4:3 19" lcd's???

[Silent Frog]

How come I can't find any 4:3, 1600x1200, 19" LCD screens. They are all in this crappy 5:4 res (which I use on my current 17" LCD) which makes things a little tall in 1024x768 or 1280x960. Personally I like the 4:3 aspect so much more. My other option is to go for widescreen, but I'd have to go for a 20" and then it is stil a 16:10, where the standard in movies and games as well (it seems) is 16:9... WTF is going on in the LCD world?? Do I have to buy a 38" LCD TV to get the right aspect ratio? lol, would be nice!

See, I can't play every game in 1280x1024, So having a native res like that, really doesn't help. If I have a native 4:3 res, then all the res's would look ok, see?

[ajrettke]

Well moves on a 16:10 LCD look fine, there's just a thin black bar on top and bottom. You can get a dell 2001fp, which is a 20" 1600x1200.

Your right about 5:4 being crappy, but wrong about 16:10. Almost all PC games are 16:10 supported...a few include 16:9 also. If you only have one monitor, heck I would get a 37" LCD....there's a sceptre 37" one that does 1080p (1900x1080) for like 1400...definetly a sweet deal if you want to have one nice screen for everything.

[Silent Frog]

I'm in Australia BTW. So do the currency conversion and then times by 1.4 to get the AUD cost... :rolleyes:

So you say most games now would support one of the dell 20" widescreens? That would be cool. Althought they are $850 here. I am planning on upgrading (buying a completely new) my computer. Because at the moment I just have the fastest XP chip, and AGP video cards are getting hard to find. So I need new mobo, cpu, ram, vc, and so on. So I figured why not upgrade the 16ms 17"er... I just don't want to spend more on the screen then on the other parts for an upgrade...

[ajrettke]

I can see where your coming from, but if you think about it, if you bought a 20" LCD....how long would you use it?
I'm big on perhipherals....I'll spend a lot on em because I know I'll have em a long time (had my Klipsch 4.1's for almost 6 years), had this 2405 a year and plan on keeping it for quite some time...
the 1920x1200 and 1680x1050 are the 2 common widescreen PC gaming reses