Question Large TV vs Ultra-Wide Monitors: horizontal vs vertical field of view

[Small_Town_Gamer]

The consensus seems to be that gaming on an ultra-wide monitor is more immersive due to having a larger horizontal field of view.

However, being used to gaming on a 48" TV, I can't get past the overall reduced size (smaller height) of the screen whenever I switch to an ultrawide monitor.

Are there any options to use a 48" (or similar size) TV or monitor with a 16:9 ratio, while increasing my vertical field of view (compared to an ultra-wide) instead of "losing" some horizontal field of view?

 

[drivinfast247]

This seems to tick your boxes. https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-45gx950a-b-gaming-monitor

 

[thestryker]

For the vast majority of gaming you're not going to get additional horizontal view without using an ultrawide aspect ratio. Sometimes there will be horizontal FoV, but generally speaking you'll run into a fishbowl experience on top of the additional viewable. One potential option is a TV with the ability to run varied aspect ratios then for specific games you wanted the ultrawide aspect ratio you'd have black bars at the top/bottom and go back to standard aspect ratio outside of that.

 

[Small_Town_Gamer]

...One potential option is a TV with the ability to run varied aspect ratios then for specific games you wanted the ultrawide aspect ratio you'd have black bars at the top/bottom and go back to standard aspect ratio outside of that.

So, on a 16:9 monitor, if I want the horizontal field of view that an ultrawide offers, without any stretching of the screen image, I must have black bars at the top & bottom?

There is no way to achieve that horizontal FOV, but increase my vertical FOV instead of having the black bars?

 

[thestryker]

So, on a 16:9 monitor, if I want the horizontal field of view that an ultrawide offers, without any stretching of the screen image, I must have black bars at the top & bottom?

There is no way to achieve that horizontal FOV, but increase my vertical FOV instead of having the black bars?

I'm not aware of any games that would allow such a thing. The vast majority of games are fixed on either the horizontal or vertical axis. At the end of the day of the developers were just going to give more screen space they'd just give more screen space.

There may be mods for some games that could do what you want, but it would only work for games capable of expanding both vertical and horizontal depending on aspect ratio. Without modding your only option would be forcing an ultrawide aspect ratio at full screen and playing with FoV settings to see if you could compensate for the stretching but I doubt it would work.