| happydolphin said: Who fucking cares. As consumers this is a good option. As gamers, noone here gives a damn. @zarx. Why do they do that, set the TV standard to some proto-form. Since they're so close, why not just go all the way, what do they save by removing a few lines in the verticals? |
The tv standard is fine, 3840x2160 is exactly 4x 1920x1080, 16:9 aspect ratio that has been used for tv for a long time.
4096x2160 is a weird ratio 256:135 or 1.896:1
Movies are shot at all kinds of different aspect ratios. They used to be shot at constant image height on 35mm and stretched horizontally with an anamorphic lens to get the wider aspect ratios.
With digital cinema they are captured constrained by constant image width with black borders. The picture gets stretched both horizontally and vertically for a 2.39:1 (4096x1714) movie as apposed to a 1.85:1 (3996x2160) movie.
So 3840x2160, 9 x 1280x720 and 4 x 1920x1080 is as good a compromise as any.
