Another nail in the 4:3 ratio coffin...

[Whirled One]

I'm sure many of you have noticed how difficult it is getting these days to find a standard ratio (4:3) display. About the only new TVs with 4:3 screens are CRT sets, and those that remain are all positioned at the low-end of the price bracket. If you've shopped for an LCD computer monitor lately, you've probably seen how it has become more and more difficult to find one in standard 4:3 ratio-- it's all about "widescreen" nowadays. Buying a laptop computer and want a 4:3 display? Good luck with that. Sadly, it seems that one of the few remaining 4:3 laptops in production is no more -- as of a few days ago, no longer can you buy the standard-ratio 14.1" Thinkpad T61 -- Lenovo only offers the widescreen versions now. See:
http://forums.lenovo.com/lnv/board/m...thread.id=5487

It's especially sad when you consider that when IBM still ran things, they *only* offered the Thinkpad T-series in standard 4:3 screens even as other companies started to move to widescreen displays. Now the only standard-ratio notebook offered by Lenovo is the X61 subnotebook (XGA only). Dell still offers the Latitude D530 (the cheapest Latitude model) in standard ratio, but I can't seem to find any other 4:3 models still out there.

I realize that this is technically off-topic, but given the past discussion regarding standard 4:3 versus 16:9 display formats, I figure this might be of interest to some folks.