Monitors...Standard or Wide

Looking to upgrade my monitor. Standard or Widescreen is it just personal preference .... I would like to hear from experience.

Thanks
Jim

I have a standard, but good quality 19" TFT, but wish I could have afforded (at the time) a nice widescreen - The extra width would be very useful for editing and browsing images etc.

All comes down to cost at the end of the day - the widescreens are more expensive.

Widescreens are more expensive per area. I got two standard ones side by side and they work nicely.

I prefer widescreen since my primary focus is editing images. If you're thinking LCD, Dell tends to have good deals on theirs.

I'm a widescreen user - currently I'm sitting behind my calibrated Dell 2007WFP. I find the extra space at the edges for palettes and the like to be very useful in both Microsoft Office and Adobe CS2 applications.

David

I purchased a Viewsonic 22" LCD Widescreen at Costco for $299 when they were on sale a few months ago... Never looked back... I love this widescreen perspective...

- airbutchie

PS. I upgraded from a Scepter 19" LCD (standard 4:3 size)...

I'm with DavidW. I currently have a regular screen. But would rather have a wide screen. I think the most important items of the computer is
1. chair
2. keyboard
3. screen

Yes speed is important, and other things. But the screen has become more and more important to me.

How do other things look on a widescreen LCD, like gaming for example? surely unless a game supports the widescreen mode it will be like a 4:3 image with borders down the left & right of the screen?

My next monitor is going to be either a 19" widescreen, or a 21", my 19" Sony CRT is getting on a bit now.

Nick

You need a monitor that'll handle 8 bit color space for best results in photo editing, which can range widely in price. Just about all these low cost windscreens at holiday discount pricing are 6 bit monitors.

I use a HP f1905e 19" LCD. It's exceptional. I do wish I had more desktop real estate but that comes at a price and I really didn't want to sacrifice image quality for screen size. My next monitor will be a 22" or 23" widescreen. Who knows, maybe even the Apple 30", which is sweeter than sweet.

The Viewsonic vx2235 is a fabulous monitor. By no means did I expect it do be a great photo-editing monitor, but its better than any other monitor I have seen or used. I've used Dells, NECs and other monitors, but once this is calibrated, it's amazing. Oh ya, its only $350 at Costco, 22" wide is really nice.

8-bit is subjective (although my panel is), as long as the prints come out the way you want it doesnt matter. Using this monitor in conjunction with WHCC, I have been only impressed by the accuracy.

Most games support some form of widescreen, and quite a few will support it at the high resolutions. I can, for example, play BF2142 at nearly full resolution on this 20" widescreen, and it's not out of proportion or stretched.
You'd be hard pressed to find a game that doesn't support widescreen

Neat!!

Any of you folks using two 19" LCD's side by side, one connected DVI and one analog?

I currently have a 2 year old Dell 19" that I'd like to leave as the "right hand" analog monitor for my CS2 menus, and then purchase a new 19" LCD to be used for images.

I'm using a 20" Widescreen Ultrasharp from Dell and it's great, love the extra space and ability to rotate when editing portrait. I don't game on my pc so that's not a consideration for me.