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iPhone Not Really Widescreen?

By Ewdison Then on Wednesday, Jan 17th 2007 No Comments

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Cnet discovers that iPhone display isnt really widescreen. 1.78:1 (16×9) screen is what usually widescreen aspect ratio is while iPhone’s screen aspect ratio is 1.5:1. So the only way for iPhone to play widescreen content is by cropping and zoomingor by letterboxing the widescreen videos.

iphonenotwidescreen

The snapshots of videos above show the difference between iPhone’s and Apple TV’s widescreen output.

iPhone’s downsized wide screen [via crave]
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