<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 30 Apr 2007, at 16:05, Peter A. Daly wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">...</FONT><BR>I think I've decided to go the LCD computer monitor route rather than the LCD TV route.  We watch exclusively (right now) SD recorded from TV content. <BR><BR>Budget wise, it looks like a 22" widescreen or 20" (normal) display is the choice it's coming down to.<BR><BR>Would I be better off with a 20" 4:3 display instead of a widescreen?  The 22" widescreen seems like the obvious choice on the surface, but since I mostly watch SD content, would I be better off with the 4:3 20"? <BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>This has got to be entirely your choice. Widescreen viewing is important to me, and I find letterboxed movies insufferably small on quite adequately-sized 4:3 screens.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Basically, do the maths on viewable area against price.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You may find the table on page 2 of this document helpful:</DIV><DIV>  PDF:</DIV><DIV>    &lt;<A href="http://www.necdisplay.com/support/css/Techlibrary/whitepaper_measuring_screensize.pdf">http://www.necdisplay.com/support/css/Techlibrary/whitepaper_measuring_screensize.pdf</A>&gt;</DIV><DIV>  Google's HTML cache:</DIV><DIV>     &lt;<A href="http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:EQkHJ3ZS0VwJ:www.necdisplay.com/support/css/Techlibrary/whitepaper_measuring_screensize.pdf">http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:EQkHJ3ZS0VwJ:www.necdisplay.com/support/css/Techlibrary/whitepaper_measuring_screensize.pdf</A>&gt;</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Stroller.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>