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Given the much lower LCD monitor prices now and the Move to 16/9 definition of TV screens the next logical hardware move would IMHO to be 16/9 ratio monitors ..
After all with the number of Tv set top surf boxes increasing ..more and more people are now landing on sites made for old style image ratios ....with 16/9 screens from their living rooms ..
The way I see it this is likely to mean that someday very soon there will be an explosion in the need for site design as sites ( at over 4 billion pages indexed just by "g" ) have to be "reformated" to fit the space ....not to mention all the software that will need remaking to take into account the coming format ..
I suspect the inevitable shift in the format we will use ( far far greater than the effect of mobile phones surfers ) will radically affect all of us from designers to programmers , marketeers , seo etc ...
Any one seen a 16/9 format monitor yet ....
However, having used Macs for many years (up until about 8 years ago, only Macs, now I still prefer Macs when I can use one) screens came in every size and aspect ratio. When I left a former employer that used Macs each desk had a different shape screen. I had a two page, the person in the next cubical had a one page portrait (8.5" wide, 11" tall), another had a monitor that he could lay on its side and it would switch (there was a position sensor inside) from a portrait to a widescreen monitor.
I am looking for a laptop for my kid about to go to college, it appears that the laptops are getting wider.
Just looking at the screen sizes from my web site statistics I see that about 85% have a ratio of 1.25 or 1.333 (16/9 = 1.78). But there aer some that are 3200x1200 which is 16 to 6 or 2.667. Really wide screen.
As far as I am concerned, when I buy I new desktop LCD monitor I want a wall sized screen, maybe 8 x 5 FEET. Still dreaming. :-}
