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I welcome the extra vertical space and couldn't care less about watching video content full screen. Do that many people buy these laptops as portable Netflix p

• Aachen 4y ago
  You never watch any video content on anything but a TV? Make any content like a game or website? Having a universal ratio makes all these things a lot simpler. Until 4k became more popular maybe five years ago, the vast majority of devices were 1920x1080, plus a series of budget 1366x768 devices but that's the same ratio. Upscaling an integer factor to 4k is also convenient and doesn't cause any issues, just makes everything sharper. It's when you start to mess with the ratio that you need to suddenly account for different people having different things in view. You can't simply scale a hero image (or game scene or so) to 20:9 without everything becoming contorted, you need to start to crop, but then you're hiding information so now you need to add optional parts that don't look out of place when shown and can also be hidden without consequence.