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From: wrf@mab.ecse.rpi.edu (Wm Randolph Franklin)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: HDTV and aspect ratio
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Date: 19 Apr 91 22:00:34 GMT
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The 16:9 aspect ratio also allows computer graphics people to have lots
of fun (aka heart attacks) working with rectangular pixels.  The pixels
are at about 21:20.  Image processing people, at least ones I have
spoken to here at RPI, see no advantage in square pixels.  They've never
wanted to rotate an image 90 degrees, for instance.


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