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So when did TVs go to 16:9?

• theandrewbailey 5y ago
  When HDTV became a thing. Mid-late 90s?
  • layer8 5y ago
    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.