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It cost the same as 2 millenium falcons

16:10 is far better for computers. Glad my Asus Flow 13" has this superior ratio!

My 48k story:November 1983 my dad came to me 9 yrs old & my brother 6 & said:: “Boys you can have the usual loads of Christmas presents this year, board games, figures ect or you can have one thing between you, on this you will be able to play 100’s of games for years.. we looked at each other & said 100’s of games. That Christmas we opened brand new technology, Sinclair zx spectrum 48k, a interface, joystick, tape player, the horis games & a few others , two books & a catalog that came every month with new games allowing us to choose 2 new games a month for a year. It was the best decision we ever made. Years of family & individual fun 🤩 what I understand now is my dads hard sell, he was 28 at the time & was a tech buff. He played that thing while we slept at night hahaha !! American football manager was an early favourite of his. Jet set Willy, Bruce Lee, saboteur, jet pac, spy hunter spawn of evil, paper boy & outrun with the music on a tape were a few of ours

4:3 was changed to 16:9 to accomodate for the increase in obesity of the general population when displaying people. #ChangeMyMind :)

This content has shattered my world… I am a retro-gamer! Oh, the shame!

I used to have a 24" 16:10 monitor, it was a slight downgrade to go to a 27" 1080 monitor. It's understandable WHY the PC industry went with 6:9 costs, and it helped people move up from 1024x768 or 800x600. Going with a 1440p monitor pretty much solves the loss of pixels. It's still bothersome with notebooks also having lots of empty space because of the 16:9. BUT 16:10 is making a comeback with some companies. Current ThinkPads upgraded from 15.7 displays to 16" which have 1920x1200 or 2560x1600 display modes! (14" and 16" displays for T and P series, and likely the rest too)

i also used a CRT for a while for retrogaming and it felt great, the size is just what made me change to a 21" 4:3 PC Dell Monitor. not the same but for that size its and okay thing. great content

i just say Sony KV-40XBR700!

@ 13:50 good old California in Germany.... We call it Mecklenburg Vorpommern 🏖 nice video 😁

Completely fascinating! 👌🏼

Im confused. My CRT as a kid was definitely bigger than this.

I found one today at goodwill. It’s stupid but fun. I’m surprised that it was an enjoyable addition to my home media collection. 😂

Seems to me it makes sense to have side bars on screen for controls, so they don't have to go on top of the picture or shrink the picture. Or top or bottom bars, to justify 16:10.

Love the font at the end!

Anyone watching this video on a 4K TV? Hello 2160p.

Worked at Best Buy years ago. Luckily these were long gone. Lifting some of those 85" flat panel TVs was hard enough. I cannot imagine moving around those CRTs that weighed 200lbs in a giant square box and putting it in a customer's car.

Screw 16:9 i love my 16:10

🔥 the amount of research, cross checks, analysis and filtering for the final draft🤍💙which must have gone in this production is mind boggling!🌹👍🏼👌🏼

10:06 The European Union barely started functioning towards the end of 1993, after the treaty having been signed in 1992.. right? They then seem to have moved fast on almost everything it seems, except on checking the arms race within the EU nations.

Because it sucked

In 2003 I was able to browse the web with my original C64c. I blogged about it here: taosecurity.blogspot.com/2003/11/my-c-64-rides-again-thanks-to-rr-net.html

I watched this at 144 P.

am i weird for loving 5:4 ? square high resolution screens are sadly only affordable by airport flight-control :3

not sure that 16/9 is always the best for gaming, but great for movies.

It's annoying for computers that laptop vendors got away with branding screens as "widescreen" which had less area than the corresponding 4:3. They should properly be called "shortscreen". 16:9 is especially poor for computers when even more space is used for the taskbar, titlebar and menu.

this video trigger sizuers

Sphere, baby

4:3 was not that great - it was a limitation of the CRT regarding how much skew the plates could deliver. Its an odd manipulation presenting a "straight" line on a parabolic surface.

