aspect ratios are going the wrong way

[Todd Howe]

The way I always understood it is that 16:9 engages more of your (somewhat horizontal) visual field. 

Get a big enough 16:9 monitor, open more portrait sized windows... works for me. Why not get two? OTOH single screen mobile devices are still biased towards the vertical. Potato potahtoh

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> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 02:54:52PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote
> 
> > Well 16:9 is popular because that's what HDTV uses.
> 
>     It's economies of scale.   A lot of 1920x1080 production is for TV
> sets, from the 60" monstrosities down to 10" utility monitors.   If you
> use those same screens for computer displays, that means you don't have
> to invest millions/billions in separate fabrication facilities.
> Essentially, a monitor is a TV without a tuner, or a TV is a monitor
> with a tuner thrown in.   Using separate production facilities would
> raise costs substantially, which is a killer in today's budget-based PC
> market.   Apple has been able to use "retina displays", because they've
> always been able to charge extra for their products.
> 
>     With ever-larger monitors, I've addapted to stuff like running two
> 960x1080 browser windows side-by-side.   This is actually works better,
> because many websites seem to be set up by 19th-century-luddite
> newspaper refugees who insist on portrait mode with small columns.
> 
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