Today I wanna RANT about what mainstream media has done to gaming.

It is TRAGIC.

In the past few years, we have seen a sharp decline in the number of 16:10 aspect ratio monitors available in the market.

I've been using a good ol' Dell 2407 Monitor for the past 6 years; and it is finally falling apart. I've been searching for the past couple of months, but I have yet to find a worthy successor to this awesome monitor.

Every manufacturer in the market is catering to the lameass FULL-HD 16: 9 1920 x 1080 range of monitors. They are completely neglecting the good ol' 1920 x 1200 16:10 monitor market.

What's the craze about everything being Full-HD? Seriously? To me, games are meant to be played in 16:10. 16: 9 is just so long; so skewy; I HATE it. I've tried gaming on 16: 9 monitors and oh, it's such a pain in the dick. And the ass.

Now, I want to get myself a good 16:10 monitor. But NOOOOOOOOO, they have to come at such an insane premium as compared to their lameass 16: 9 counterparts. All I want for Christmas is a good, reasonably priced 24" 16:10 monitor, and I can only find 2 decent screens available from Dell (U2410) and Asus (the ProArt monitor) which are apparently catered to the "Professional" crowd. Not even LED backlit and the colours would probably look too "oversaturated" for my professionally untrained eyes because of the insane colour gamut.

Now, where can I find a good LED backlit 24" 1920 x 1200 monitor (with HDMI) without having to fork out millions for one from Eizo or NEC, and not having to settle for some sub-par monitor like the Dell U2412 which does not even have HDMI input?!

Why? What is it with people's obsession with Full HD? Good grief give me back my 16:10 monitors.

Any suggestions for a monitor that suits my needs? Please help

It would be met with UTMOST appreciation.

REDBLUEGREEN

Germany1904 Posts

December 18 2011 17:17 GMT

still rocking with 5:4 1280:1024. Gonna use it until it breaks which might happen soon since it turns to green unless I put the cable in an awkward position. Never understood why the format changed to widescreen, be it in movies or games...

SiN]

United States540 Posts

December 18 2011 17:26 GMT

If I may join you in ranting, my monitor is like super disgusting and i have no idea how to clean it. It sucks.

Scorch

Austria3371 Posts

December 18 2011 17:31 GMT

Apparently because the widescreen format fits better with the field of view of the human eye. The main shortcoming of widescreen formats, to me, is that user interfaces don't work very well on them. Because we write horizontally from left to right, UI design traditionally has menus on the top and bottom of the screen. That leaves a very skinny bar of actual content on a widescreen monitor.

Anyway, size does matter. I'm replacing one of my two 5:4 19" screens with a 16 : 9 27" screen for christmas.

Marcus420

Canada1923 Posts

December 18 2011 17:36 GMT

If you want the 1920 x 1200 then youll have to pay for it. Otherwise dont complain... because you make it sound like they dont exist anymore.

The Dell u2412 is fantastic. Its a computer monitor, thats why it doesnt have HDMI, you should use DVI or DP.

Xiron

Germany1233 Posts

December 18 2011 17:38 GMT

On December 19 2011 02:04 theBALLS wrote:
Today I wanna RANT about what mainstream media has done to gaming.

+ Show Spoiler +

It is TRAGIC.

In the past few years, we have seen a sharp decline in the number of 16:10 aspect ratio monitors available in the market.

I've been using a good ol' Dell 2407 Monitor for the past 6 years; and it is finally falling apart. I've been searching for the past couple of months, but I have yet to find a worthy successor to this awesome monitor.

Every manufacturer in the market is catering to the lameass FULL-HD 16

1920 x 1080 range of monitors. They are completely neglecting the good ol' 1920 x 1200 16:10 monitor market.

What's the craze about everything being Full-HD? Seriously? To me, games are meant to be played in 16:10. 16

is just so long; so skewy; I HATE it. I've tried gaming on 16

monitors and oh, it's such a pain in the dick. And the ass.

Now, I want to get myself a good 16:10 monitor. But NOOOOOOOOO, they have to come at such an insane premium as compared to their lameass 16

counterparts. All I want for Christmas is a good, reasonably priced 24" 16:10 monitor, and I can only find 2 decent screens available from Dell (U2410) and Asus (the ProArt monitor) which are apparently catered to the "Professional" crowd. Not even LED backlit and the colours would probably look too "oversaturated" for my professionally untrained eyes because of the insane colour gamut.

Now, where can I find a good LED backlit 24" 1920 x 1200 monitor (with HDMI) without having to fork out millions for one from Eizo or NEC, and not having to settle for some sub-par monitor like the Dell U2412 which does not even have HDMI input?!

Why? What is it with people's obsession with Full HD? Good grief give me back my 16:10 monitors.

Any suggestions for a monitor that suits my needs? Please help

It would be met with UTMOST appreciation.

Maybe you should edit out the smileys in your post, as it makes it look a lot less like a rant with all those

theBALLS

Singapore2935 Posts

December 18 2011 17:40 GMT

On December 19 2011 02:38 Xiron wrote:

Show nested quote +

Maybe you should edit out the smileys in your post, as it makes it look a lot less like a rant with all those

HAHAHA. Omg I just realised that myself.

theBALLS

Singapore2935 Posts

December 18 2011 17:42 GMT

Since it's like that... Should I just go 16

and learn to get used to it? Or save up a REALLLLY large sum of money or wait for a good 16:10?

skyR

Canada13817 Posts

December 18 2011 19:06 GMT

lolol complaining about price when owning a 2407...

You don't want a professional display yet you don't want a shit display... lol?

The irony kills me.

jimminy_kriket

Canada5529 Posts

December 18 2011 20:27 GMT

#10

Tech people always come off as such assholes sometimes