On 06/07/09 15:08 (GMT-0400) Steve Wendt apparently typed:

> On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 07:53:09 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:

>>> That isn't strictly true; HD video is still 16:9 (1280x720 aka
720p, 1920x1080 aka 
>>> 1080p).  

>>Suitability for movies doesn't really correlate to suitability for a PC
>>display AFAICT.

> When they are marketed as suitable for watching widescreen movies, I have to 
> think there is some sort of correlation.

I really don't see how the WXGA 11.1" and 13.1" Sony laptops I was
playing with at Office Depot the other day could possibly be considered
suitable for watching widescreen movies.

Widescreen movies come in several aspect ratios. 16:9 is only one of
them, and won't get you all the way there with CinemaScope or Cinerama.

>>It might also be that driver math at 1.6:1 is simpler than at
>>1.777777777777777777777:1.

> That doesn't have anything to do with it... the standard modes are
1.333333333:1.

Like I wrote, "might". I'm just speculating "out loud"
until someone can
come up with something concrete, probably has nothing to do with it
regardless of that math.

Do video drivers work with 64 bits, or even 32? I think it easily might
not be as easy as 1.7777777 vs 1.3333333 as one might think due to pixel
rounding math. The latter ratio is a function of the octal single digit
integers 4:3, possibly much less bit hungry than the 16:9 of the former.
16:10 (8:5) is more like 4:3 than 16:9.
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