Meanwhile, the lofty Cinema Display is shrinking; when it debuted way back in August of '99, its screen measured a meaty twenty-two inches from corner to corner, but as of yesterday, it's measuring in at a slightly less Rubenesque twenty inches. Granted, people often shrink a bit when they get old, and three and a half years is a whole lotta time in computer years, but is there perhaps something else going on, here? Like, say, is a certain widescreen display we know and love suffering from an eating disorder? Will it soon be the subject of a movie on Lifetime? If so, will said movie star Tori Spelling and/or Meredith Baxter? And, most importantly of all, could it possibly have a title cooler than Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?

Valid questions, one and all. But the Cinema Display's shrinkage isn't all bad. For one thing, its actual screen real estate appears to have grown a smidge; whereas the original 22-incher packed a resolution of 1600x1024 pixels (not too shabby), the new 20-inch model boasts the slightly larger (and even less standard) resolution of 1680x1050. That's an extra 125,600 pixels for you to play with, crammed into a smaller footprint. Better still, even as the Cinema Display was shaving off a couple of inches, it dropped a massive chunk of sticker price: one of these svelte new babies will only set you back $1299.

And, of course, for those of you who crave the extra inches, there's always its big brother, the 23-inch Cinema HD Display. Its specs haven't changed, but its price sure has: this 1920x1200 behemoth now costs a mere $1999, a price which may send a lot of people into sticker shock (especially since that comes out to 28 straight days of 20-minute phone calls with 10-10-220-- thanks, Alf and Hulk Hogan!), but which is in fact extremely cheap, considering the same thing cost $3499 just ten months ago. Listen! Hear that scream? That's some poor shlub who bought a Cinema HD Display over the weekend at its original price, and is now contemplating what sound is made when you take $1500 in small bills, stuff it into a paper sack, set it on fire, and toss out a car window at 75 mph.

Finally, for those of you who aren't hung up on the whole size issue, don't worry, you catch a break, too: the entry-level 17-inch display just got shaved from $999 to a pretty gosh-darn reasonable $699. Man, with prices like these, we've apparently wandered into Crazy Steve's Discount Display Hut: "Our prices are so low, you'll think my RDF is on the fritz!"