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In Reply to: 4:3 math vs 16:9 math posted by DavidLD on August 18, 2007 at 05:22:37:
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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- Aspect ratio history - bshapiro 14:30:59 08/18/07 (5)
- RE: Aspect ratio history - unclestu52 19:36:11 08/18/07 (4)
- 35mm - David Aiken 22:44:24 08/19/07 (3)
- RE: 35mm - unclestu52 13:27:31 08/20/07 (2)
- RE: 35mm - David Aiken 23:07:25 08/20/07 (1)
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