Questions About Wide Screen Monitors

in short it depends what you mean by affordable. my own one cost me £672. crazy but hell i was in the mood.

if you get one like mine, a dell 24" then yes they can display other res's but either stretched across the screen which some people don't ind others do, you can stretch it while maintaining aspect ratio which leaves black borders or you can do what i usually do and use 1:1 pixel ratio which does not use interpolation or blending or pixels but can leave black borders around the image if the res is too low.

for info on games compatablity check here www.widescreengamingforums.com

dead pixels on a screen this size would be very hard to notice. if you ahd a big cluster then maybe but you could return it if it had them.

too much IMO is made of response times. unless you are hyper sensitive to ghosting then you won't notice any. tbh i always think it is an old problem found on early LCD's but i suppose some are better than others.

my monitor has a 16ms black to black advertised response times which is more likely in the 20's and i don't notice any.

IMO, although not always easy to do i advise actually seeing the monitor your wanting to buy in person and getting a feel for it.