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Aspect ratio history

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The 4:3 aspect ratio was picked by Edison's people, back in the 1890s. The standard just stuck, and tv carried it on. Hollywood started making wide-screen films in the mid-fifies, well after the NTSC tv standards had been set at 4:3.

In Europe the standard film format is 1.66 instead of 1.85 like here.

16:9, at 1.78, was a compromise between the European and US standards.


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