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Result for your misspelled word: widekcreen
Don't worry, many people misspell widescreen that way. The word widescreen is easy to be mistaken while typing.
A widescreen image is a film, computer or television image with a wider and shorter aspect ratio than the standard Academy frame developed during the classical Hollywood cinema era. Silent film was projected at a ratio of four units wide to three units tall, often expressed as 4:3 or 1.33:1. The addition of sound-on-film soundtracks and a thicker frame line in order to hide physical splices in prints caused the frame dimensions to standardize by 1932 to Academy format, which is actually 1.37 but often erroneously called 1.33.
Widescreen computer displays
Recently, a great number of widescreen format monitors have been introduced to the market. Many manufacturers have practically abandoned the traditional 4:3 format, instead opting to manufacture 16:10 models.
A 16:10 monitor with the same diagonal size as a 4:3 monitor has 6.8% less area. A 16:9 monitor with the same diagonal size has 12.3% less area than a 4:3 monitor.
There are both advantages and disadvantages to wide screen computer displays:[4]
Pros
- Since many modern DVDs and some TV shows are in a widescreen format, these types of displays are optimal for their playback on a computer.
- A widescreen display is closer to the aspect ratio of a typical keyboard than a 4:3 display (important for a laptop, where overall surface area for the device is limited)
- Some widescreen displays, often a bit more expensive, are equipped with a base that allows the screen to be rotated 90 degrees either way (and an automatic counter-rotation of the displayed picture). This actually gives a larger vertical area to work with, than with an older-type 4:3 monitor.
Cons
- Computer programs often have many toolbars, which take precious vertical space. Many web pages (such as http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb677173.aspx) aggravate the issue even more by taking half of the vertical space for tabs and the header. Eventually only a half of the page is scrollable, and the reading experience suffers.
- Some old non-windowed programs, mostly computer games, are designed for a fullscreen monitor; using such programs on a widescreen monitor typically causes them to become deformed. Likewise, some older graphics controllers or video drivers are not capable of common widescreen resolutions. If a traditional 4:3 monitor is replaced with a widescreen monitor on a computer with one of these graphics controllers, the user may be unable to find a usable resolution setting in which the graphics are not stretched horizontally.
Conversion
For word processing and office type applications, vertical measurement can be more important than diagonal measurement when determining size requirements. When monitors are sold the quoted size is the diagonal measurement of the display area. Because of the different ratio, a 16:10 monitor will have a smaller vertical size than a 4:3 monitor of the same advertised size. To find the diagonal measurement of widescreen monitor that would have the same vertical measurement as a known 4:3 monitor, you must multiply the diagonal measurement of the 4:3 monitor by 1.173.
For example to have the same vertical height as a 4:3 19" monitor, a 16:10 widescreen monitor would need to be (19" x 1.173 ) = 22.285".
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