I swear to gourd I had NEVER SEEN a 5:4 LCD monitor in my entire life as a child but now that I want to perfect my retro setup the ONLY MONITORS I can find at thrift stores are all 5:4. Like why. Who is responsible for this. I don't want to spend all the money on shipping a monitor from ebay but I'm losing it.

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[–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I don't think I've seen a native 5:4 CRT. I imagine it's a lot harder to make a different aspect ratio with CRTs, since LCDs are essentially cut out of a sheet, while CRTs are molded glass.

With LCDs, though, 1280x1024 was a fairly common native resolution. If you were getting an LCD above 1024x768 that wasn't a widescreen, it was almost certainly 1280x1024.

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