{"id":6909,"date":"2014-11-23T08:10:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T16:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=6909"},"modified":"2014-11-23T08:10:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T16:10:48","slug":"a-square-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=6909","title":{"rendered":"A Square Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hexus.net\/media\/uploaded\/2014\/11\/d439cf7c-a0df-4664-a467-3e5d11ce6fe2.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first monitors sported the same aspect ratio as a TV set. That made sense because the CRT was already being manufactured, so why pay to develop something new? And the format was accepted. But a square monitor? One with an aspect ratio 1:1? That&#8217;s weird!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nToday, widescreen computer monitors are the most popular. I had to special order a 4:3 monitor several years back. I always thought that widescreen was simply easier to manufacture. That might be the case. Regardless, people just seem to accept that a widescreen monitor is what you need.<\/p>\n<p>The square FlexScan monitor from EIZO is actually kind of cool. It&#8217;s dimensions are about the same as a typical widescreen monitor, although the device is as tall as it is wide.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to get one, but I just don&#8217;t know where to put it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hexus.net\/tech\/news\/displays\/77381-eizo-intros-flexscan-ev2730q-265-inch-square-monitor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hexus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hexus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wambooli-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6910,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909\/revisions\/6910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}