Android Central‘s Alex Dobie made this point to me in the buildup to Samsung’s Galaxy S8 launch yesterday: a 5.8-inch phone with the S8’s elongated 18.5:9 aspect ratio doesn’t have the same size ...

Just a couple of days ago we got the news that HBO's The Wire (in its remastered form) would be available on HBO Go starting December 26th, followed by the HD edition of the series going up for ...

Aspect ratio measures the relationship between the width and height of a display, sensor, or image. A common aspect ratio is 16:9, which means it's 16 units wide and 9 units high. There are many ...

16:9, 4:3, 2.0:1, 2.35:1 – so many numbers, so little time. Here’s what they all mean. Aspect Ratio is a term that defines the shape or relative dimensions of a still image, film or video content. It ...

Now that LG has launched the G6 we have a couple of new phrases to add to our vocabularies, “18:9 aspect ratio” and “FullVision”. So what is an aspect ratio? What is 18:9? Why isn’t it called a 2:1 ...

One result of DTV is that we now frequently find ourselves dealing with multiple aspect ratios. A multiplicity of picture aspect ratios has always existed in film and cinema, but decades of television ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Way back before advanced television became a part of our world, most television engineers did not ...