subject: Your Guide To Widescreen Monitors [print this page] There are a lot of people these days who have improved their work quality, speed and ease by using widescreen monitors for their computers instead of the standard format monitors. With more and more tasks being completed with the aid of computers, it is becoming more and more of a requirement that people are able to see much more when they look at their computer screens, and one of the best ways to get this done is by using widescreen monitors. People are asked to do more things that require more screen space much faster with each passing day, and it becomes a critical component of efficiency to have the right display to work with. Here are a handful of some of the benefits to using one of these larger, more capable ones for your own computer:
First of all, they arent just for computers! There are so many DVDs and even TV shows that are in this format that these wider display boxes are perfectly suited to see the most action in each and every frame during the viewing. Not only that, but this also applies to when you are watching these shows on your PC or notebook.
If you enjoy reading books, newspapers or journals online, you would benefit from using a widescreen monitor to get a full range view of either two pages displayed together (like a book) or larger views of one page at a time. Some monitors have this option so that when they are turned vertically, the entire page can be seen and scrolled through, page by page.
There are many other options that people may have no idea about, and if you do a little bit of research you are going to be able to discover a whole new world of display! Most of the non linear digital video editing software that a lot of people use are better, more functional and easier to use when they have more horizontal space to work with as opposed to a ton of vertical space.
There are also very few computer games that are made that run at a 640 X 400 resolution, which means that they are going to be perfect for the widescreen monitors. There are a few that can be set either to full screen or widescreen formats, but these monitors are going to give you much wider horizontal fields of view without sacrificing vertical FOV, so be sure to keep any of the points mentioned here that pertain to you in mind when you go shopping for your next monitor.
