Webtv is not very versatile, its only purpose is for online use. There are a few tricks you can do like cut and paste, and playing with htmls, and you can use a printer, but other than that you can't do the things that can be done with a computer. It's basically an internet box that uses a TV screen for a monitor, but a regular monitor can be used as well. I suspect the reason I have no trouble with a wide screen effect is because of using the TV screen instead of a regular monitor, but there may be some other reason for that too. I don't have very high screen resolution, but I do have a large screen for viewing.