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This chart shows the most common display resolutions, with the color of each resolution type indicating the display ratio (e.g., red indicates a 4:3 ratio).
The combination (which occurs by multiplication) of both the pixel aspect ratio and storage aspect ratio giving the aspect ratio as experienced by the viewer.
Computer and handheld screens
Designation
Usage
W
(px)
H
Aspect ratio
Total pixels
Storage
Display
Pixel
0.001K1
Lowest resolution available for a pixel-based display
Quarter Quarter VGA: Nintendo Game Boy Advance LoRes, and some web-cameras and early cellular phones with color display. Lowest commonly user video resolution.
Uncommon, used in some lower-mid-market smartphone screens and as an intermediate screen resolution for some 1990s videogames. It is a 4:3 version of 360p:
NTSC widescreen, current YouTube 240p mode; screen resolution of some budget portable DVD players. Roughly one-third full NTSC-resolution (half verical, two thirds horizontal).:
PAL-standard VCD / super-long-play DVD. Wide/short pixels. Also a common resolution in early webcams / video conferencing and in advanced feature phones and smartphones of mid-2000s (ca 2006):
352
×
288
11∶9
11:9, 4:3
1∶1
101,376
0.73M9
Occasional Chromebook resolution with 96 DPI; see HP Chromebook 14A G5.
For television, the display aspect ratio (DAR) is shown, not the storage aspect ratio (SAR); analog television does not have well-defined pixels, while several digital television standards have non-square pixels.
Many of these resolutions are also used for video files that are not broadcast. These may also use other aspect ratios by cropping otherwise black bars at the top and bottom which result from cinema aspect ratios greater than 16∶9, such as 1.85 or 2.35 through 2.40 (dubbed "Cinemascope", "21∶9" etc.), while the standard horizontal resolution, e.g. 1920 pixels, is usually kept. The vertical resolution is usually a multiple of 8 or 16 pixels due to most video codecs processing pixels on such sized blocks. A widescreen FHD video can be 1920 × 800 for a 12∶5 ratio or 1920 × 1040 for roughly 1.85∶1, for instance.
The below distinguish SAR (aspect ratio of pixel dimensions), DAR (aspect ratio of displayed image dimensions), and the corresponding PAR (aspect ratio of individual pixels), though it currently contains some errors (inconsistencies), as flagged.
960H is a resolution used in analog CCTV equipment. 960H represents the number of horizontal pixels in a video signal transmitted from a camera or received by a DVR (Digital Video Recorder). The resolution of 960H depends on whether the equipment is PAL or NTSC based: 960H represents 960 × 576 (PAL) or 960 × 480 (NTSC) pixels.[29] 960H represents an increase in pixels of some 30% over standard D1 resolution, which is 720 × 576 pixels (PAL), or 720 × 480 pixels (NTSC). The increased resolution over D1 comes as a result of a longer horizontal scan. The difference is that whilst D1 has a 4:3 aspect ratio 960H has a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio. The extra pixels are used to form the increased area to the sides of the D1 image. The pixel density of 960H is identical to standard D1 resolution so it does not give any improvement in image quality, merely a wider aspect ratio.
Alternative analog video transport technologies carrying higher resolutions than 960H include HD-TVI, HDCVI, and AHD.
Notes
^LCD panels' resolutions are often quoted in terms of raw subpixels, misnamed "pixels" in manufacturer's specifications. Each real pixel includes one subpixel for each of three colors, so calling subpixels "pixels" inflates the claimed resolution by a factor of three. This bit of marketing obfuscation is calculated as horizontal resolution × vertical resolution × 3. For example: 640 × 480 VGA is 921,600 subpixels, or 307,200 pixels, 800 × 600 SVGA is 1,440,000 subpixels, or 480,000 pixels, and 1024 × 768 XGA is 2,359,296 subpixels, but only 786,432 full-color pixels.