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From: bill@thd.tv.tek.com (William K. McFadden)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: HDTV and aspect ratio
Message-ID: <1991Apr19.231019.19931@tvnews.tv.tek.com>
Date: 19 Apr 91 23:10:19 GMT
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Another reason for preferring 16:9 over 4:3 is that the field of vision
is much wider than it is high.  Hence, the wide aspect ratio more
closely matches the way we see.
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Bill McFadden    Tektronix, Inc.  P.O. Box 500  MS 58-639  Beaverton, OR  97077
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