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Sep. 6th, 2007 02:24 pmWill someone explain to me what the hell the point of a widescreen monitor is? What, do they just look cool? Do you like it when people look at your screen and say 'Oooh, that's a widescreen'? Does it compensate for your feelings of tech inadequacy or something?
Oh, so you want to watch movies on it? Why can't you do that on a standard monitor? Oh no, you can't deal with having those empty spaces above and below the movie! It looks like it's broken! Instead, everyone has to spend obscene amounts of money designing applications, games, operating system components, and hardware, not to mention making we techs tear our hair out trying to make machines that have any of the above in a version that's too old for the new ratio play nice, just to make those little bars go away at the top and bottom of your movie that you shouldn't be watching on a business model laptop or monitor anyway! Thanks. I hope you're pleased with yourself.
I just spent half an hour of my life that I'm never getting back trying to make a widescreen monitor work on my system without blurring the damn text beyond readability. Yeah, that's a really nice trade off so you can play the Spongebob Squarepants movie for your kid on your supposed work laptop without the little empty bars.
I have RCA CED videodiscs from nineteen seventy-fucking-seven that have a warning on them to tell you that, no, your TV isn't broken and yes, widescreen formatted content is supposed to look like that. You've had thirty years guys; you should have figured this out by now.
Oh, so you want to watch movies on it? Why can't you do that on a standard monitor? Oh no, you can't deal with having those empty spaces above and below the movie! It looks like it's broken! Instead, everyone has to spend obscene amounts of money designing applications, games, operating system components, and hardware, not to mention making we techs tear our hair out trying to make machines that have any of the above in a version that's too old for the new ratio play nice, just to make those little bars go away at the top and bottom of your movie that you shouldn't be watching on a business model laptop or monitor anyway! Thanks. I hope you're pleased with yourself.
I just spent half an hour of my life that I'm never getting back trying to make a widescreen monitor work on my system without blurring the damn text beyond readability. Yeah, that's a really nice trade off so you can play the Spongebob Squarepants movie for your kid on your supposed work laptop without the little empty bars.
I have RCA CED videodiscs from nineteen seventy-fucking-seven that have a warning on them to tell you that, no, your TV isn't broken and yes, widescreen formatted content is supposed to look like that. You've had thirty years guys; you should have figured this out by now.
