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 ...

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; ...

Not all monitors are created equal. They come in different display specifications that match every need. For casual use, you could get away with just the standard 16:9 monitors. They're just right for ...

The majority of modern displays use a widescreen resolution by default, but older monitors -- particularly popular cathode-ray tube, or CRT, monitors -- use a standard resolution. Although both ...

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 ...

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 ...

Turning a game like Super Mario World for SNES into a widescreen game is not a small task, but [Vitor Vilela] accomplished just that. [Vitor] has a long list of incredible patches such as optimizing ...

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 ...