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lucidium said:
curl-6 said:

Around when did monitors go widescreen and PC gaming shift to literal 1080p?

Mid 2002 was when the first 1080p monitors using LCD appeared, there were a couple widescreen CRT monstrosities, but in general people stuck with CRTs until the price of LCD monitors started to fall around 2004, 4:3 was still the norm for LCD up until late 2005 with higher end displays sporting 16:9, wasnt until late 2006 that people started to adopt 1080p lcd in larger numbers because at that point they were just starting to shift in to affordability.


Yeah, I think I remember first game benchmarks sites have started using 1920x1200 and 2560x1600 sometime during 2006.

I remember having 19' Samsung 4:3 CRT around that time which was able to pull that silly 1920x1440 resolution...everything was so damn small :)