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hbm*rais:
I never knew that. Very interesting.

To complete the whole mess with aspect ratios, some of the widescreens are now advertised as 16:10 (as opposed to the "traditional" 16:9).

I know there's probably some economical reason behind it, but as lots of the media is aspect ratio dependent, it means you're paying for black borders or stretched images... which is fine when dealing with technological leaps as the change from regular TVs to Hi-def, but it really makes you think if all those other formats (5:4, 16:10, etc...) make sense.




--- Quote from: u_rebelscum on April 11, 2007, 01:29:57 pm ---
--- Quote from: hbm*rais on April 10, 2007, 03:41:10 pm ---Standard LCD's are usually 5:4.

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Errr, small point:

Most 'standard' 17" & 19" LCDs are 5:4, and have a native res of 1280x1024. (probably 99%)

Most 'standard' 15" & 20" (& greater) LCDs are 4:3, and have 1024x768 & 1600x1200 respectively.

The most common LCD over the last year or two are 17" & 19", so it might seem that all non-widescreen LCDs to 5:4, but that's not quite true.

FWIW, CRTs also had 5:4 aspect 17" & 19" monitors, but they were not as common as 4:3 of the same size, and usually on the cheap end.  Again, look at the native res and if it was 1280x1024, it was a 5:4 monitor.

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Tiger-Heli:
To add on to the notes -

You can set different video options for each game, so you can run MAME at 1280x1024 on the games that don't need much horsepower, and 640x512 (blurry) on the more intense (CPU-wise) games.

AFAIK, anything video-wise you can set in MAME32 you can also set with command-line MAME.
hbm*rais:
And a note on a note  ;):

640x512 *wouldn't* be blurry (if it actually worked), because every pixel would fall into an exact 2x2 square of the native resolution.


--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on April 11, 2007, 02:02:13 pm ---To add on to the notes -

You can set different video options for each game, so you can run MAME at 1280x1024 on the games that don't need much horsepower, and 640x512 (blurry) on the more intense (CPU-wise) games.

AFAIK, anything video-wise you can set in MAME32 you can also set with command-line MAME.

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u_rebelscum:

--- Quote from: hbm*rais on April 11, 2007, 01:57:19 pm ---To complete the whole mess with aspect ratios, some of the widescreens are now advertised as 16:10 (as opposed to the "traditional" 16:9).

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Check out this wikipedia page for other computer aspects (although some of those ratios listed are resolution ratios, not screen dimension ratios).  Most computer widescreens seem to me to be 16:10 now (90-95%), but the TV widescreens are still true widescreen 16:9.  And to mix it up a little more outside of BYOAC (but not BYO home theater) realm, add that movies have other aspect raitos.
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hbm*rais:

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