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Originally Posted by DoolittleRaider
Generally I'm still not clear on advantages of 16:10 versus 16:9 monitors and aspect ratios, vis-a-vis Gaming.
I do watch *avi movies/TVepisodes, DVD ripped movies, on my PC Monitor. Would it matter in any way whether I had a 16:9 or a 16:10 native resolution Monitor?
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Hm, I don't play those games. I do play a lot of games, but they tend to be older games than those.
I think the thing about monitors and games is, the smaller the resolution of the monitor, the easier it is for graphics cards to draw images on it.
If all you cared about was games, the smaller the resolution the better (within limits: 800 * 600 was better for weak graphics cards, but boy was it ugly, but even that was much better than 640 * 480). However, if you want to look at text, then the more depth you have, the better. On the other hand, if you want only to look at cinema movies, then the width is paramount, up to a certain point, for movies the extra depth of a 1920 * 1200 screen is wasted. For old TV shows, the aspect ratio was 4:3, and height becomes an advantage. You tube movies were often in 4(width):3(height), and probably looked bad full screen on any size screen, but then again I'm judging that on animated GIFs which are all I've seen.
In the end, you have to decide what matters to you.