Re: Am I the only person who isn't crazy over WIDE SCREEN?
- From: Don Taylor <dont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:46:47 -0600
Stephen Wilson <astephenwilson@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>On 29 Jan 2006 09:40:15 -0800, @mailbolt.com posted:
>>I don't know if it's a psychological thing or what, but although I do
>>like a Big Screen TV... I would prefer the older SQUARE design to the
>>newer WIDE SCREEN types.
>>
>>Maybe it has something to do with watching the SQUARE TUBE for all of
>>my life or the fact that sometimes, when I'm watching a foorball game
>>over a friends house the players don't look proportioned correctly on
>>the wide screen,
>Nope! If it matters, I'm in the same boat as you, I like my square
>screen, it matches my square head, and I LIKE IT! ;-D
>No, seriously, I have 3 square monitors and I love them all.
Remember the olden days with rounded faced terminals?
Then they invented flat screen monitors, and to try to hide that
they weren' REALLY flat they put a thick plastic bezel around the
outside edge of the screen that stood out perhaps 1/3" or more.
If you had a decade or more under your belt sitting in front of the
old style CRTs the overwhelming feeling was that the new monitor
screen was CONCAVE! For months I couldn't get over that feeling.
I also notice that none of the stores ever put a roughly comparable
size and price old style television next to a new hdtv. I really
think if they were that much better everyone would be showing side
by side comparisons. But nobody seems to want a potential buyer to
get a direct comparison of the two. They especially don't want to
put sets that cost 4x the price but are roughly the same size as
the old style sets.
Supposedly one of the chain stores had an "hdtv" that was only 15"
I think on sale before christmas for below $200. At that price I
might be curious enough to try out hdtv. (Anandtech hot deals web
page had the info on this and might still have it, but the chain
didn't have any local stores) I also don't know whether it was
"really" hdtv or not.
.
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