D-Zine - Screen Resolution :
RESOLUTIONS








Most screens have a resolution of 800x600 pixels.

Many have screen resolutions of 640x480 or 1024x768 pixels.

Very few users have other screen resolutions.

Note: You can see the current screen resolution stats on our main page.




If you compare the resolutions, it looks like this:

640x480
800x600
1024x768



As you can see, the proportions are the same. The height is 3/4 of the width - no matter which resolution we're using.

In the above example, you should notice that it shows how much content will fit on the screen, not how the screen actually looks. As we already mentioned above, screens set at high resolutions are not necessarily physically bigger than screens set at low resolutions.




Now, if we place the same red image on each screen it will look like this:

640x480
800x600
1024x768


The example shows that screens set at high resolutions
simply compress the content more than screens set at low resolutions.

The compression however, happens without loss of details, since the high resolution simply has more pixels on the screen.

If you looked at the high resolution page through a magnifying glass you would see that even though the content is compressed, it still has all the details from the low resolution page.

Another way to put it is -- an image viewed on a 30" monitor at a resolution of 1600x1200 pixel, looks exactly the same as an image seen on a 15" monitor set up to show 800x600 pixels.

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