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Originally Posted by ephemera
Good point. I agree.
Sometimes its also about cutting costs: wide-screen is cheaper to manufacture than a 4:3 screen. apparently the wide-screen monitors are great for watching movies. but how many ppl watch movies on their computer? i don't :-P
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I do actually, but even if I wouldn't, there is some advantage to widescreens because the human vision is naturally more horizontally then vertically oriented.
The reason is simple, on the African planes there was very little reason for humans to loop up, and very good reasons to look around the landscape
16:9 ratio might be overdoing it though, especially with smaller screens ...
AFAIK 4:3 isn't more expensive to produce, rather, widescreens are produced more, so they're cheaper to produce per unit.