Games & Widescreen LCD Monitors?

I'm considering buying a widescreen monitor. There seems to be only two
resolutions available for the size of monitor that I'm after. These
resolutions, while I understand are simply naitive, are also obnoxiously
high and some of my games that I play run in lower, non-widescreen
resolutions.

Who here plays games that are older and run in SVGA resolutions on one of
these newer 1400x900+ (or whatever) resolution LCD monitors? I know many of
the newer games will work just fine on it, but I'm curious as to what will
happen to games that I play like the Silent Hill series (non-widescreen),
Warlords Battlecry 3 (2D, non-widescreen), Ghost Master (non-widescreen),
Unreal Tournament 2003, etc.

Anyone have any comments or suggestions to make? Thanks for the help!!

Tyler Cobb, MCP