When you upgrade your office computer with a widescreen display, Windows usually detects the new monitor and adjusts the video resolution to accommodate the wider shape of the screen. But when you end ...

Last year, something remarkable happened in the world of cinema. Blockbuster Video, the country’s dominant rental chain, announced that from that point on it officially preferred widescreen DVDs to ...

I hope this post will be redundant to most people, but I'm writing it because even after all this time, there seems to be some confusion. A few months back, I was in the electronics department of ...

It’s now the norm for us to watch TV programmes and films in our homes on widescreen displays. Yet this has been a norm for less than a decade now, in spite of widescreen TVs being around a lot longer ...

Someone introduced us to widescreen videos on VHS. These videos presented the full picture as you saw it in the theater, but did so on our 4:3 (non-widescreen) televisions. Later, DVD came along; ...

The majority of modern displays use a widescreen resolution by default, but older monitors -- particularly popular cathode-ray tube, or CRT, monitors -- use a standard resolution. Although both ...

It's a passionate subject among home video lovers. I've seen religious wars and even opposing British soccer fans that were tamer than the heated discussions I've witnessed about the whole ...

The ThinkPad T60 Widescreen gives you all the lovable features of a ThinkPad T60, but with a wider, 15.4-inch screen—and the weight isn't a burden either. Going wide gives you both roomier palm rests ...

Super Mario World Widescreen has been set for launch ‘before E3 2021’ and will allow you to play the retro side-scroller in 16:9 aspect ratio – a big difference from its original 4:3 view. What if ...

Ever watch a movie, and get distracted by the black bars at the top and bottom of the screen? Ever wonder what they are, and why they're different sizes? Wasn't the switch to "widescreen" TVs supposed ...

In FPS titles, the field of view slider (FOV) is king. Gamers need to modify their FOV to get the view that best suits them, but sometimes developers forget to implement this crucial aspect. When that ...