Interesting read. No wonder 16:10 feels a lot more natural to work with.
That it was. This excellent PDF deserves more coverage, so I will quote the original post here:
Can you stop being foolish? 16:10 has much better properties for creative applications, which the U2410 is targeted at.
See http://www.veritasetvisus.com/images/Newsletters/VVDS-30+31,%20February%202009.pdf
- From someone who was personally involved in the creation of 16:10. You cannot seriously argue against what is presented here. Just deal with it.
I think I have read nearly everything in there in different places before, but this PDF really puts aspect ratios together definitively in one place.
There is no doubt that 16:10 is a better ratio from almost any perspective, (productivity, aesthetics). 16:9 is just some poor compromise driven by committee that we got stuck with for HDTV and then propagated it's way into monitors.
I can't fathom why anyone would incessantly attack 16:10 monitors for months (months ago when they made my ignore list - please consider adding them to yours, rather than feeding them) and promote 16:9 like it was the second coming when all it is was compromise by committee.