LG Introduces Monitor With 21:9 Aspect Ratio 311
skade88 writes "LG has released an ultra wide monitor. It really is wide (WxHxD: 699.7 X 387 X 208.5 mm) — take a look at the thing! It looks like it would be good for movies shot in larger aspect ratios such as 2.20 for 70mm film or 2.39 for modern cinemascope films. But OS GUI designs need to catch up to the ever horizontally expanding waistline of our monitors."
WTFGA (Score:5, Funny)
great. just waiting for laptops to follow this format as they inevitably will. then we'll be able to read up to 3 lines of text at a time!
The most important question (Score:1, Funny)
GUI designers (Score:5, Funny)
But OS GUI designs need to catch up to the ever horizontally expanding waste line of our monitors.
Yeah. My hope is that Windows 9 will offer some way to divide the screen into multiple views so that more than one document/application can be shown at once. Not just little tiles that zoom up to full-screen applications. Kind of like little, virtual screens that you could open to provide access to your content, like a doorway.
They could call them "Doors."
I'm surprised that nobody has come up with this already.
1366x768? Only if she's 11" (Score:5, Funny)
I like big monitors and I cannot lie
No other brother can deny
When a display walks in with an itty bitty bezel
and a 21:9 aspect ratio I get sprung
Re:The most important question (Score:2, Funny)
Re:WTFGA (Score:4, Funny)
Won't be long before laptops look like ironing boards.
Reminds me of a decades old sketch. (Score:5, Funny)
In a German comedy show (back in the 70s or early 80s) they presented an "ultra-wide-cimema-maxi-super-scope or something" format, where they presented a 100m dash run "in it's entirety" on screen from start to finish without panning or zooming. It was like about a 160:9 ratio. They apologized for the "slight black bars at the bottom and top" when presented on the 4:3 TV sets. Which was basically completely black with 2-3 scan lines lit in the middle.
Re:WTFGA (Score:3, Funny)
Won't be long before laptops look like ironing boards.
Hmm. If we make them buoyant and waterproof they can double as a surfboard. Too bad Apple owns rounded corners. ;-)