One widescreen or dual standard?

One widescreen or dual standard?

  • One widescreen

    Votes: 15 65.2%

  • Dual standard

    Votes: 5 21.7%

  • Other

    Votes: 3 13.0%
  • Total voters
    23
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GJSNeptune

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I've been using a 19" LCD with a 15" LCD as a secondary display. The 15" sucks, so I want a new monitor. The 19" isn't the greatest either. It has some significant backlight bleed and ghosting. I like to game, but I also need great colors. Movies aren't a big deal 'cause I have a 40" LCD HDTV in the living room.

I'm not a big fan of the bezel gap, although it's something I've gotten used to. I'm very particular about window positions, and I like to extend the side-edges of windows even farther (off the screen). I found that if my secondary display is on the right side, I always overshoot scrollbars with my cursor, which got annoying fast. Even with the secondary on the left side, I often overshot my cursor.

Which widescreen size is the same height as a 19" standard screen?

I'm looking at the LG W2252TQTF. Seems to be highly recommended with a great price. I would then make my 19" a secondary monitor to display Winamp, Thunderbird, and maybe AIM.

For people who've experienced both, which setup do you prefer? One big widescreen display (with a secondary), or dual standard displays?
 
Dual 4:3.

I have two Dell 2007FP monitors on my desktop and next to it is a Samsung 204T in Pivot connected to the docking system of my laptop. 20" 4:3 is a quite cheap way to get 1200 pixels vertical compared to 24" wide.

Dual wide is 32:10 :rolleyes:
 
I wouldn't be doing dual wide. It'll either be one widescreen display (with my 19" standard as secondary) or dual standard displays.

The reason I'm leaning towards widescreen is because I already have a 19" standard display that I'd prefer to keep. It was expensive when I got it, and now it probably wouldn't fetch even half of what I got it for.
 
if you play games you'll lose FPS on any second display. i have nothing else significant about which to comment
 
If you're big on using your PC for entertainment (movies, games) go for the single widescreen.

If you're big on productivity and doing work, get the dual fullscreen. The screen real estate you get on a big widescreen monitor is great for improving productivity, but I personally find multiple windows far easier to manage when the operating system creates multiple desktops. I try to separate my desktops so that all of my writing/coding is on one dedicated screen, and all of my reading/research is on another.
 
I do both. I like gaming, I like multimedia, but I like to write (and research) and work on web design projects.

Circuit City has the LG W2252TQTF (22" widescreen) for $277.54 out the door, and there's a CC down the street from me. I'll have my 19" LCD next to it as secondary.

Another hurdle is my desk. I'm using the longer part with the shelf as my main area to support multiple monitors. It's probably wide enough for two larger dual monitors and my 19", but I have my speakers (Klipsch ProMedia 2.1) on it as well. The satellites are too tall to go under the shelf. A large widescreen plus my 19" would probably fit though.

What duals would you recommend?
 
Other. If the choice is absolutely only dual standards or a single wide, then:

For play (games, movies): Single widescreen.
For Work only : Dual or triple Standard Screens FTMFW.
For both : Single Widescreen.

For my gaming rig, I run a 28" Hannspree widescreen. For my workstation, dual NEC 20" standard IPS screens for images flanking a single Samsung 226bw S-panel 22" widescreen for documents / web pages. Works fanfuckingtastic.
 
I have a 24" widescreen main and my laptop's 15.4" as secondary. When I play games, only the main screen get used, same for movies.

I keep Outlook, MSN, winamp, etc, on the secondary screen.

This is a great setup, keep your 19" as secondary and get a good non-TN 24" or more.
 
A non-TN isn't in my budget, nor is a 24". The $280 LG is as much as I'd like to spend.
 
GJSNeptune said:
I do both. I like gaming, I like multimedia, but I like to write (and research) and work on web design projects.

Circuit City has the LG W2252TQTF (22" widescreen) for $277.54 out the door, and there's a CC down the street from me. I'll have my 19" LCD next to it as secondary.

Another hurdle is my desk. I'm using the longer part with the shelf as my main area to support multiple monitors. It's probably wide enough for two larger dual monitors and my 19", but I have my speakers (Klipsch ProMedia 2.1) on it as well. The satellites are too tall to go under the shelf. A large widescreen plus my 19" would probably fit though.

What duals would you recommend?
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What's your primary purpose? For me work generally comes first, but I did want something that could double-up as a good screen for my 360. Ive been using a laptop for so long that I've become accustomed to widescreen monitors for work, and I also needed a solution that could double up and work with my 360.

Had it not been for the 360, I would have gone dual 20inch fullscreens. I'd simply disable the secondary monitor while gaming.
 
Primary is work, but I do game when I have the chance. The trouble with dual monitors is that I'll then have three displays.
 
It's so bad the westinghouse and SOYO 24" s-pva are out of production. they were around 280$
 
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