In '08 or so I bought a Viewsonic 19" HDTV-monitor. I needed a small flat TV to go in a limited space. Upon delivery and setting it up I noticed the screen wasn't actually 16:9 it was 16:10, about an inch too tall for proper aspect ratio. And what did they do? They squeezed 16:9 video to make it fit, so everything was squeezed horizontally and stretched vertically with just enough geometric distortion to bug the hell out of me. There was no setting to have it letterboxed on the top and bottom a bit, or overscan on the sides to kill the geometric distortion. Complained to Viewsonic, they said that I shouldn't be noticing it! Eventually after multiple emails back-and-forth they swapped for a "refurb'ed" 22" that did have the proper 16:9 ratio, but the color balance especially black to white gray scale was way too blue in the low lights. Anyway I sold that to someone who thought it looked great, and bought a little 19" Samsung that had the same 16:10 screen but compensated for it by either letterboxing top-bottom or overscanning the sides for full screen user selectable, and there is no geometric distortion. Tracks gray scale very accurately too. Viewsonic used to make some pretty good CRT computer monitors as I recall...
