More widescreen monitors around the world than 4:3 ones

Weve all been used to looking at monitors that are mostly square. Televisions in the past have also have followed the same design. Its only in

April 16, 2012 / 09:15 IST
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We’ve all been used to monitors that are mostly square. Televisions in the past have also followed the same design. It’s only in this past decade that widescreens have started taking the place of conventional 4:3 and 5:4 aspect ratio displays. We’ve seen a trend, at least in India where most users in the early 90s used 14-inch monitors and slowly 15-inch displays got more popular. These of course, used 800x600 and 1024x768 resolutions. Slowly, 17-inch monitors got more popular and were used a lot in the early half of the past decade.  These usually had resolutions of 1152x864 and 1280x1024. Click here for full story

first published: Apr 16, 2012 09:07 am

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