Does Everybody Like Widescreen ?

Not really. 99% of sites can make use of widescreen resolutions and the remainder usually letterbox (ie their aspect ratio does not change, they just don't use all the horizontal space).

Stu

Do I like my widescreen?
A big yes. From watching DVD's in widescreen to multitasking with multiple documents up at once, to Photoshopping to playing games, it's great.

As far as websites go, I have zero issues.

Once you go wide you never go back...

I have to agree with you

I'm a little confused. You think the display ratio affects the loading of a webpage? Why would a webpage care about the display's ratio?

It's the webbrowser that it is concernced with, and even if you have a 4:3 display, you could make the browser 16:10 in dimensions, and that wouldn't affect loading a page would it? So why would it matter if the same browser were running full screen on a wide screen display? And if it's not full screen, it's not like you can't make the browser window a 4:3 ratio.

anyway, there's no way a wide screen display would mess up the loading of a webpage. I've used a WS screen for over 2 yrs now, and have not had a single issue, and as the others have said, "once you go wide, you never go back" haha

i like it wide

fathergoose,

I think also, you are missing one of the reasons for WS displays. the idea is to have more realestate for more things to be viewable without being covered up. In many, probably most cases, the idea would be for the higher resolution displays to have the browser taking up maybe half to 2/3 the screen area, and other things like IM's or chats or some other thing in the open area so you can bounce around windows that aren't covered up

as to the web pages not filling a WS, that's because the designer built the page with a max width, usually to keep the look a certain way. You'll notice this forum will stretch to any width, but the layout isn't important here. But somthing like a newspaper site would want a more controlled layout, so they intentionally don't allow it to adjust to the width of a WS display like the 1920x1200 I'm on

So, I tend to limit the width of my browser to the max width of some of the pages I normally view, so it's around 75% of this diplay I'm using right now, which is a 19" 1440x900 external, cause I got tired of squinting at the 15.4" 1920x1200 with my 9100 haha

you'll discover over time that a few sites have bad programming, but most intentionally have limits, if they don't fill up your screen when in full screen web browsing You'll get used to it, don't worry. haha

I watch HDTV on it, so yeah, I need widescreen.

Did you get the Dell package for the TV Tuner or do you use something else?

I love widescreen, and I do the same thing as rogueone

Non-widescreen is so late '90s.

Will never go back to 4:3...

Love widescreen but really wish Dell would produce 16:9 screens rather than 16:10.

Iwant all the pixels I can get.

only prob i've had with web pages in a wide bowser is some pages have background tile pics that repeat horizontally when they probably weren't meant to, a trivial thing compared to the benefits of wide. But I never run the browser full width anyway.

Like my old Sony tube TV with rabbit ears.

I went with something else. I got the idea from this post:
http://www.notebookforums.com/thread146317.html

This is what I use now:
http://www.fusionhdtv.co.kr/eng/Products/HDTV5usb.aspx

I bought it from http://www.snapstream.com, along with Beyond TV. I recently bought a used Winegard Sharpshooter SS3300 for a stronger signal, and now I get ALL the channels. I love it! I barely use my regular TV anymore.

I love widescreen. I also love my Dell 20" widescreen even more.