Widescreen height?

stubie_doo · 13 Oct 2006 at 00:04

I currently have a samsung 19inch tft and want to purchase a widescreen to sit alongside it in a duel monitor setup.

Ideally i would like a widescreen monitor that has a viewable are the same height vertically as my 19inch, the problem i have is that all sites state the size across the screen diagonally not the actual dimensions of the viewable area.

Any ideas what size widescreen i would need for the heights to match?

Zefan · 13 Oct 2006 at 00:08

http://tvcalculator.com/index.html?82303d6e3c852d49494ea1954c2be46c

Looks to me that you'll be needing 22".

stubie_doo · 13 Oct 2006 at 00:14

Cheers thats actually a pretty awesome little tool!

Spyhop · 13 Oct 2006 at 00:18

Oh my gee. That's a nice little tool.

Zefan · 13 Oct 2006 at 00:27

Stolen shamlessly from THIS thread :cool:

manoz · 13 Oct 2006 at 02:13

Remember to take the bezel into account too and you may have the need for a height adjustable stand

fish99 · 13 Oct 2006 at 02:27

Using that tool,, here's 22" 16:10 and 19" 5:4 next to each other-

http://tvcalculator.com/index.html?9124ea216e2376874590166ff5dd6ee3

Not perfect but a decent match.

Belly · 14 Oct 2006 at 09:58

Zefan said:
Stolen shamlessly from THIS thread

I Agree.

And the one below was stolen from the book "What the Actress really said to the Bishop"

wush said:
Oh my gee. That's a nice little tool.

Good Thread!

Kezmo · 14 Oct 2006 at 10:28

stubie_doo · 14 Oct 2006 at 13:36

Thanks for the replies, still considering getting a 19inch the same as the one i currently have.

Is widescreen really worth it as a 22 inch screen is more than double the cost of getting another 19inch the same as my current samsung.

The sceen i was looking at was the Samsung SM-225BW 22"

The main reason for the duel setup is for cad and 3dmax work but i dont know if i can justfy the massive extra cost for a little more screen real estate.

manoz · 14 Oct 2006 at 14:37

If your going to be using CAD then I don't think it going widescreen is worth it unless you want a 24" or above. If your going to be watching a lot of movies aswell then that's the only reason to go widescreen imo. CAD apps are better suited to square screen aswell I think.

Your better off spreading the app over 2 normal screens cos I'm sure they have a function in them that lets you do that.