyeballs. The rectangle is more efficient and this is why widescreen came into being in the first place.

- 4:3 ratios and 4:3 screens in my opinion seem to present greater risk of tunnelvision: the widescreen keeps you panning left to right - which is more natural. Its also why I really suck at driving, incidentally.

- Widescreen owes itself to multitasking: its much more practical in 16:10 to multitask (eg. view a side by side comparison of images or documents) than a 4:3 screen where everything tends to get done one thing at a time. The only way to do this effectively in 4:3 is to get a 2nd monitor which isn't always an option.

Answer 2

Except 4:3 is not the golden ratio. The golden ratio is 1.6180339887:1 or about 8:5 which is the same as the widescreen LCD panel ratio of 16:10.

If you set the desktop resolution to the native resolution of the panel then images will display properly.

If you are looking at 4:3 or 5:4 pictures then either do not maximize the window they are in and let the picture determine the window aspect ratio, or use a picture viewer that does not force the picture aspect ratio to that of the full screen.

Answer 3

I have a ViewSonic V2012wb 20" wide screen monitor and an nVIDIA FX5200 video card with 256 Mb video RAM. My screen is not distorted or "fat". My video card determined that I have a wide screen monitor and offered the 16:9 ratio screen settings. If your video card does not offer the proper ratios for your monitor, then upgrade your video driver.

Answer 4

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