A 16:18 display is coming!
I was hesitant to buy into 21:9 displays and went with a 16:9 monitor, as 16:10 are uncommon and pricey. LG is switching it up with new proportions!
Isn’t 16:18 just 18:16 rotated, and isn’t 18:16 really close to 5:4?
Are we going backwards? Was the panoramic trend the wrong way? Will @wendell love it?
I saw the article on Ars referring to it as DualUp which I had to read a few times as it sounds a lot like Dial Up.
I’m no Wendell, …
…but a lot of my colleagues used to keep pairs of vertical 4k side by side, which is 18*16 with a bezel down the middle, and I thought LG experimenting with aspect ratios is really cool.
I could get behind this. It would be very nice to stack two of them side by side for my development workflow.
That said, I’m sure its going to be like an $800 MSRP
I was fixing to say, my Kentucky education wasn’t great but I did learn you were supposed to reduce ratios to the basic form
That’s 8:9
Although I suppose that would make 16:10, 8:5
21:9, 7:3
Sounds way better than 16:18 lol
So I’ve been rocking a 21:9 for a while and it really only works with a tiling window manager. I’m happy to see these more square displays coming back in vogue, but I don’t think I would want it for gaming. Ultrawide gaming is just so much better IMO, but for productivity, I will definitely appreciate the aspect ratio.
I suspect various monitor sizes are the last gasp before headsets in a glasses form factor.
I saw resolution of 2560x2880 listed, on the Ars article.
Like 2 1440p monitors stacked on top of each other.
Which makes it sound more… reasonable?
I think this concept of 8:9 is sound, if it does not end up like 21:9 panels, namely overpriced. You can get a good 2560x1440 144Hz display for the same money as a 2560x1080 75Hz. This is bananas.
But I still feel like we had a good productive display ratio with 4:3 or 5:4 already.
Maybe with such ‘extreme’ concept out there we will see a 16:10 resurgence at least.
Or 8:5 
I completely understand this product as it’s basically two 16:9 panels stacked one on top of the other. That’s a setup I want myself.
I do fear it will be the same as just about every form factor other than 16:9 where they’re notably more expensive than just two 16:9 monitors. I guess the value is in the eye of the beholder though. Or whoever LG gives free products to for marketing.
EDIT: If my math is right a 28" 16:18 monitor is as wide as a 21.5" 16:9 monitor. That’s not a very wide screen.
My only issue is that it is basically useless for entertainment. Imagine playing anything other than emulated DS games on this.
Also, regarding cost, its a function of volume, for sure.
But like the Failed 1/3lb burger, 16 sounds at least big as a current monitor, 8 is half that. Can’t go confusing your loyal moro… customers.
Why not just go for a square display? 16:18 is almost there anyways
Because of things like movies and games that are standardised around 16:9 for the ui elements and framing. So if you suddenly lop off a little vertical height or add a little width, scaling starts be get odd and no one like black bars least of which the marketing team…
If it isn’t trash we all will
16x10 is basically the golden ratio.
It’s the correct aspect. 
a (or multiple) rotatable 16:10 = peak monitor, until we get lightweight decent glasses
Big Brain Shower Thoughts:
thus i deduce
I mean - Profit!Bonus picture (1st result in google images)
is that a thing?
