2009/5/15 Kevin Shackleton <[email protected]>:
> On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 18:36 +0800, Dion wrote:
>> Actually its a 16:10 ratio.
>
> Terminology is curious.
>
> Did anyone do the arithmetic?  1920/1080 = 1.77778 = 16/9
>
> However, that doesn't say anything about if items in a scene look blocky
> or skinny - that depends on the ratio of the length and width of the
> screen.  No-one said the pixels have to be square.

A large number of plasma tvs have 16x9 ratios with a 1024x768
resolution. Their pixels are obviously not square. The LCD
mentioned here though is 1920x1200... 1920/1200 = 1.6 = 16/10...

so...
> On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 18:36 +0800, Dion wrote:
>> Actually its a 16:10 ratio.

Some of the newer LCDs can handle a 1080p input (DVI or HDMI)
using letterboxing which (without rtfm) _may_ be the case here.

cheers,
Owen.
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