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What is the standard display resolution used today?

Postby Wellander » Tue 24 Aug, 2004 3:55 pm

Hi,
What is the standard display resolution used today?
I am just wondering.


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Re: What is the standard display resulation used today?

Postby Al » Tue 24 Aug, 2004 4:05 pm

Wellander wrote:Hi,
What is the standard display resulation used today?
I am just wondering.

Most people use 1024x768, but...
People that older OS set their screen lower than 800x600.
Most people that use newer oses use 800x600 or higher
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Postby Wellander » Tue 24 Aug, 2004 6:23 pm

Hi,
Anyone use 1360x768?
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Postby Antony » Tue 24 Aug, 2004 7:06 pm

There's no such thing as "standard" resolution, but there's the most common one.

BTW, it's spelt as "resolution".

My resolution - 1680 x 1050 (Apple Cinema Display 20") at home
and
1024 x 768 (Apple PowerBook 12") on the go.
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Postby Al » Tue 24 Aug, 2004 7:30 pm

I use 800x600 on my Win 98 computer
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Postby Andrew T. » Tue 24 Aug, 2004 7:47 pm

I personally use a 1024x768 display resolution, on a 17" monitor. 800x600 is the highest resolution I will tolerate on a 15" CRT, which quite a few people still use.

W3Schools publish display resolution percentages and trends on their statistics page. While this only reflects visitors to their website, their statistics for July 2004 are:

[tt]640x480: 1%
800x600: 35%
1024x768: 50%
Higher: 10%
Unknown: 4%[/tt]
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Postby beanboy89 » Tue 24 Aug, 2004 8:34 pm

Al wrote:I use 800x600 on my Win 98 computer

I also use 800x600 on Windows 98 SE with a 15 inch monitor.
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Postby Wellander » Tue 24 Aug, 2004 8:46 pm

Hi,
I use 1360x768 on a 17 and 21 inch monitor.
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Postby Josh » Wed 25 Aug, 2004 4:59 am

On my PC, I generally have it set to 800x600. My iBook uses 1024x768.
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Postby Mandrake » Wed 25 Aug, 2004 6:47 am

On my 17" monitor I use 1280x1024, and on my old 20" CRT I use 1600x1200.
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Postby DJGM » Wed 25 Aug, 2004 7:28 am

Wellander wrote:Hi,
I use 1360x768 on a 17 and 21 inch monitor.


There's no such resolution, unless you have a very unusual widescreen display setup.
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Postby Wellander » Wed 25 Aug, 2004 12:19 pm

DJGM wrote:
Wellander wrote:Hi,
I use 1360x768 on a 17 and 21 inch monitor.


There's no such resolution, unless you have a very unusual widescreen display setup.


Hi,
There is no such?
Image
It is on some fo my computers.
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Postby DJGM » Wed 25 Aug, 2004 12:49 pm

Since that's an unusual 16:9 widescreen resolution, do you have widescreen monitors?
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Postby Wellander » Wed 25 Aug, 2004 3:17 pm

Hi,
No.
Why?
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Postby DJGM » Wed 25 Aug, 2004 5:17 pm

Then why are you using a widescreen resolution on monitors that are not widescreen?

Or do you like to have the cinema style letterbox effect on your computer display(s)?

By my reckoning, you have computer displays that look like this . . .

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Why?
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