Targus 4Vu Privacy Filter Screen for 20.1-Inch Widescreen (16:10 Ratio) LCD Monitors (ASF201WUSZ)

have you ever wondered why most tvs and monitors were that boxy almost square shape until recently well back in the 1890s thomas edison and his assistant william kennedy dixon introduced a device for viewing films called the kinetoscope this device displayed an image 35 millimeters wide yep just like film introducing the 4x3 aspect ratio but what is an aspect ratio well simply put an aspect ratio is the ratio of the width to the height of the image being displayed so this same four by three ratio was adopted by many movie and tv producers making it the standard for decades because that's how it often goes in the film industry once you've adopted a standard thanks to the cost oh my goodness the cost of the equipment it's really hard to run around changing it all the time and so it wasn't until the early 1950s that widescreen was conceived and this is kind of funny originally widescreen d