The extra screen space seemed like a valuable thing to have, and games certainly appeared much larger. Strangely I didn’t expect it to be inferior. This was in addition to the loss of sharpness due to the fact that fewer pixels had been spread over a larger area, making the screen feel at an even greater disadvantage. Admittedly it was nice to get rid of the horizontal black lines when watching 1080p movies, but apart from this, even having gotten used to the extra size (which was quite immersive in games it has to be said) I still pined to switch back to the 24in screen. These are disadvantages that enthusiasts have been crowing about for some time, but having used a larger 27in 16:9 monitor, compared to the seemingly much smaller 24in 16:10 for a few weeks and just having switched back, do you know what I realised?Ĭlick to enlarge - a 24in 16:10 monitor offers far more vertical screen space than a 16:9 monitor without losing horizontal resolutionĮven with an extra three inches of diagonal screen space (24in vs 27in) the 27in monitor simply didn't feel as big. This has real knock-on effects when it comes to viewing photos or webpages, the latter requiring a lot more scrolling for example, while you end up with a narrower field of vision in games too. As you can see from the above resolutions, you lose a considerable amount of vertical screen real-estate with 16:9 compared to 16:10. This is to cut production costs by tying them in with flatscreen TV manufacturing which also sports a 16:9 aspect ratio. If you're familiar with aspect ratios, you'll probably know about the fact that in the last four or so years, monitors have switched from being predominately 16:10 (typically 1,680 x 1,050 or 1,920 x 1,200) to 16:9 (usually 1,600 x 900 or 1,920 x 1,080). However, key to the point of this article is the middle man - a 24in monitor with a resolution of 1,920 x 1,200 - an aspect ratio of 16:10. They range from several 23in 1,920 x 1,080 models to a 27in screen of the same resolution - all 16:9 aspect ratios of course. I've been lucky enough in the last couple of months to have three of the latest IPS monitors sitting on my desk for weeks at a time.
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