Asa 2.35:1 Display: 16.50% larger diagonal 35.72% larger area: 14.16% smaller diagonal 26.32% smaller area : Share your Comparison: 43 inch 16x9 display vs 35 inch 21x9 display
177:1 - HDTV aspect (also called 16:9) 1.85:1 - North American spherical wide-screen 2:1 - common shoe-box compromise screen aspect 2.35:1 - Commonly quoted, but often refers to 2.39:1 and 2.4:1 aspect, anamorphic wide-screen (aka Cinemascope.) Those are the common formats floating around. Yes, you do occassionally get the odd Soif you say pick form a 16:9 vs an 8:5 you will need to take the extra step to see the common number and multiply it by 2 to really see that 8:5 is taller than 16:9. 2.35:1 for movies. 1:2.35 for almost everything else. (Anything in list/text form.) What we really need, is a screen that can rotate as easily as a phone's. Forexample, with 16:9, there will be 16 units of width for every 9 equal units of height. Cinemascope is even wider with 2.35 units of width for every 1 unit of height. The HDTV aspect ratio is pretty much standard for all of the television sets made today. However, the wider aspect ratio (Cinemascope) fits the wide formats of most movies.