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1. Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jun-2017 06:41:27 UTC Hallå Kitteh

   • Nate Cull
   @natecull Huh. Always assumed it was literally 4096.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jun-2017 14:50:25 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • Nate Cull
     @natecull Movies are 2.5:1.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jun-2017 14:52:03 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • Nate Cull
     @natecull Ah, now I read it again. So, movie 4K is actually 4096 wide. Weird to call a completely different resolution 4K too then. o_O
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jun-2017 14:53:56 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • Nate Cull
     @natecull Movie pixels probably aren't square though, as the projectors are anamorphic I think.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jun-2017 15:00:24 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • Nate Cull
     @cereal @natecull Your friendly neighborhood cinema.
     
     > In 4K, for Scope (2.39:1) presentation 4096×1716 pixels of the image is used
     
     Ok, so these pixels are actually a very close aproximation of square.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jun-2017 15:11:25 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • Nate Cull
     @cereal @natecull Looks like one cinema standard and one home standard. We've seen worse. :-)
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jun-2017 23:06:53 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • Nate Cull
     @natecull As a European, I find nothing not-awkward about Letter. ;-)
   • Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jun-2017 23:10:17 UTC Nate Cull

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     @clacke As a New Zealander, same. Letter is 'that weird broken American thing Word and Windows keep defaulting to, like Fahrenheit and miles and mm/dd/yy dates'.

     Hallå Kitteh repeated this.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jun-2017 23:10:27 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • Nate Cull
     @cereal @natecull Woah.
     
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widescreen#Types
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jun-2017 23:27:35 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • Nate Cull
     @natecull After going from 4:3 to 16:9, the next logical step would seem to be going to 64:27. Perhaps-not-coincidentally, that's ~2.37:1, pretty close to CinemaScope's 2.35:1.
     
     However, it seems that Ultra-Wide monitors sold now are called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21:9 , which normalizes to 2.33:1.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jun-2017 01:27:02 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
     @lnxw48a1 It already happened, as in, they exist. But I doubt they will replace the 16:9. On the other hand, I have made productive use of three 16:9 screens, so maybe an ultra-wide isn't such a bad idea.