Timeline for Reasons to use an aspect ratio of 2:1
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| Jun 4, 2020 at 15:16 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Apr 20, 2017 at 8:36 | comment | added | Muzer | @Agent_L The geometric mean (square root of the product) of 4/3 and 2.35 is about 1.77 which is pretty much equal to 16/9. It's a compromise between the two most extreme aspect ratios that TVs at the time were expected to be able to show, no conspiracy theories necessary! It was also created for TV use long before HDTV (indeed the UK had it as our standard TV aspect ratio significantly before we had HDTV). The only thing it was for was to allow TVs to show films better while also still being able to show traditional TV programmes. | |
| Apr 20, 2017 at 5:31 | comment | added | Octopus | Oh okay, let's create a new aspect so that there are fewer of them. That's logical. | |
| Apr 20, 2017 at 0:20 | comment | added | supercat | @Muzer: If video formats had included "inner" and "outer" bounding boxes, television sets with a variety of aspect ratios would have been able to show a wide range of content, well. Technology to control scaling on the fly would have been difficult in the early days of HD, but nowadays it'd be trivial. | |
| Apr 19, 2017 at 23:54 | comment | added | Nick T | @Agent_L come on, I'm sure there has to be a way to make some 11's 13's or 33's out of those numbers for extra legit theory. 9 + 9 + 9 - 16 = 11 ILLUMINATI CONFIRMED | |
| Apr 19, 2017 at 16:26 | history | edited | Catija | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 19, 2017 at 16:13 | comment | added | Agent_L | @Muzer Conspiracy theorists say that 16:9 was designed precisely to be different, a fresh look, trademark of HDTV. | |
| Apr 19, 2017 at 13:31 | comment | added | PTwr | @Muzer and as always XKCD got relevant strip ;) | |
| Apr 19, 2017 at 10:51 | comment | added | Especially Lime | Do you mean prescribes rather than proscribes? ("Proscribe" means "forbid".) | |
| Apr 19, 2017 at 9:02 | comment | added | Muzer | Which is ironic because 16:9 was literally designed to be a compromise (between 4:3 and 2.35:1). | |
| S Apr 19, 2017 at 3:08 | history | suggested | martin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
The Wikipedia link does say "Univisium"
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| Apr 18, 2017 at 22:47 | history | edited | Catija | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 18, 2017 at 22:42 | history | edited | Catija | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 18, 2017 at 22:36 | history | answered | Catija | CC BY-SA 3.0 |