Aspect ratio 16:9

In RickMerrill
wrote:

Bert Hyman wrote:
In Howard Brazee
wrote:

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:19:45 -0400, RickMerrill
wrote:

How many 4:3 TVs are being sold these days?

I would guess just the small ones for kitchen and in-car use.
The kitchen and portable players I've seen are 16:9. Maybe I
haven't looked hard enough.

To duplicate the image size of my 10" 4:3 CRT kitchen TV in a 16:9
format (picture's about 6" tall), I'd be looking for a 12" model,
which I've never seen.


http://www.buy.com/retail/product.as...ingid=33281698

is supposedly 4:3 with NTSC, etc.

A 13" 4:3 CRT set would be quite a bit larger than my 10" 4:3. The 12"
number I mentioned above was for a 16:9 set that would produce an image
of the same height as my 10" 4:3.

--
Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN

Divide your screen size by 25, and you can multiply that answer by 16
and 9 to get your screen width and height. Add a little bit for the
border.

Remysun wrote:
Divide your screen size by 25, and you can multiply that answer by 16
and 9 to get your screen width and height. Add a little bit for the
border.

Uhh, more like "Divide the screen size (diagonal) by 18.36...."

Howard Brazee asks:
----"How many 4:3 TVs are being sold these days?"----


Reply:
I do not think many *JUST* 4:3 TV's are necessarily being sold.There are
a lot of TV/monitors that do
BOTH aspect ratios.For instance,my Samsung DLP
56" TV/monitor is sold with 16:9 dimensions but incorporates the ability
to do 4:3 in the screen area
(albeit with black bars on the sides).How the material shown was
originally recorded makes me decide whether or not which aspect ratio I
use.
I don't think 4:3 aspect ratio is going to disappear completely for
many years yet.It will be just another
"feature" on a lot of sets.

SAC441

"Deke" wrote in message
et...

"Scott" wrote in message
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I would like to measure the actual aspect ratio of latest TVs. Can
someone advise the measurement method for this parameter.

Thanks,

Scott

Um, the aspect ration of the latest TVs (screen size) is going to be 4:3,
or 16:9. You should be able to tell the difference with your eyes. Now
the actual size of the picture being shown will vary a great deal,
depending on what aspect ratio was used to record it. Google is your
friend.

My PC 24" Monitor is 16x10!!! Could be used for a TV Display.

JBDragon wrote:


"Deke" wrote in message
et...

"Scott" wrote in message
...
I would like to measure the actual aspect ratio of latest TVs. Can
someone advise the measurement method for this parameter.

Thanks,

Scott

Um, the aspect ration of the latest TVs (screen size) is going to be
4:3, or 16:9. You should be able to tell the difference with your
eyes. Now the actual size of the picture being shown will vary a
great deal, depending on what aspect ratio was used to record it.
Google is your friend.

My PC 24" Monitor is 16x10!!! Could be used for a TV Display.

... with room left over for your task-bar.

"Remysun" wrote in message
...
Divide your screen size by 25, and you can multiply that answer by 16
and 9 to get your screen width and height. Add a little bit for the
border.

Just to make things easier, here's the conversion chart.
Got a 4:3 32" SD CRT? (right colun) and you want to watch a 32" sd picture
on a 16:9 TV?
You will need the 16:9 screen on the left. You might want to print this
off.

To get a 27" or 36" 4:3 size picture (right column), you'll need the 16:9
screen size in the left column.

16:9 4:3
-----------
30 24.5
31 25.3
32 26.1
33 27.0
34 27.8
35 28.6
36 29.4
37 30.2
38 31. 0
39 31.9
40 32.7
41 33.5
42 34.3
43 35.1
44 36.0
45 36.8
46 37.6
47 38.4
48 39.2
49 40.0
50 40.9
51 41. 7
52 42.5
53 43.3
54 44.1
55 44.9
56 45.8
57 46.6
58 47.4
59 48.2
60 49.0
61 49.8
62 50. 7
63 51. 5
64 52.3
65 53.1

On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:57:45 -0500, Deke wrote:

Just to make things easier, here's the conversion chart.

And if you lose it, just remember 1.22. Multiply 1.22 times the size of
your current SDTV to get the 16:9 size TV that will give you the same
size SD picture. Use .82 to go the other way.



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Wes Newell wrote:

Just to make things easier, here's the conversion chart.

And if you lose it, just remember 1.22. Multiply 1.22 times the size of
your current SDTV to get the 16:9 size TV that will give you the same
size SD picture. Use .82 to go the other way.


Uh, you mean "...the same *height* SD picture. A 42 inch 16:9 screen gives
you more width than a 42 inch 4:3 screen. Once you experience wide-screen
programming, it's hard to go back.

Just use http://www.nicetaco.com/tv.aspx#calculator for aspect ratio
comparisons.

On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:18:00 -0700, UCLAN wrote:

Wes Newell wrote:

Just to make things easier, here's the conversion chart.

And if you lose it, just remember 1.22. Multiply 1.22 times the size of
your current SDTV to get the 16:9 size TV that will give you the same
size SD picture. Use .82 to go the other way.


Uh, you mean "...the same *height* SD picture. A 42 inch 16:9 screen
gives you more width than a 42 inch 4:3 screen. Once you experience
wide-screen programming, it's hard to go back.

No. I meant exactly what I said. And a 42" 16:9 screen will give you less
width and height, not more, than a 42" SDTV when watching a 4:3 image.
You can get more width, but not height, if you stretch the image to 16:9
and make everything look like crap out of aspect.

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