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Originally Posted by Jellby
Not everyone wants to see movies in the computer, yet panoramic monitors have pretty much replaced 4:3 screens. It's sad, but "not everyone" are often irrelevant to market.
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and the only reason for that was to make the displays in 16:9 laptops and even the smaller desktop displays (<=17") sound like the screens were actually larger than their 4:3 counterparts. It is purely because of marketing not because people prefer the 16:9 format in a screen on a laptop or the old standard 14"-15" desktop display.
Sure once you get into 20" or larger a 16:9 is really not bad at all, in fact it's nice to have things laid out more horizontally but under that and the screen just does not have the physical dimensions to really fit a good workflow.
Don't assume because people still buy these displays it equates with preferring them. People have no other options, just as with it being next to impossible to find a non-high gloss display anymore.