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8730564 No.8730564 [Reply] [Original]

Why doesn't anyone make 4:3 monitors bigger than 19" anymore? You'd think with all the people into retro gaming now there'd be a market for bigger 4:3 screens.

>> No.8730606
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>>8730564
>You'd think
>Doesn't think

>> No.8730634

I use a 30" 16:10 monitor as my desktop monitor. It is 26.5" as a 4:3 monitor.

>> No.8730645

I get why someone might want a CRT for retro gaming, but why would you need a flat modern monitor in 4:3? Does it bother you to see black bars on the sides?

>> No.8730653

>>8730645
it bothers me. hated black bars ever since i played FEAR on my first 1920x1080 monitor.

>> No.8730660

>>8730653
If it really bothers you build a little wooden case and a bezel to mask the blacked out parts.

>> No.8730665

>>8730660
better yet, why dont you just take a sharpie and black out everything on the top and bottom of your glasses?
it really adds to the cinematic experience.

>> No.8730736

Because there's no market for it. Thankfully, these days you can get 43" 4k screens for not a lot more than you'd pay for a few 24" 1080p screens in an array, and 43" 16:9 is a 35" 4:3 monitor. Just ignore the black bars.

>> No.8730759

Are there any 4:3 OLEDs?

>> No.8730762

>>8730759
Maybe on some tablet.

>> No.8730765

>>8730665
Why are black bars such a giant bother to you anyway? Unless you blast the image directly to your retina there's going to be stuff around the image.

>> No.8730773

>>8730765
fullscreen is superior because it's MORE on the same screen.

>> No.8730781

>>8730773
widescreen = fullscreen with extra on the sides

>> No.8730782

>>8730564
Marketing 101. Your panel has to be custom made from screensize to controller hardware since all panels are widescreen these days. If your monitor fails to deliver on the best monitor for retro premise, customers will buy cheaper widescreen monitors instead.

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With ultrawide monitors becoming popular I could see them making a comeback. LG announced that they are releasing a 16:18 32inch monitor.

>> No.8731030

>>8731021
There is at least one person on earth that is going to buy this expensive monitor to emulate DS games.

>> No.8731059

>>8730653
t.late-2000s exec
>the fuck is this black shit, get it out of there
>cropping what? nobody gives a fuck, just make it full screen, jesus

>> No.8731060

>>8731030
Why bother? You can just flip your monitor vertically.

>> No.8731075

>>8731060
I know anon, I am just describing a hypothetical retard

>> No.8731125

>>8730765
>Why are black bars such a giant bother to you anyway?
Stage 4 terminal autism and a desperate need to fit in with the grownups.

>> No.8731194

>>8730564
>You'd think with all the people into retro gaming now there'd be a market for bigger 4:3 screens.
Dumb STUPID mcdumbdumb poop post. IDIOT! *poops* AAAHH STINKY POST MAN

>> No.8731198

>>8730564
>You'd think with all the people into retro gaming now
like 100 persons worldwide?

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>mfw still using my mid-2000s flat screen 4:3
I'm so fucking scared it's going to die. I hate 16:9 screens.

>> No.8731242

>>8731059
>16:9 movie letterboxed for 4:3
>letterboxed 4:3 image letterboxed again for 16:9
>letterboxed letterboxed 16:9 image letterboxed again for 4:3
>black bars on all sides of the screen even in 4:3
good times

>> No.8731265

>>8731242
>16:9 movie letterboxed for 4:3
That would be pillarboxed, not letterboxed.

>> No.8731268

>>8730564
no one wants to play on that laggy lcd with horrible pixel-density

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8731364

>https://www.dell.com/ae/business/p/dell-2007fp/pd
Bought this based on some research and opinions. Anyone else used these before?

>> No.8731471

>>8731060
>>8731075
A person would do this with the sole intent of saying how its somehow designed for it and a better experience.

