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LG will soon start selling some uniquely shaped flat screens, featuring a screen ratio of approximately 16:5.

Now, this should be fun to make a film for (unless the client asks you to protect for 4:3 as well). The screens will be sold from April, and cost from slightly above €1.000. Target for these displays are marketeers for now. Press release. If you don’t mind the disappointingly low resulution (at 1366 by 398 pixels that is a mere half megapixel) you can finally watch Ben Hur without any major black bars.

LG will first come out with two flavours of these screens, one with 1366×480 pixels, giving an aspect ratio of 1:2.8 and a bigger screen with a lower vertical resolution of 1366×398, resulting in a 1:3.4 aspect ratio. (via [norwegian])