Comments on: Monitors on My Mind, I need a Square Monitor

By: Sam Nova

Sam Nova — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:51:16 +0000

Titch: Most newer games would (should) work correctly with widescreen but yeah, it is an issue with some games.

By: Titch

Titch — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:39:02 +0000

I hate wide screen monitors, I’m an avid gamer and find that when you go full screen all that happens is the image is just deformed – stretched (eg the charaters just look fatter) and is of putting, so I have the play in window modes to keep everything in shape, hence it feels like viewing on a smaller monitor.

Give Me A Square Monitor any day.

By: Sam Nova

Sam Nova — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:00:00 +0000

Bill, even with widescreens it should be possible to show the circles correct.. IF the pixels are square, if the resolution is widescreen or not should not matter, as long as the resolution selected gives square pixels (native pixel size on the tft panels). But to be honest, I don’t know if the pixels are square or not :(

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:31:10 +0000

We use AutoCAD where it is very important to see cirles as circles. these wide sreen jobs just can not be brought into a square resolution. I am looking for a square monitor so I see circles not elipses.

By: JoWo

JoWo — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:35:03 +0000

I have in mind a square touchscreen, about 24″ x 24″. This would be used as a board to be laid flat on a coffee table. There would be a plethora of available board games such as Monopoly, Scrabble, Risk, Clue/Cluedo etc. It would come with plastic devices that could be laid over “your” section of the board to hide such things as your letters in Scrabble, your clues in Cluedo. I think it would be a winner!

By: Nelly

Nelly — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:51:42 +0000

my lcd monitor just died, it was a square one, I’ve been looking for one on the Internet and several stores, manufacturers, etc… Unbelieveble, I cannot find a square one, all I find is widescreens, we had them at work and they sux, where did the old good days go? :(

By: jaffamuffin

jaffamuffin — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:18:31 +0000

Nice setup.
I have a 1600×1200 in portrait, giving 1220×1600, and a 24″ CRT giving 1920×1200. It’s pretty sweet aswell. Much more useable, I have portrait for documents and landscape for photo editing / film / games etc.

Anything above 1200/1280 in width just results in wasted space at the side as most web pages aren’t designed for that width.

A 30″ 2560×1200 with 2x portrait 1200×1600 at each side would be sweet as well.

I await a widescreen monitor with 1920 height to allow 2x 24″ portarit at each side. :)

By: BOB RUSSELL

BOB RUSSELL — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:00:48 +0000

wide screens suck. a squre screen is perfect for any type of autocad operation. have you ever seen the cruddy view of a building or ductwork on a wide screen?
it sux. The only reason to ever go wide was for entrepreneurs to make a buck off of the blithering idiots of the world. you see next they will sell square screened monitors for more than the wide screens. All just a marketing ploy for blitherings. I still have my 24″ square flat screen, and it can view wide screen with the correct resolution.

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:32:56 +0000

I have been looking for a screen monitor for ages, I have a 20″ screen but would like to upsize, BUt NOWHERE can I find a screen, which is far better the these wide screen jobs.

By: Roberto

Roberto — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:20:13 +0000

I agree, I hate wide screen and would love a 2k x 2k (or 1200 x 1200 at least) square monitor.
I am an amateur photographer, I shoot more vertical than horizontal images for portrait and architecture, and they are forced to appear smaller than the horizontal ones. At present I’m using two crt’s, one of them in portrait mode, but I need to split my slideshows in two.