Recently I’ve been looking around at new monitors. I like my 17″ CRT, but it takes up a lot of space, and it’s quite old. So I think it’s time for a new one.

However, having spent a lot of time looking at new monitors, I’ve noticed that the plauge of the widescreen is dominating the computer market, just like it has with the TV market.

Sure, widescreen is nice, and I see the point in it. However, I like to have a square screen; especially when gaming.

Widescreen tends to make people look fatter and stuff on TV, and it takes a little while to get used to.

When doing things like video editing and design with Flash and Photoshop then more width is very useful, but then, so is more height. However, when you’re playing a video game, I find it’s better to have a square screen.

I just find it annoying that widescreen displays have to completely dominate the market. What about those of us who don’t want widescreen? What do we do? It’d be alright if it was 50:50 or something, but it’s not.

Stupid widescreen.