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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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; ...

Widescreens on business laptops aren't a brand-new development, but they aren't ubiquitous, either. That said, demand for them doesn't appear to be declining. Last year, Lenovo announced the ThinkPad ...

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 ...

Apple yesterday announced the long-rumored 16-inch MacBook Pro — but what I really want now is a widescreen MacBook Pro. The machine the company did launch is an appealing one if you’re upgrading from ...

Widescreen TVs ruin non-widescreen movies Gone With the Wind, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, The Wizard of Oz, Snow White: These are just a few of the films that were shot in the classic 4:3 format. Anyone ...

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 ...

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 ...