Monitors Aspect Ratio

[Nismo]

Hey guys I was reading about 22 inch monitors and thought something was different. They are all 16x10 ratio. Won't that stretch movies up and down a bit? Why do they make them that way?

 

[karatekid]

Every widescreen computer monitor is 16:10. It does have bars I think (I don't own a widescreen) since widscreen movies and other stuff should be 16:9. I forgot the exact reason why its 16:10, but I believe it has something to do with viewing pages.

 

[BinarySynapse]

depending on your video card and the resolution you have set, movies might be stretched or they'll have a set of small bars on the top and bottom or the sides. Most of the time as long as your running at the monitors native resolution (or even 16:10 resolution that the monitor can handle) you won't get any stretching.

 

[FlipperBizkut]

I don't think that you will get any stretching at all. You will just get the black bars to fill in the unused space (be it on the top/bottom or sides).

 

[piako]

Won't that stretch movies up and down a bit? Why do they make them that way?

Depends on the original cinematography. 2.35:1, 1.66:1, 1.33:1. Lots of options. stuff

 

[FlipperBizkut]

Well, I think on a computer monitor (assuming that your computer is the source and not just some stand alone DVD player) so long as you have the correct aspect ratio set for your monitor (it's native resolution, or a 1:1 ratio thereof), the movie will not be stretched.

A 16:9 TV will stretch the picture (mine does by default) to fill up the whole screen. Computers just use whatever space they need, and black out the rest.