Re:Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday
by aidenn0 on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @07:09PM
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16:9 is a compromise resolution. It's the geometric mean of 1.33 and 2.85 (TV vs Panavision).
> So we lost vertical screen space for what? Nothing, that's what. Slightly less black bars on the top and bottom when we watch a Marvel movie on our desktop computer or laptop.
It's not "nothing" that we lost; on a X" display with Y total pixels, the marvel movie will be larger and higher resolution on a 16:9 than it will be on a 4:3. This is true for any of the post 1960ish popular ratios for films: 15:9, 1.85, and 2.35.
Similarly, 4:3(1.33) content will use more pixels than it would on a 1.85 or 2.35 ratio screen.
> So we lost vertical screen space for what? Nothing, that's what. Slightly less black bars on the top and bottom when we watch a Marvel movie on our desktop computer or laptop.
It's not "nothing" that we lost; on a X" display with Y total pixels, the marvel movie will be larger and higher resolution on a 16:9 than it will be on a 4:3. This is true for any of the post 1960ish popular ratios for films: 15:9, 1.85, and 2.35.
Similarly, 4:3(1.33) content will use more pixels than it would on a 1.85 or 2.35 ratio screen.