Boring, but important Question of the Day

bogwitch

Boring, but important Question of the Day

August 23rd, 2011

Current Mood:: curious

So tell me about your screen resolution! Future art projects my depend on your answers!

Poll #1772069
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 23

My screen resolution(s) is(are)

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1680x1050
6 (23.1%)
1024x768
1 (3.8%)
1280x1024
5 (19.2%)
1600x1200
0 (0.0%)
800x600 (seriously? still?)
1 (3.8%)
1152x864
1 (3.8%)
Other (see next question)
12 (46.2%)

My 'other' screen resolution is:

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My reasons for asking come from resizing a new Vampire Diaries wallpaper to post. I was looking at the stats for my website to see if the average sizes had changed in the last few years as more people get widescreen monitors. I was suprised to see 800x600 still resolutely sticking in there. How come? Are many people still using CRT monitors? And how do netbooks come into it?

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shapinglight

2011-08-23 07:32 pm (UTC)

Um...I'm not sure? Took a guess.

bogwitch

2011-08-23 07:43 pm (UTC)

That'll do. I just want to make sure I'm not making things in sizes that are no use to people. Not thay I really expect people to use them anyway...

spuffy_noelle

2011-08-23 07:49 pm (UTC)

Mine is 1366 x 768 is that weird? It's the default on my laptop...

bogwitch

2011-08-23 07:56 pm (UTC)

I have no idea. I think laptops have really thrown it open. Maybe I should just make widescreen and not-widescreen wallpapers and leave it at that.

quinara

2011-08-23 08:06 pm (UTC)

I think that might be the thing to do (not that I know anything!) I tend to use photos as my wallpapers, so I don't know, but don't most people just use the 'stretch to fit' setting for wallpapers anyway? So as long as you have the right ratios at a fairly high resolution, it won't matter too much?

bogwitch

2011-08-23 08:11 pm (UTC)

Yeah, I think it's the ratios that are going to count in the end.

I remember the days when a buffy screencap of half naked Spike was all I needed.

quinara

2011-08-23 08:16 pm (UTC)

People these days have no appreciation!

bogwitch

2011-08-23 08:31 pm (UTC)

I found explaining it all to my dad when he was fixing the various dramas a bit awkward.

quinara

2011-08-23 08:35 pm (UTC)

... Yer wot?

bogwitch

2011-08-23 08:45 pm (UTC)

He just didn't understand the beauty (and the juicy pain!) of what was going on clearly.

quinara

2011-08-23 08:04 pm (UTC)

Mine's the same! I'm on a widescreen netbook and it's the highest setting I have. :)

brutti_ma_buoni

2011-08-23 08:06 pm (UTC)

Yep, me too. We are the majority! And we had no idea!

bogwitch

2011-08-23 08:14 pm (UTC)

And clearly, neither did I. It's contrary to what visitors to my site are using. It may just come under the mjority 'unknown' stat.

curiouswombat

2011-08-23 09:28 pm (UTC)

Mine's the same - it looks as if it's pretty common.

bogwitch

2011-08-23 10:55 pm (UTC)

Is that a netbook? Perhaps it's common to netbooks.

curiouswombat

2011-08-23 11:01 pm (UTC)

No - this is actually the 15" widescreen laptop. I'm not sure what the resolution on the netbook is as it's sitting quietly in its bag at the moment.

speakr2customrs

2011-08-23 11:07 pm (UTC)

The figure I put in the 'Other' box is for my 26" widescreen desktop monitor; I looked up the resolution on my Netbook and it is 1366x768. That definitely seems to be an extremely common size.

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