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I've always been confused by aspect ratios, too. I certainly know what they are; I can follow the derivations of course; but in the same way that it took the computer video business several years to properly understand "gamma" and color correction, I think there's similar slop in "aspect ratio". After all, almost every monitor has width and height adjustments. Some TVs and video monitors do, too. So where do people get off quoting aspect ratios to four decimal places?