Vote to bring back 16:10 and 4:3 resolutions

I want to rally a vote to bring back 16:10 and 4:3 on laptops and tablet pcs

Manufacturers are done with 1920x1200, 1680x1050, 1400x1050, 1280x800 and even 1024x768. Why? Simply style. The industry has been driven by style over substance where few have got it right, we are forced to fork out huge costs to get what we want for those particularily in the design and publishing industry.

 

I actually own a TV that is 1680x1050 so for all you who think laptop screens are moving towards 16:9 because of TV's..... I own the exception to the rule a 23 inch samsung lol.

 

I don't really see a point in bringing 4:3 back unless they bring 2048x1536 back with it.

16:10 generally brought higher resolutions without dropping the maximum. (2048x1536 doesn't really count because it was so rare)
1024x768 -> 1280x800
--------- -> 1440x900
1400x1050 -> 1680x1050
1600x1200 -> 1920x1200

16:9 just completely dropped the 1200p resolution
1280x800 -> 1366x768
1440x900 -> 1600x900
1680x1050 -> 1920x1080
1920x1200 -> THE VOID (2048x1152, but manufacturers refuse to produce notebook displays with this res.)

If they brought us 15.6" displays that had a resolution of 2048x1152 I'd be perfectly fine with 16:9. It's the refusal to offer anything higher than what they consider to be "Full" HD that bugs me. Sure, 1920x1080 is all you need for a good quality picture on a television, maybe even more than you need depending on the size of the TV, but computers are not TVs.

If I want to watch a movie, I'll tolerate the black bars, it's really not a big deal anyway. In fact, with some movie studios producing films in that ridiculous 21:9 aspect ratio (NOBODY wants a screen that wide... well I can think of a couple people, but not many), we have to deal with those black bars anyway, so the whole point of going 16:9 is rendered useless. Usually I can just use VLC Media player to crop a 16:9 movie to fit just perfectly on 16:10, but you lose so much trying to do that with 21:9. If you want to make movies more seamlessly playable on computers, change the film standard, don't force computers to adapt to it.

16:10 is better on the eyes too. It fits better inside a human's field of vision and doesn't have that "squished" feel, and I don't know if that has anything to do with the fact that the 16 divided by 10 very closely approximates the golden mean (phi, 1.618...).

 

I don't really think the other choices are a waste of our time, just our money. LCD prices come down when they get cheaper to make, if they don't have to set up factories to make 3 different sizes to serve a single market that savings gets passed on to you..

More to it than just the LCD panel, bezels and electronics are different as well.

Personally, I prefer 16:10, but that's because I'm used to it. 5 yrs ago had you asked me the same question I would have been telling you not to change to 16:10 as I preferred my 4:3...

What I do like is paying $700 for a first class 27" IPS display with more inputs that I could ever use, I paid three times that for a 20" sony monitor back in the 90's. What is that in today's dollars? $3000?

 

i want back 5:4 (and 1:1, too)

 

Too bad this poll has no value in real life since it won't be happening despite whatever results are found here.

 

noooo! don't say that! people listen to us! they will change the whole industry just because i voted in here!

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sad dave walks away, gets a beer..

 

Sad dragon follows dave and gets a wait, I do not like beer, a glass of vodka insted

 

i didn't like beer about a month ago.. then i found one i like. but vodka's nice, too..

 

Uh.. Is this going off topic already?!

 

does this have an "on-topic"? actually? it's just crying about change, and we can't do anything about it anyways.

 

I suppose...

Any more can go into:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...2545-official-16-9-screen-protest-thread.html