Think of it like simplifying a fraction: a 1080p screen has a resolution of 1920 x 1080, which divides down to 16:9. The aspect ratios you’ll typically see on laptops are 16:9, 3:2, 16:10 (which, for whatever reason, is called 16:10 rather than 8:5), and (occasionally) 4:3.

All TVs sold today have an aspect ratio of 16:9, which means that if the width is divided into 16 equal parts, the height of the TV or picture should be 9 parts. 21:9 is much wider, so parts of the screen need to be filled with black bars above and below the image in order to fit most TVs.

1920×1200 is a 16×10 screen (common for computer monitors) and 1920×1080 is a 16×9 screen (common for TVs).

1920 x 1080
1920 x 1080 (16:9) – This is the High definition standard, referred to as 1080i/1080p.

As the actual size of the image doesn’t matter, it is often easier to express this 4:3 relationship as a ratio. This means that if we divide the width by the height, then 4 ÷ 3 = 1.33. So 1.33 (or 1.33:1) is said to be the aspect ratio of a 4:3 TV image or television.

Companies like BenQ, Dell and Eizo, among others, still offer 16:10 aspect ratio monitors as of March 2021. These monitors are intended for photographers and video editors, digital artists, desktop publishers, graphic designers and business customers.

At the time, 16:10 also had 90% of the notebook market and was the most commonly used aspect ratio for laptops. However, 16:10 had a short reign as the most common aspect ratio. Around 2008–2010, there was a rapid shift by computer display manufacturers to the 16:9 aspect ratio and by 2011 16:10 had almost disappeared from new mass market products.

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