as my title says, it is worth it? Would i get a "stretched" display? Otherwise it looks crap and i dont wanna get one. Wheels and dials will look oval instead of round...
Depends on what you want to do. Generally yes - even for gaming they're good. In all modern 3d games you'll get more "peripheral vision". Some older titles might have problems with 16:10 ratios but drivers usually have modes to compensate for that by chopping bits off instead of stretching.
If you mean specifically in LFS then: no, you don't get a stretched display - LFS has one of the best screen configuration systems seen in a game. You just get more screen real-estate on the sides so you can run a more informative/realistic FOV without sacrificing screen space.
They'll only look oval if you set it to a "square" resolution. Obviously if you use 1024x768 on a widescreen, those 1024 pixels will (probably) end up being stretched to fill the screen, so anything on the horizontal will be a bit longer. But if you use something like 1280x960 there are no extra pixels to fill so circles will remain circlular (although that explanation soudned better in my head)
Older games which don't support widescreen modes may end up looking a little squashed though, so if you play a lot of them you'll want to be careful.
jupp good ol tn panels and their usless verical range of round about 0.00001°
you might be allright it you set the monitor up some 10 meters away from you but for the price of the binoculars you could probably afford a proper panel
22" screens and aspect ratios. Don't get me started. Or I guess you already did.
But I'll keep it short:
1) if you want a 22" WS that doesn't mindlessly stretch every signal to 16:10, the hp w2207 is the only one that exists. (hard to believe, I know)
2) If you want the GPU driver to take care of scaling: don't get an ATI card.
3) If you want one that will connect to PS3, HD-DVD player, HDTV decoder etc. without distorting the image: there is none in existance! (the AR scaling setting of the w2207 doesn't work at 720p for some reason)
Apart from that the others are right, TN panels are really bad vertically. The image at the top looks quite different to the image in the middle because of the vertical distance from your eyes. And font rendering is also very bad on some screens. On w2207 for example cleartype is unuseable.
My recommendation: get a Dell 24" or 20". They're not TN and everything works as it should. Shame they don't make a 22".
Already tried it. Helps, but doesn't solve the problem.
And another thing I learned since my last post: the Dell 20" doesn't accept 50 Hz HDTV input (as in european DVB), only 60 Hz. So in summary: if you want a PC monitor that can display HDTV content: forget it! Nobody cares about it, even prad.de won't tell you about the problems.
From what I understand, 22" LCD's in general tend to be pretty crappy. That mostly comes down to the fact that they tend to use a TN panel and have a rather large pixel pitch. What you want is an IPS panel (not TN or PVA/MVA) or more specifically, S-IPS, AS-IPS, or even H-IPS (this is the most recent and expensive one as far as I can tell). It seems there are no 22" models that have this panel type, so you're stuck deciding between 20" or 23/24".
I feel your pain. My good 'ole Trinitron finally gave up the ghost and I'm stuck on an ancient 15" Gateway LCD as backup. I'd kill to have Sony's 24" WS CRT but that one's just not gonna happen. I'm thinking of going with a Samsung 20" WS. Anybody have any objections to this one?
(although that explanation soudned better in my head)
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