New monitor - aspect ratio and resolution settings

Hi,
I just bought a Samsung 931BF monitor. It's great to have the bigger monitor as I have a brain tumour that is causing my vision to deteriorate.
However, I have a couple of questions that I am hoping you guys might be able to help me out with:
1. The monitor came with both VGA and DVI cables but the DVI cable is not the right one. It doesn't fit my DVI port. For now, I am using the DVI/VGA adapter that came with the MacBook Pro and the image is fairly crisp on the external monitor but I wonder if the DVI input would make a significant difference ?
2. The sales guy told me that you really need a wide screen monitor to work properly with the MacBook Pro but they were significantly more expensive or cheap and low quality.
Any suggestions and/or recommendations would be very much appreciated.
Thank you,
Kallum

1) Depends on the resolution of your external display and at a 1280 x 1024 resolution you do begin to see the difference. You were probably shipped a DVI-A cable and what you need is a DVI-D cable.
2) The sales guy is wrong.

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Thanks for the details Rick.
Thanks for the insight on #1
Ref #2, You should never change the interpretation of Pixel aspect ratio on footage unless you know for a certainty that it is wrong. For example, open Photoshop or Illustrator and create a new document that is 720 X 480 pixels and AE will always interpret the image as rectangular pixels because that is a standard rectangular pixel frame size.
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--Did you mean to write:
Unless you specifically created the image in Photoshop with SQUARE pixels using a rectangle layout? I am not trying to bust your blz here, I am trying to understand the unknown. (for me)
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If the field order is reversed then motion will be in the right direction then reverse, then go back to the right direction. ---I did not understand? Are you referring to Upper and Lower reverse? Direction, as in fwd and back in Time line? Sorry unlclear on my end...
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@Dave- You -
At 1080, a lot of footage is interlaced, and evidently your camera made interlaced footage
Me- How do you know? because of the 2nd pic and upper field first indication?
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Me- Is this typical false advertisement of the sales divison of brands like not telling you what CMOS or CCD is in a cam just slapping HD 1080p on the side of the box?
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