Comments on: What's the benefit of 16:9 on a 20-inch monitor?

I have a question. Is having a 16:9 aspect ratio monitor (as opposed to 16:10) really all that beneficial? The answer is, "it depends".

[scythie]

I find 16:9 too wide. And besides, manufacturers are only pushing it to ease on their costs... I say 16:10 FTW!

[zmnatz]

Can someone find me a 24" 4:3 display. Nah just kidding. But seriously, monitors keep becoming more and more vertically challenged. It's getting a little annoying for someone who writes code for a living like myself.

[mediocrates--2008]

Have you tried flipping your 16:10 monitor 90 degrees?

[shootfirst]

What I found more interesting is that the author of the article had to bring in porn. This article didn't really need that mentioned as there are no warnings that the article will contain racy comments and promotion of pornography. All I got out of this article was which is the better display setting to watch porn. What is up with CNET, posting cialis ads, that I tell my spam filter to block and now promoting porn?
[CNET editors' note: Personal attack deleted.]

[guymatrin]

"racy comments and promotion of pornography"

Way to overexaggerate and take things to the extreme. Tool.

[giuliocesare]

"What's the benefit of 16:9 on a 20-inch monitor?"

None. At all.

Seriously, 16:9 is horrible. 16:10 is far better.

Honestly, the only "advantage" I can see in 16:9 is in movies. As if that is the only thing that I do on my PC.

16:10 was developed as a compromise between 16:9 widescreen (too extreme) and doing actual PC tasks like word processing. And frankly, that is exactly how I like it.

Besides, the "advantage" that I mentioned is actually nonexistent to begin with, as 16:10 displays are able to do 16:9, but not the other way around.

[LightningCat315]

Well I can say one thing from experience about the HP 2009m monitor, its audio is mind blowing and if you have Windows Vista and switch the audio to 24-bit audio its even more amazing!And if the tower (hard drive) has NVIDIA and has a NVIDIA graphics processor and GeForce graphics card its a treat for the eyes (and thats also speaking from experience) and if you switch it to the 16:9 recommended pixelization and you updated your monitor driver from a Generic PnP monitor to the HP 2009m Wide Series HD LCD monitor, its even more mind blowing!And back to its audio, it has a 5.1 Digital Dolby HD Surrond Sound speakers that blast at the rate of a true 5.1 Digital Dolby HD Home Theatre Surrond Sound quaility!And when recording if you have Windows Vista set it to studio recording quailty its awesome the recording output quaility when you hear it is beyond insane because it rules so much.