Re: Resolution (was Re: TechWhirler Recap for November 24?? November??

Subject: Re: Resolution (was Re: TechWhirler Recap for November 24?? November??
From: John Allred <jack -at- allrednet -dot- com>
To: Techwr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:34:26 -0500

Ah! Reminds me of the vertical monitors in the early DTP days. Some of them swiveled like today's iPad & most phones.

John Allred

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On Jul 29, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> wrote:

> The exact dimensions of displays reflect the economics of avoiding
> waste when cutting substrate panels, but there's no economic reason
> they have to be wide. E.g. a Gen 10 panel is about 9' x 10'. You could
> cut that 6x10 to get 60 ~16x9 panels ~20.5" wide by ~11.5" high, or
> 7x9 to get 63 ~4:3 panels ~17.5" wide by ~12.5" high.
>
> How the substrates are cut reflects demand. I think wide screens
> dominate the market for larger computer displays because more
> consumers use them to watch DVDs and playing games than for
> professional applications.
>
> 2011/7/29 RÃdacteur en chef <editorialstandards -at- gmail -dot- com>:
>>>
>>> o Ruth Sessions is looking for a little TW bartering with her post on
>>> âswapping monitors?â Seems like there are quite a few folks ready to
>>> sacrifice newness for high resolution.
>>> In Case You Missed it: This Week @ TechWhirl
>>
>> A lot of the problem is due to manufacturing economies.
>>
>> Fabrication plants are set up to make big sheets of screen substrate,
>> which are then cut, much in the manner of integrated circuits
>> being cut from a wafer.
>>
>> It just works out that the wide-aspect formats are more economical
>> (less waste after cutting) than the squarer formats that many of us
>> prefer for practical work reasons.
>>
>> If our work was mostly watching movies, we'd want wide-screen.
>> But we're vastly outnumbered by the users who browse, watch
>> movies, tweet... and pretty much don't do anything else with a
>> computer.
>>
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