While this seems well detailed as to how film developed, it misses video quite a bit. "TV" started with round spinning discs. Many CRTs were square but only a reduced area was displayed to reduce visible distortion. Called the "safe viewing area" as market in video camera displays for framing. Along with even smaller "safe titling area" to assure any title would be visible in the highly reduced viewing areas. 3x4x5 developed out of the math between vertical and horizontal scan frequencies. It was more the development of VTRs, e.g. VHS being able to show a movie at home. Originally the widescreen film was "pan and scan" to the reduced TV ratio. Then and CRTs got bigger, "letter boxed" by giving full movie width and ignoring the black spaces above and below. And for the record, the Sony HDM-3830 was not 1080p. 1080p did not exist at that time. It was 525 scan lines not 540. It's corner resolution was only 950 lines (think pixels) far less than 1080's 1920 pixels.

I had a Toshiba widescreen TV in the late 90's and it rocked! As the video states - being able to see more when filmed in a wider ratio is much better for scenic/non close-ups. I am reminded of 4:3 everytime I watch a classic Simpsons/Family guy episode and I don't miss it at all!

The irony of me watching this video on a 4:3 monitor.

This Video made me learn why this monitor I use has a 16:10 resolution! My mom got it from an office!

It's just sad that device manufacturers is unable to maintain compatibility with USB-C PD, so often you still have to have a separate charger and/or cable for some devices...

Hubris.

Cinemascope was created by God for sunsets. Anyone striving to be created in his image ratio is called to 21:9

"Absolutely, even Wolfenstein was designed to be DOOMED with a mouse" ohhh baby. He knows it!

I saw that Poly Play sign and immediately thought of Polybius. Wonder if that's where it came from?

5:40 John Linneman of Digital Foundry fame's desk!

"We refer to it as a square box." Well, yeah; if by "we" you mean "absolutely nobody."

This is absolutely amazing

Watching a lot of videos on CZcams, you'd think 9:16 was the incoming standard. This TikTok crap should stay on TikTok, in my opinion. I hate it and for the most part refuse to watch it, with about 2/3rds of my screen black.

I love 16:10, it's the perfect middle ground for 16:9 and 4:3 content

And still 99% of people are too stupid holding their phone the right way when filming 🤔🤣😂

I still have this 4:3 TV in my house. 😅

The original film aspect ratio was actually 1.37:1, not perfect 4:3. It was standardized by the Motion Picture Academy, and was thus known as the Academy Ratio. You missed the point that the entire reason televisions were made in this ratio is because that's what movies used. (Technically the silent films did use 4:3, but the addition of sound meant the audio track had to go somewhere and that's when the first actual standard aspect ratio was decided at 1.37:1 with audio) As for widescreen - there's another obvious factor you didn't mention - you can easily increase the width, but most cinemas were already projecting the movies up to the ceiling, so you can't increase the height any. That's why widescreen happened, otherwise we may have ended up with vertical videos back in the 1950s. Notice how IMAX was still 1.43:1 and still is at the OG theaters - because they have a massively high ceiling too. They only adopted a 1.9:1 aspect ratio for newer IMAX licensed theaters out of necessity where the ceilings were already built. But yes, 16:9 was chosen because it's the average of 4:3 and 2.35:1. That's all there is to it. Infuriatingly, HDTV manufacturers assumed people would hate black bars so they set the TV to stretch 4:3 images. I saw it everywhere, and still do sometimes. Makes me want to scream... put the black bars on!

"This film has been modified from its original version. It has been formatted to fit this screen." Imagine being the guy who had to do that. It must have taken forever.

I can tell you why, the real reason, if anybody wants to know. It was to sell more televisions, nothing else. Companies knew if the aspect ratio was going to be changed, everybody would have to buy a new television, and not just a converter box eventually. Aspect ratio was picked to conform to most films. 4:3 was the aspect ratio of films at one point too, 1950's quite often.

I was looking forward to getting as upgrade to my ST, unfortunately it was priced too high then eventually I got a PC. They should have ditched the DSP and included a full 32 bit bus and a faster speed like 25MHz. It would have made it good for new games coming out like Wolfenstein/Doom/X-Wing

people were "snapping them up"? i don't think most people could afford that in those days

THIS NOT "vis"