They're like vegans. They don't actually care about the thing. They are so devoid of personality these are the types of things what they latch onto and have to tell everyone else to do the thing they're doing as a means to validate their stupid fucking decision

>> No.8731512

>>8730564
Those 1280x1024 LCDs are 5:4, not 4:3.

>> No.8731557 [DELETED] 

>>8730564
It would be really cool if they made a 30+ inch OLED in 4:3. That’s more feasible than bringing CRTs back and shaders would look perfect on them.
Never gonna happen though, at least extremely unlikely.
OLED TVs are slowly coming down in price at least. How long does LG have the patent for?

>> No.8731630

>>8731364
I have the IPS model, it's good but it gets hot, there's some trails when dark pixels move, strong IPS purple glow, the black levels and contrast is better than modern Dell panels, color gamut is not good but there's no dithering or banding. I wouldn't use it for retro gaming, there's some funny business when using the VGA cable, the input has less lag but the picture is darker.

>> No.8732137

>>8730781
i'm on a widescreen monitor. last i checked most modern games run in fullscreen 1920x1080.

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>>8731265
um, sweaty...

>> No.8732672

>>8730564
Aren’t IPads 4:3
Why not use that?

>> No.8732675

>>8731242
>16:9 image in the center of screen with 4:3 menus
SOVLRLOAD

>> No.8732690

>>8732137
1920x1080 is widescreen not fullscreen

>> No.8732702

I actually wish the industry would move back to 16:10, or at the very least, 19:10 like real 4k (4096x2160)

but retro wise, if I want 4:3 I'll just stick to a CRT honestly

>> No.8732706

Why do you need a huge monitor to play games with a resolution of 320x240 or less

>> No.8732712

>>8732137
you can make most old games run in 16:9 nowadays, and more often than not on emulators too. it's really only 2D stuff or weird engines that can't

>> No.8732717

>>8731021
I like the look of that thing. I was thinking about going in for an ultrawide but that might be even better for my purposes.

>> No.8732728

>>8732706
On LCD's you don't play at 320x240 you play at a multiple of that.

>> No.8732753

I want a 4:3 19" flat screen with HDMI

>> No.8732795

>>8730564
>anyone make 4:3 monitors bigger than 19" anymore

I haven't even seen new 4:3 monitors, just used ones

>> No.8732805

>>8731557
>How long does LG have the patent for?
It actually doesn't matter since samsung is now making QD-OLEDs and the flagship release models (dell, sony & samsung as of now) aren't that expensive.

>> No.8732810

>>8730564
only autists get triggered by black bars on sides that's why

>> No.8732843

>>8730564
>You'd think with all the people into retro gaming now there'd be a market for bigger 4:3 screens.
And you think this market overlaps so much with people who can't just play a windowed 4:3 on their normal monitor? You think that is such a huge market that they will open an entire new manafacturing line and take away resources being used to make monitors that are actually selling regularly?
Let me guess, you also don't know why they don't just make CRTs again, don't you?

>> No.8732898

>>8732843
Exactly, why don’t they just make some CRT in china or pakistan. The technology is there, probably would be a lot cheaper than 40 years ago. This just doesn’t make any sense. And dont tell me the market is small. They did things that were bought by literally several people ie. Exotic cars. CRT would be bought by hundreds of thousands retro enthusiasts around the world

>> No.8732992

>>8732898
>CRT would be bought by hundreds of thousands retro enthusiasts around the world
There are tens of thousands at best, and of those 99% are happy using LCDs, 1% want CRTs, and 1% of those want overpriced new CRTs when you can just get old ones for next to nothing.

>> No.8733182

>>8730564
Cause they're useless and inferior to 16:9

>> No.8734947

I have a 2009 iMac 24 inch 3ghz core 2 hd4850 plays up to GameCube well the screen is nice high resolution

>> No.8734957

>>8732898
>hundreds of thousands
People are throwing CRTs away in droves all the time.
Get real.