{"id":8282,"date":"2004-04-16T10:10:18","date_gmt":"2004-04-16T10:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8282"},"modified":"2004-04-16T10:10:18","modified_gmt":"2004-04-16T10:10:18","slug":"going-widescreen-do-the-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8282","title":{"rendered":"Going Widescreen? Do the Math!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re planning on upgrading to an HDTV or other widescreen 16:9 format TV, you may actually be losing screen space when viewing standard video 4:3 signals. The simple math is that a standard picture on a widescreen monitor will be roughly .81 times the size of the overall display, but if you&#8217;re too lazy to do the actual math, C|Net has a <a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.cnet.com\/4520-7608_7-1016109-4.html?tag=txt#bars\">handy calculator<\/a> that can show you how much space you&#8217;ll be losing on a widescreen, or conversely, how much space you&#8217;ll be gaining when viewing a widescreen signal on a conventional monitor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re planning on upgrading to an HDTV or other widescreen 16:9 format TV, you may actually be losing screen space when viewing standard video 4:3 signals. The simple math is that a standard picture on a widescreen monitor will be roughly .81 times the size of the overall display, but if you&#8217;re too lazy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8282\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Going Widescreen? Do the Math!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}