DIJ:
That's a 22" set. They only used 16:10 because they were too cheap to make a 22" panel specifically for small televisions, and that's a major computer monitor manufacturer.
No major retailer in the US carries something like that.
I just checked. Not Best Buy, not Circuit City, not even Walmart, king of cheap crap, sells 16:10 tv's even at that small size, from what I can tell. Maybe if you looked really hard you could find one model at those stores, but I doubt it. And even if you did... one TV out of 100 models is still effectively no TV's with that aspect ratio.
Taumel's right too. When widescreen monitors first came out, a lot were 16:9. Not much now, but two or three years back.
And that was probably for the same reason as that one LG TV you found. Back then there were no 16:10 monitors being made, but they were making 16:9 HDTV's, so whoever released those widescreen monitors first was probably a TV maker or two trying to branch out, like Westinghouse is doing now with their crapola monitors.
That's a 22" set. They only used 16:10 because they were too cheap to make a 22" panel specifically for small televisions, and that's a major computer monitor manufacturer.
No major retailer in the US carries something like that.
I just checked. Not Best Buy, not Circuit City, not even Walmart, king of cheap crap, sells 16:10 tv's even at that small size, from what I can tell. Maybe if you looked really hard you could find one model at those stores, but I doubt it. And even if you did... one TV out of 100 models is still effectively no TV's with that aspect ratio.
Taumel's right too. When widescreen monitors first came out, a lot were 16:9. Not much now, but two or three years back.
And that was probably for the same reason as that one LG TV you found. Back then there were no 16:10 monitors being made, but they were making 16:9 HDTV's, so whoever released those widescreen monitors first was probably a TV maker or two trying to branch out, like Westinghouse is doing now with their crapola monitors.