Re:LG’s new 16:18 monitor
by theandrewbailey on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @02:16PM
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When HDTV became a thing. Mid-late 90s?
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It took a long time to really become mainstream, TV broadcast was firmly 4:3 until roughly the mid-2000s, and 16:9 TVs were expensive until LCD TVs became cheap. There was a long interim period were 16:9 was mainly a DVD aspect ratio you watched on 4:3 TVs with black bars.