> "Widescreen LCDs are easier to make."
>
> Um, WTF? Why would *that* be??

I can think of a few reasons, but none significant enough to actually make a 
comment like that.  For the backlight it's better to have a longer edge to 
inject the light, it's more efficient.  For the electrical design having a 
longer edge to make connections is better, plus having a shorter distance 
top to bottom makes the driver circuits simpler (the left/right drivers just 
switch the pixel transistors on/off, the top/bottom drivers actually send 
the data so are much more sensitive to the capicitance and resistance in the 
lines).

> Also... I just touched my desk and got a static shock. (Like I always do, 
> several times per day.) But this time, my LCD monitor went black for a 
> second just as I got the shock. WTF?! o_O

Hehe, we have an ESD gun here for doing exactly that test, hold it on the 
screen or on one of the connectors and fire!  Usually it does what you say 
at the higher voltages, blanks out until it can reset (customers don't like 
seeing garbled random data on the screen while the drivers try to reset).

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