What are other common widescreen resolutions?

[Lorn]

Title says it all...

Any ideas?

 

[Bateluer]

1920x1200 😀

 

[JBT]

1280x768 or 1280x 800

 

[Peter]

848x480, 1024x600, 1280x768, 1680x1050, 1920x1200. These are the ones created from PC resolutions (height same as a common PC resolution). These are 16:10 ratio.

Then there are those required by HDTV - 848x480 again, 1280x720, 1920x1080. These are 16:9.

The S3 graphics driver's readme file has a current summary of supported resolutions - and surprise, there are plenty more. Follow the link and scroll down:

http://www.s3graphics.com/drivers/ComboChrome/RN_ComboChrome_EN.txt

 

[Childs]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
1920x1200 😀

hahahahaha

 

[Alto101]

Not to get off topic here, but can someone tell me why PC widescreen monitors use a 16X10 aspect ratio whereas HDTV's use a 16X9? Just curious....

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: Alto101
Not to get off topic here, but can someone tell me why PC widescreen monitors use a 16X10 aspect ratio whereas HDTV's use a 16X9? Just curious....

I would be interested in knowing this as well. Seems like it'd make more sense to use the same aspect ratio.

 

[Childs]

I think 16x10 is better for PC monitors because typically you a few pixels for controls. Ideally you want to view in full res, but still need access to controls like sliders, palettes, buttons, etc. Thats just a guess tho.

 

[Peter]

... and it doesn't matter anyway, since the respective PC resolutions have a handful of lines _more_ than your corresponding HDTV mode of the same horizontal resolution - barely noticeable black border while viewing media, and a handy extra few lines of display when computing.

 

[Lorn]

Thanks a lot for the help.