What is a Widescreen Monitor?
A widescreen monitor is a monitor that is often wider than the traditional monitor size that has generally been accepted for years as the main standard. The standard size for monitors has been 4:3, where it is slightly wider than it is tall. While there is no industry standard definition that fits, a widescreen monitor is one that is wider than this ratio. The most common widescreen monitor format is set at a ratio of 16:9. This is a practical ratio that helps provide many of the benefits of a widescreen monitor in a way that is not as extreme as some formats. If a computer gets too wide in its display, it does lose some of its functionality. Some notebook computers are compressed slightly more, with a widescreen monitor that is 16:10. However, the difference is hardly noticeable. The popularity of widescreen computer monitors coincides with the development of HDTV and that format’s popularity. While the two do not necessarily share a direct relationship, the demand for widescreens see
