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• Re: What Is Aspect Ratio??? Dalancroft 16:00:13 03/06/01 (1)
  In Reply to: What Is Aspect Ratio??? posted by indy on March 06, 2001 at 14:57:54:

  Width of screen/height of screen.

  An HDTV unit will be 16/9, which would mean, for example, 32" wide by 18" tall, which would probably measure 36" or so diagonally.

  A regular NTSC unit's aspect ratio is 4:3 (or, for an apples-to-apples comparison, 16:12), so a 32" wide TV screen would be 24" high and would measure somewhere around 40" diagonally.

  The benefit to a 16:9 ration is that anamorphic DVDs play without needing the black bars above & below, and more & more TV shows, ads, etc. are also in this narrower screen ratio . . .
  
  

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  • Thanks Dalancroft (nt) indy 20:54:06 03/06/01 (0)
    In Reply to: Re: What Is Aspect Ratio??? posted by Dalancroft on March 06, 2001 at 16:00:13:

    
    
    

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