16:9 transition 'unstoppable'

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DisplaySearch (research firm) says LCDs with 16:9 aspect ratio will account for 90% of notebook displays and 67% desktop monitors by 2010.

They key here being 16:9 instead of 16:10 which most widescreen LCDs are today.
Same ratio as HDTVs and other widescreen TVs. All the resolutions used on 16:10 LCDs are not standard resolutions anyway.

"Users may not be thrilled about getting smaller panels, but DigiTimes says panel makers are "bent" on promoting the 16:9 aspect ratio. One manufacturer told the site it can make 20% more 15.6", 16:9 panels than 15.4", 16:10 ones using the same 5G substrate. As a result, DisplaySearch predicts that panel manufacturers will soon start phasing out 16:10 panels and push 16:9 panels in their stead. "Panel makers did it for square panels, and they know how to do it again," DisplaySearch's David Hsieh comments."
 
Yeah, I'd like to have 16:9 as well.
 
I don't think 16:9 is going to take offer the monitor market that quickly. Most LCDs today are actually 16:10, and most people keep LCDs for a fairly long time. I think we will start seeing more large screens as this transition takes place. A 22" 16:9 would actually be slight smaller height wise than a regular 4:3 19" monitor. So if I was going to get 16:9 I'd have to get a minimum of 24", and the price for these should be falling soon.
 
No Limit said:
I don't think 16:9 is going to take offer the monitor market that quickly. Most LCDs today are actually 16:10, and most people keep LCDs for a fairly long time.
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I'm betting they are talking LCD market that would be selling at the time and not a couple-year-old models that customers may still own.

No Limit said:
I think we will start seeing more large screens as this transition takes place. A 22" 16:9 would actually be slight smaller height wise than a regular 4:3 19" monitor. So if I was going to get 16:9 I'd have to get a minimum of 24", and the price for these should be falling soon.
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That sounds like a good prediction. They make can make more of them from the same batch, why not.
 
I'm betting they are talking LCD market that would be selling at the time and not a couple-year-old models that customers may still own.
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ahh, that makes sense.
 
I like 4:3 ratio. But shit keeps being made in widescreen taht requires widescreen to see everything! AND I DON'T OWN ANY WIDE SCREEN TELEVISIONS OR MONITORS. ARGH!
 
sea said:
I actually prefer the 16:9 ratio. 16:10 is a bit too stretched out for me
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Um...

<--------16-------->
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10
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<--------16-------->
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9
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Surely the latter would be more stretched?
 
A lot of modern 16:10 monitors have scaling issues when displaying 16:9 content. Luckily, the 24" I plan on getting scales properly.
 
I wonder how PCs ended up with 16:10 in the first place? Given that PCs can run at almost any resolution it seems odd to me that they would go with 16:10 when a very simular 16:9 standard is used by the movies/tv industry.
 
Operational said:
I wonder how PCs ended up with 16:10 in the first place? Given that PCs can run at almost any resolution it seems odd to me that they would go with 16:10 when a very simular 16:9 standard is used by the movies/tv industry.
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It could be because the height in pixels is also a number used by some 4:3 standard resolutions.

1600x1200 -> 1920x1200
1400x1050 -> 1680x1050
1024x768 -> 1280x768
800x600 -> 1024x600
 
^ That's probably it, makes sense to be able to display a standard 4:3 resolution without any resize issues - only a couple of vertical black bars.
 
This thread needs to be entitled "69 position unstoppable"
 
I have a 16:10.

I need to write down the standard resolutions on the 16:10 so I can remember them.
 
sea said:
Yeah, but as far as I've seen, no monitor these days actually does that. They just stretch the image out to make it look twice as ugly.
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You might want to check your graphics card settings, even if your monotor doesn't support proper scaling.
In the Nvidia Control Panel the options are under, "Display -> Change flat panel scaling".
I forget how to reach the option for ATI but I can find out.
 
I would have prefered a 2:1 ratio become standard (like movie theaters), but 16:9 is good too - it's sort of a compromise .. that way if you display fullframe stuff on it, it's not quite as bad.

Widescreen is the ****ing shit... it's more like human vision.


sea said:
Yeah, but as far as I've seen, no monitor these days actually does that. They just stretch the image out to make it look twice as ugly.
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You have to checkbox 'enforce aspect ratio'. with a widescreen monitor you have a choice of either displaying fullframe with the bars on the side or stretching to fit
 
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