[dba-Tech] Wide Screen

Bryan:

A bit OT but when I switched to soft lenses from hard the optimist made an
error in my correction and I ended up with monovision - one eye slightly
undercorrected, one eye slightly over.  Next day I went til noon, reading
the paper, working, when suddenly I realized I wasn't wearing my readers!

I felt like the revivalist that just threw away his crutches.  I called my
eye doc and raved about him and his assistant until they checked the numbers
and found out my miracle cure was due to a mistake.

I made him promise not to correct the mistake.  No more cheaters and the
envy of my peers.  I read menus in dimly lit restaurants!

But you might try it.  If you wear contacts you can just change the powers
slightly and test it out.

Rocky

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Carbonnell" <carbonnb at sympatico.ca>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Wide Screen


> On 25 Oct 2004 at 11:47, Rocky Smolin - Beach Access S wrote:
>
> > I would think it would be just the opposite - the close to 1:1 the
> > less distortion you'd get.  On all my other monitors the 1.3 ratio -
>
> Actually no. A "standard" computer monitor is 4 units wide by 3 units
> high, not square. Which is the same ratio as a standard definition
> TV.
>
> The Wide-screen monitors/TVs are 16 units wide by 9 units high.
>  So when you do the math:
>
> 4/3 = 1.333
> 16/9 = 1.7778
>
> So a wide screen needs a resolution that divides out somewhere near
> 1.6-1.8
>
> We won't even get to taking a computer image and stuffing it into a
> TV broadcast system. We have a full day long course that deals with
> that at work!!! (Let's just say that computers monitors have square
> pixels and TVs are rectangular pixels and converting back and forth
> can be problematic :(
>
> > okay. Everything's square.  Just need to get out my cheaters. :)
>
> Glad it's sorted out and square :)
>
> But cheaters are a good thing. I use 'em all day long!! :)
>
> -- 
> Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at sympatico.ca
> An unkind remark is like a killing frost. No matter how much it warms
> up later, the damage remains.
>
>
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