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Posted by Jeff Rife on 04/24/06 15:22
Freda (fredapain@hotmail.com) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> > No they don't. 16:9 is the widescreen standard.
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> Oh yes they do (this sounds like a pantomime). I made a thorough
> investigation of this prior to purchasing a plasma, and many LCD TV screens
> are actually a physical 15:9 ratio. This is fact, not rumour, and has been
> mentioned on several occasions in reviews in specialist magazines.
OK, so name one model that is 15:9.
There are (were?) some 14:9 TVs intended for Europe, and some newer LCDs
are 16:10, and many plasmas (and LCDs?) use non-square pixels so the
pixel count ratio isn't 16:9, but I don't know of any displays with a
physical aspect ratio of 15:9.
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