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> What 16:9 is good for? It is inconvenient for any work: for coding, reading articles or working with documents more height is better. Is it? Gee, I wonder wh
by Aachen 4y ago
> What 16:9 is good for? It is inconvenient for any work: for coding, reading articles or working with documents more height is better.
Is it? Gee, I wonder why it's the only screen ratio I've seen people use since we moved away from CRT screens until a few years ago when 4k and friends became popular and there was suddenly no standard resolution to expect anymore. Curious that we're all using this inferior ratio for literally all those things all the time.
- zerocrates 4y agoHmm, is that actually true? My recollection of widescreen PC monitors and laptops is that they all started at 16:10, and the shift to 16:9 came later (and is now reversing somewhat).
- Aachen 4y agoYou may be right, I don't have good memories from the late CRT / early flat-screen era (I must have been 13 or something). Now that you mention it, I think my first flat screen monitor might have been 1440x900 / 16:10. I'm sure that my screen has been 1080p "full HD" since ~2007 because I still use that screen as my primary monitor. Whether I had one in between those two, I don't remember.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoHdtv made economies of scale that eliminated everything else for a time. Eventually more sophisticated folks realized it is horrible for everything but non-video applications. Mobile is separate because it’s mostly a consumption device.