[Fwd: 16:9 Aspect Ratio]

[Bill O'Neill]

Dan.Strassberg wrote:
> ...or an integral
> multiple thereof and that formats such as 720p would omit every third
> horizontal line. <snip>  but the display has 1152
> pixels vertically (perhaps a more convenient number than 1080 because
> the largest common factor of 1080 and 1920 is 120, which is not an
> integer power of 2, whereas the largest common factor of 2048 and
> 1152 is 128, which equals 2^7), it would suggest that the screen would
> display a 1920 by 1080-pixel image letterboxed within the 2048 by
> 1152-pixel screen. <snip>
Darn it! Dan beat me to it!  <g> Whew! ;-)

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