Poll: Are you Excited for 16:9 MBPs?

[SansSociety]

To be fair, isn't true cinema aspect ratio 1.85:1? Even at 16:9, there is still a slight compromise in what you see. I agree, 16:10 is the best compromise for mobile computing. As I see it, the move from 16:10 to 16:9 doesn't bring much value for laptops. It's either fiddling for fiddling's sake or that the manufacturers are just being cheap and standardizing their TV and computer panel production. It's probably the latter.

16:9 just sucks on a laptop.

 

[Doju]

To be fair, isn't true cinema aspect ratio 1.85:1? Even at 16:9, there is still a slight compromise in what you see. I agree, 16:10 is the best compromise for mobile computing. As I see it, the move from 16:10 to 16:9 doesn't bring much value for laptops. It's either fiddling for fiddling's sake or that the manufacturers are just being cheap and standardizing their TV and computer panel production. It's probably the latter.

16:9 just sucks on a laptop.

Occasionally a movie uses cinema resolution, which is 21:9, but very rarely. 21:9 is the standard, more or less.

As for the question at hand, I don't particularly care. Just press C in VLC and it crops it to 16:10 ration and you don't lose a single pixel. If the video is high enough resolution the stretched pixels are not noticeable.