flat or wide

[noseyno]

Whats the difference between flat and wide screens on a TV. Which one do you recommend

[AliFlump]

Flat Screen just means the screen is flat as opposed to being slightly rounded like on most older TV's.

Widescreen means it is wider than it is taller , so they can be both at the sametime

Here's an example

http://www.3wisemonkeys.co.uk/proddet.jsp?id=1310&cat=42

[theren_911]

You can have a Flat screen TV with is basically just a flat surface giving a better viewing angle.

You can have a flat panel TV, which can be hung on the wall.

Definately get a widescreen, as it's becoming a standard for most broadcasts and you'll be missing half the picture without it!

[Toureman]

As nobody has answered your question yet.....

All Flat screens are wide so it is really an impossible question to answer!

Flat screens are more expensive for hardly any advantage, it just makes the picture easier to see when viewed from an acute angle which most people do not do.

I would reccomend a normal widescreen TV because they are a lot cheaper but most TV makers only do the flat screen wide TVs now, more profit for them!

[pagey]

not all flat screens are wide???!!!!

Normal 'shape' screens have a 4:3 width to height ratio

Widescreens have a 16:9 ratio screen

'Flatscreen' often refers to an older-style cathode ray tube television with a particularly, or completely flat screen. It also, now, refers to plasma or LDC screens which use a screen that requires much less physical depth.