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Re:LG’s new 16:18 monitor by layer8 on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @02:18PM (#29653778)
That’s not really correct. TV went straight from 4:3 SDTV (NTSC/PAL) to 16:9 HDTV. There is no 16:10 TV (signal) aspect ratio. It’s true that there were a few "HD ready" LCD TVs with 16:10 aspect ratio (1680x1050 resolution), but those were never dominant and didn’t precede 16:9 TVs (which were already there in CRT/Plasma/RPTV times). Computer monitors on the other hand went from 4:3 and 5:4 to 16:10 in the mid-2000s, and then to 16:9 from ~2010 on, after 16:9 had already been well-established on TVs.

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_aspect_ratio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16:10_aspect_ratio

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Re:LG’s new 16:18 monitor by cpuguy83 on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @04:03PM (#29655147)
Indeed I flipped which was 16:9 and which was 16:10 in my head.
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