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Pros
* Wide format is well suited to office multi-tasking, allowing the user to run several applications side by side, particularly on larger displays with a wide horizontal resolution (e.g. 1920 x 1200)
* Since most modern DVDs and TV shows are in a widescreen format, these types of displays are optimal for their playback on a computer.
* A widescreen LCD can display more columns in a spreadsheet.
Cons
* A 16:10 monitor with the same diagonal size has 6.8% less area, meaning that you buy less screen space in total. A 16:9 monitor with the same diagonal size has 12.3% less area than standard aspect ratio display.
* Most office applications, such as word processing, and spreadsheet, do not benefit from the widescreen format of the display. The extra width of the display does not allow more of a vertical document to be shown. Moreover, most windows applications are "toolbar happy": for instance, the menu, toolbar, window header, and status bar consume 4 lines in the Mozilla browser. Tabs add yet one more. The useful document window is severely height challenged, making reading a web page on a widescreen a painful experience .
* Some older graphics controllers or video drivers are not capable of common widescreen resolutions. If a traditional 4:3 monitor is replaced with a widescreen monitor on a computer with one of these graphics controllers, the user may be unable to find a usable resolution setting in which the graphics are not stretched horizontally. Video driver updates may add support for widescreen resolutions, but this is not always the case. Alternatives include installing a newer card that supports widescreen resolutions or configuring the widescreen monitor to not stretch images that are not in a widescreen format.
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