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A comment on LG’s new 16:18 monitor. Parent comment

Re:LG’s new 16:18 monitor by consp on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @09:31AM (#29649792)
My understanding was that for LCDs the 4:3 and 5:4 panels were more expensive to make due to them having more pixels per inch of diagonal than 16:9. So it is reasonable for them to be more expensive for the same inch diagonal.

edit: instead of down voting, please tell my why my understanding is wrong.

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Re:LG’s new 16:18 monitor by toast0 on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @10:33AM (#29650608)
There aren't very many 4:3 and 5:4 panels available at all beyond 17" these days. You can get largish 1:1 panels for crazy prices though. There's also the posibility of buying a whole 16:9 panel and having it cut to size, but that's not cheap and I'm not sure it's sane either.

A premium would be fine (we'd surely be grumbling still), but no availability is sad. I'm 60% sure the 1up arcade kits are so small because they're scaled to the largest 4:3 monitor they can get.

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