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. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
