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Started by Morgan Jul 8, 2000 at 4:23 PM 5 replies 650+ views

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Jul 8, 2000 at 4:23 PM

Okay, I''m looking at the possibility of including a widescreen (letter box, movie style, whatever you want to call it) mode for an app, but what is the standard height & width? Is the fov any different? Morgan

BASSOFeeSH

Jul 8, 2000 at 4:30 PM

I could be wrong, or there might be more than one, but I think that the ratio( or one of them)is 16:9

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Demon Lord

Jul 8, 2000 at 5:21 PM

Yeah, 16:9 is a common standard.

I think there are three widely used standards.
NTSC (4:3, common american TV)
PAL (not sure, I think it is 16:9. Mostly in Europe)
And a specific format used exclusively in France.

Only for cultural purpose. Use 16:9, it will be fine

aDasTRa

Jul 8, 2000 at 5:40 PM

most of my widescreen movies are around 2.1-2.35:1. according to trueSpace, the ntsc standard letterbox resolution is 736x398. you could probably scale that to 800x? or 1024x? rather easily, if you wanted to.

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Morgan

Jul 8, 2000 at 7:23 PM

Thanks everybody! I''ve been guessing up until now, but 736x398 does look right.

Morgan

TipTup

Jul 10, 2000 at 3:17 PM

16:9 is the mode used in Goldeneye and Perfect Dark for the N64... So I would assume that 16:9 is right....

Demon Lord

Jul 10, 2000 at 5:33 PM

736x398 is nearly 16:9 (16.64:9), so 16:9 is the way to go.

736x398 really are strange resolutions for a monitor, though, so I''d choose 800x600 with two 75-pixel heigh black stripes for a 800x450 resolution.

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