curl-6 said:
lucidium said:
curl-6 said:
Far out.
I suppose it's still technically not 1080p, but still, pretty cool.
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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.
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Around when did monitors go widescreen and PC gaming shift to literal 1080p?
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Mid 2002 was when the first 1080p monitors using LCD appeared, there were a couple widescreen CRT monstrosities, but in general people stuck with CRTs until the price of LCD monitors started to fall around 2004, 4:3 was still the norm for LCD up until late 2005 with higher end displays sporting 16:9, wasnt until late 2006 that people started to adopt 1080p lcd in larger numbers because at that point they were just starting to shift in to affordability.
