Originally Posted by
marwan
I was running a 16:9 video on my widescreen laptop(hoping it would fill the entire screen), and noticed that the video has thin bars on top and bottom of the screen, which made me think, are widescreen laptops 16:9? why wouldnt it fill the entire screen like on my HDTV? then i fired up Half Life 2 and noticed that the game supports 16:10 aspect ration....and i was like WTF?. I did a search on 16:10 and i found out that practically every widescreen laptop is actually 16:10 and not 16:9(16:9 is a bit wider than 16:10). it's hard to tell the difference unless you check the resolution both support. for example, 1900x1200 is 16:10(PC monitors) and 1920x1080 is 16:9(TVs)
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