16:9 vs 4:3 Video Aspect Ratio Statistics

Author: IPVM Team, Published on Feb 16, 2018

What aspect ratio do security integrators prefer? The 'standard' 4:3 or the 'wide' 16:9 one?

100+ integrators told us what they preferred, with a dominating winner.

In this note, we examine why integrators so strongly prefer 16:9, why they do so and what the tradeoffs are of these aspect ratios?

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Comments (3)

Brandon Knutson

02/16/18 04:44pm

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Lasse Sørensen

In reply to Brandon Knutson | 02/16/18 07:25pm

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Undisclosed End User #1

In reply to Brandon Knutson | 02/21/18 11:01pm

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