4:3 monitors. Do they still make them? Boo sucks to widescreen!

[czeshirecat]

I'm a software developer spending most my day coding.
I recently bought a new 23" HD monitor on reviews only, and although it's a great quality screen I didn't realize what "widescreen" actually meant when it comes down to using it mainly as a document viewer. My previous monitors were all 4:3.
Anyone who uses editors like Visual Studio know extra width is nice as the editor panel takes up 1/2 of it, so suggestions to rotate the screen by 90 degrees won't work comfortably with the narrow depth.
I'm finding it difficult to work with as I'm constantly needing to scroll up and down to refer to previous lines of code.
I decided to buy yet another monitor, 4:3 this time, but looking through vendor sites I could only find the occasional out of stock 1024*768, the rest seem to be wide-screen.
Does anyone else have the same problem? Anybody know who produces 22"+ 4:3 monitors?
Is that aspect ratio compatible with HD?

ps I've noticed the trend's moved towards widescreen for both TV and pc monitors and frankly it feels like a con. Rather than gaining width, you actually lose a chunk of height. I guess it's to keep prices down.

 

[ssddx]

the most common monitor resolution i would have to say is 1920x1080 (16:9) which is hd compatible. there are also 1920x1200 (16:10 i believe) which give you an extra 120px vertical but are still rather wide. i'm not taking into account the various lower resolution models you might come across.

most of the 4:3 monitors i've come across are either older models nib, refurbished older models, professional type displays or foreign-brands.

a great resolution for 4:3 was 1600x1200.... by doing a google search it netted a few results you might want to look at:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=1600x1200%20lcd%20monitor&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=1843l7500l0l7859l37l30l6l10l13l0l219l2097l1.10.3l14l0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbm=shop&source=og&sa=N&tab=wf

as for my suggestions? i love my old viewsonic vp201b 1600x1200. i saw they had a refurbished on listed on gshopping, maybe you can find one new-in-box:

http://www.google.com/search?q=viewsonic+vp201b&hl=en&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=1843l7500l0l7859l37l30l6l10l13l0l219l2097l1.10.3l14l0&um=1&tbo=u&tbm=shop&source=og&sa=N&tab=wf&oq=viewsonic+vp201b&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=1

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another option for you is to just by a matching monitor to the one you already have and to rotate it 90^ so that you have two side by side monitors. you can then have your program take up one screen (1/2 of total width as you stated before) and have the other program on the right side. if you have the desktop set to "span" it will all be continuous besides the bezel. you could also rotate one back to horizontal if you wanted to watch a movie when you're not working for full HD.

@ PS: its because 1920x1080 is considered HD. most monitors match this as viewing HD content on a monitor of the same resolution will look better than on a monitor (even higher res) of a different resolution.

 

[MagicPants]

Just check on newegg for 1600x1200

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824005169