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Re:Ask HN: Why do no other laptop manufacturers get it? by joshu on Thursday June 10, 2010 @02:03PM (#1421003)
re chopping the top off: LCD manufacturers appear to be transitioning from 16:10 displays to true 16:9 (which i guess is for better movie displays?)... This seems stupid to me as well.
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Re:Ask HN: Why do no other laptop manufacturers get it? by younata on Thursday June 10, 2010 @02:17PM (#1421065)
off topic, but speaking of movie displays: This has always bothered me, as both a hacker, and a filmaker: Why do we focus so much an 16:9, 16:10 is mathematically superior to 16:9 [1], why don't we make movies in 16:10?

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio

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Re:Ask HN: Why do no other laptop manufacturers get it? by joshu on Thursday June 10, 2010 @02:26PM (#1421097)
I'm not sure it's "mathematically" superior. Maybe aesthetically?

Anyway, aren't a lot of movies in 2.35:1 or something anyway?

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Re:Ask HN: Why do no other laptop manufacturers get it? by eru on Thursday June 10, 2010 @03:39PM (#1421354)
The Golden Ratio is actually not very appealing aesthetically. And mathematics doesn't have much to say about comparing screen ratios.
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Re:Ask HN: Why do no other laptop manufacturers get it? by SandB0x on Thursday June 10, 2010 @03:58PM (#1421417)
Just to be pedantic, the golden ratio is irrational.
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Re:Ask HN: Why do no other laptop manufacturers get it? by wmf on Thursday June 10, 2010 @05:47PM (#1421857)
Some obscure technical reason, apparently: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.movies.tech/msg/9e7d...
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