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curl-6 on 24 April 2014
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lucidium said:
curl-6 said:

Far out.

I suppose it's still technically not 1080p, but still, pretty cool.

Was basically as close as you could get back in the day with 4:3 ratio

Even still, the difference between 1080p and 1600x1200 is 153,600, difference between 720p and 1080p is 1,152,000

To be exact and it works out nicely in the process, 1920x1080 - 1080p, if you stretched out 1600x1200 to widescreen, it would be 1920x1000, so really only loosing 80 pixels across the horizontal.

thanks to dell and a few others releasing cheaper 4k displays, 4k pc gaming is getting more popular lately too.

On a last, interesting note, the average recommended resolution for a 11-15" crt monitor back in the day was 1280x1020, most beyond 17" could handle 1600x1200 or even higher.

Around when did monitors go widescreen and PC gaming shift to literal 1080p?