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Why have we let the standard measurement of screen area be done with units of length? Sometimes I wonder if the proliferation of widescreens is due to actual d
by alwaysdoit 13y ago
Why have we let the standard measurement of screen area be done with units of length?
Sometimes I wonder if the proliferation of widescreens is due to actual demand, or just being more marketable.
- takluyver 13y agoAt a guess, when all screens had similar aspect ratio, a length measurement was more convenient: you can measure it without a calculator, and people can hold their fingers apart and think 'about this big'. We don't seem to have the same kind of intuition with area measurements. I suspect widescreens have a bit of both. For watching videos or having two documents on screen, a widescreen does make more sense.