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2. Widescreen - Wikipedia

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   In film, a widescreen film is any film image with a width-to-height aspect ratio greater than 4:3 (1.33:1). For TV, the original screen ratio for broadcasts was in 4:3 (1.33:1). Largely between the 1990s and early 2000s, at varying paces in different countries, 16:9 (e.g. 1920×1080p 60p) widescreen displays came into increasingly common use by ...

3. List of common display resolutions - Wikipedia

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   This bit of marketing obfuscation is calculated as horizontal resolution × vertical resolution × 3. For example: 640 × 480 VGA is 921,600 subpixels, or 307,200 pixels, 800 × 600 SVGA is 1,440,000 subpixels, or 480,000 pixels, and 1024 × 768 XGA is 2,359,296 subpixels, but only 786,432 full-color pixels. ^ Apple Computer 1 megapixel standard.

4. Display size - Wikipedia

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   The size of a screen is usually described by the length of its diagonal, which is the distance between opposite corners, typically measured in inches. It is also sometimes called the physical image size to distinguish it from the "logical image size," which describes a screen's display resolution and is measured in pixels. [ 1 ][ 2 ]

5. Large-screen television technology - Wikipedia

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   A 140 cm (56 in) DLP rear-projection TV. Large-screen television technology (colloquially big-screen TV) developed rapidly in the late 1990s and 2000s. Prior to the development of thin-screen technologies, rear-projection television was standard for larger displays, and jumbotron, a non-projection video display technology, was used at stadiums ...

6. Can a TV be too big? Here's what happened when I ... - AOL

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   Around Black Friday, there was an 86-inch model selling for just under $1,000, the first time I've seen a screen that size dip that low. At this writing, you can get an LG UQ75 Series 86-inch TV ...

7. Display resolution standards - Wikipedia

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   The 16:10 ratio allowed some compromise between showing older 4:3 aspect ratio broadcast TV shows, but also allowing better viewing of widescreen movies. However, around the year 2005, home entertainment displays (i.e., TV sets) gradually moved from 16:10 to the 16:9 aspect ratio, for further improvement of viewing widescreen movies.