Widescreen Notebooks Review
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THG tested three widescreen notebooks from Acer, Dell and Gateway to see if they are really worth their bucks.
The real advantage of notebooks with a widescreen display - which is not immediately obvious at first - is that they make widescreen formats with ratios of 1.6:1 or greater correspond better with users' natural field of view. DVD movies, for example, can be played on displays with an aspect ratio of 1.6:1 without an irritating black strip going across the upper and lower sections of the screen. Movies are produced in formats with aspect ratios of 1.85:1 (widescreen) or 2.35:1 (CinemaScope)..
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