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On Wed January 2 2008, Aaron Kulkis scratched these words onto a coconut 
shell, hoping for an answer:


> If you measured 19" visable, then the actual tube size is 20."
> My 21" diagonal screen has a 20"-diagonal viewing area
> (1600 x 1200 at 100x100 dpi)
>
> Monitor manufacturers sell by the largest dimension that they
> can justify.. in this case, the diagonal of the outside
> dimensions of the tube, *NOT* the usable portion.
>
> Go back to calculating from 20", but use the proper aspect ratio,
> and you should come out with the correct DPI (looks like it's
> probably close to 80x80 DPI)


Aaron, thanks for the suggestion.

I switched back to 20." The aspect ratio throughout all of this has 
always been properly set at 4/3.

Unfortunately changing back to 20" made no difference in my DPI problem.

So I'm still working on finding a solution to my squished rectangles.
Gil
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