Widescreen Aspect

[janne]

fre 2004-10-22 klockan 09:26 +0200 skrev Michele Cella:
> janne wrote:
> 
> >fre 2004-10-22 klockan 06:01 +0200 skrev Erik Bågfors:
> >  
> >
> >>On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:22:45 +1000, Jeff Waugh <jeff.waugh at canonical.com> wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 04:58 +0200, calle wrote:
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>I know dell & apple use 16x10 for their wide-stuff, but ofcourse there
> >>>>will be differences, since there seemes to be no standard or
> >>>>"difference" (widescreen is both 16x9 and 16x10). Hence if ubuntu
> >>>>wants to be truly great there'll have to be (at least?) the three
> >>>>aspects, 4x3, 16x9, 16x10, i guess?
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>Along with very quickly diminishing returns... ;-) We'll figure
> >>>something out. It may just be that, eventually, we use ratio-independent
> >>>methods rather than shipping special widescreen images at all.
> >>>
> >>>In the mean time, any more input on the 16:9 vs 16:10 issue is welcome;
> >>>I want to sort that out if it's wrong.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>I'm currently looking at a very very nice HP-monitor that is running
> >>at 1920 by 1200 and that seams to be 16:10. So it looks like HP is
> >>also doing that ratio.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >My current main machine (Dell Latitude) has 1920x1200 as well. On the
> >other hand, a stream of recent subnotebooks (like the Sony Vaio T and
> >others) have a 1280x768 screen which comes out to 10:6 (or about
> >16:9.6).
> >
> >One solution is probably to have backgrounds that are a little forgiving
> >when stretched or compressed and have a generic 16:9 or 16:10 widescreen
> >image that is adjusted appropriately. 
> >
> >Another one is to make the images 16:10 and a little tileable, so when
> >added as a tile on the screen, it won't be visible that your far right
> >edge may actually be the left edge of the same image. 
> >
> >A bit strange (and unfortunate) that laptop widescreens aren't using the
> >same proportions as widescreen TV (which is 16:9 in both Europe and USA
> >at least, and, I think, in Japan).
> >
> As far as I know all laptop widescreens are 16:10, for istance my HP 
> zt3020ea has 1280x800 and the same goes for the Sony Vaio T ( take a 
> look here http://makeashorterlink.com/?P3D424799 ).

Sorry about the Vaio; misremembered. The Fujitsu T70 series uses
1280x768, however (http://www.dynamism.com/t70/specs.shtml), as does
some Sharp Mebius models (http://www.dynamism.com/cv50/specs.shtml).




> Ciao.
>     Michele
> 
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