The History of 1024
August 27th, 2010 | Published in Blog
Did someone just plucked that number off a tree?
Ten-twenty four by seven sixty eight (1024 x 768) is a specification for screen resolution that is common for at least the past 20 years. If you were around long enough, the early CRT monitors that carried this gigantic size needed to be 17″ monitors. Only leet haxors had so many pixels to play with, for their codes, tools palette and of course for the “movies needs”…
As time goes by, technology advances. We started seeing 15″ laptops running on this 4:3 aspect ratio specifications. Later, early LCD panels had it (but eventually went to higher stratospheric levels a bit later)
But why is this 1024×768 so popular?
It is because it was popular in the age of the internet boom. Where every school, office and homes have to have a computer. To a certain extent, we have to thank the Y2K doomsday predictors, for I believe they accelerated the computer purchasing patterns. Good marketing created the need to upgrade your 486 box with green monitors running DOS and hop on to this thing call teh internetz.
At the turn of the millennium, pixel density increase manifold. Just recently, that 1024 horizontal pixels by 768 vertical pixels got squashed into a 9.7″ IPS display found on the iPad. And if you think that is impressive, then the iPhone 4 has a 960 x 640 (not too far away) resolution screen on a 3.5″ display. Just head over to Apple’s product page website and you’ll get all the technical jargons explained.
1024 is very special because it is 2 ^ 10 scientifically. And if you divide the two numbers, you get 4:3 ratio. Recently, the geeks found out later that our eyes are more suited to a 16:9 ratio, much much wider. I’ve seen Philips TV that tries to mimic the cinema experience by going 20:9. Now that’s super long.. but unfortunately all content are optimized for 16:9.
I find the above 3 shots interesting for a couple of reasons:
1. WHOA!! Looks awesome on my MSI U135 netbook with Wimax with LED panel! The Macbook Pro’s screen is yellowish already and not as bright…
2. Green screens are awesome! With the power of Final Cut, it makes things so easy!
BTW, we’re a news company reporting on the share markets, also involved with Business customers in their video needs.
About Last Night…
I attended a YTL Communications “round-table with the CEO and team” session at Lot 10. One of the participants (Ahem, I know who you are), asked the CEO Mr. Wing “What is YTL Wimax’s USP?”
There was a long pause.
His team of experts had a slight pause as well.
Only a handful knew that he was referring to unique selling point!
I guess this exchange opened my eyes to the differences in education system, differences in the choices of words used, of personality, and how to answer tough questions. To me, yesterday was like Management & PR class. It was nice.
WOOHOO… It’s the weekend! Dinner with the family. It’s been way too long since we had a sit down quiet family dinner. Way too long!
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