Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 25th Oct 2007 03:01 UTC, submitted by Farhad Shakiba
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2005-08-07
Heh! Oh widescreens are scams alright, but just not the way you're thinking of. Look at the biggest feature from Vista-- the sidebar. Now try to remember back when IE4.0 first came out, and Microsoft contracted with Disney and all sorts of other advertisers to sell our desktops as their own personal billboards...
Yup! IMHO the main reason for the decision to go 'widescreen' was so the media companies can exploit the fact we're used to standard displays to place advertising and other types of crap on the sides of the screen, while still giving us the "standard" display we're used to. You already see it happening with the little mini-ads the TV networks run over the top of their TV shows....
--bornagainpenguin