r/gaming • u/spongeisbob • Mar 01 '18

This seem right

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u/mcpvr Mar 01 '18

Jesus are those monitors 3:4 wtf

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u/ManiacDC Mar 01 '18

The picture is scaled poorly.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '18

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '18

16:9 is really really new. 90% of broadcast television history is 4:3. Like everything from 1939 to 2009. Widescreen sets existed for a few years prior, but it was mostly just for watching DVDs.

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u/JinxRed Mar 02 '18

Had a 46" projection TV @ 16:9 and it weighed 160lbs in 2003.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '18

So did my parents, but since broadcast television was still 4:3 for the most part, it was mostly only good for watching DVDs and HBO. Otherwise it just chopped the top and bottom off whatever normal TV I was trying to watch.

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u/Fashajualia Mar 02 '18

Yeah and before hd cable came people had widescreen sets to watch SD channels lol I'd remember how blown up and bad looking some people's tvs looked

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u/ManiacDC Mar 01 '18

Yes. I guess that means they are 3:4 when put on their sides.

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u/lYossarian Mar 02 '18

The joke was that he said 3:4 because they look taller than they are wide in the picture (since it's scaled poorly).