Display Resolution

Type	Resolution WxHxColor-Bits	Aspect Ratio‡	Total Pixels	Name	Use	PPI - Pixels/inch						LCD
Type	Resolution WxHxColor-Bits	Aspect Ratio‡	Total Pixels	Name	Use	10.5"	11.3"	13"	15"	17"	21"	19"	20"	23"
QCIF	176x144x8			Quarter Common Interchange Format. (H.263 Video)
CIF	352x288x8			Common Interchange Format. (H.320 Video)
CGA	320x200x2	16:10	64K	Color/graphics adapter		Handheld video players
EGA	640x350x4	1.8	224K	Enhanced Graphics Adapter		Handheld video players
VGA	640x480x8	4:3	307K	Video graphics array	8%	77	71	64
SVGA (†EVGA)	800x600x8	4:3	480K	Super VGA (Enhanced VGA)	18%		89	80	78	68
WVGA	852x480	16:9	409K	Wide VGA
XGA	1024x768x4	4:3	786K	Extended Graphics Array	7%				100	85	68
EVGA†	1024x768x8	4:3	786K	Extended VGA					100	85	68
WXGA ‡	1280x800	16:10	1.0M	Wide XGA				115
WXGA	1366x768	16:9	1.0M	Wide XGA
SXGA	1280x1024x8	5:4	1.3M	Super XGA UNIX Workstations	2%				120	105	85
Type	Resolution WxHxColor-Bits	Aspect Ratio‡	Total Pixels	Name	Use	PPI - Pixels/inch						LCD
Type	Resolution WxHxColor-Bits	Aspect Ratio‡	Total Pixels	Name	Use	10.5"	11.3"	13"	15"	17"	21"	19"	20"	23"
WSXGA	1440x900	16:10	1.3M	Wide XGA+
SXGA+	1400x1050	4:3	1.5M
UXGA	1600x1200	4:3	1.9M	Ultra XGA	1%						105		100
WSXGA	1600x1024	25:16	1.6M	Wide SXGA
WSXGA+ Apple 20"	1680x1050	16:10	1.8M	Wide SXGA+
WUXGA	24" 1920x1200	16:10	2.3M	Wide UXGA										98
QWXGA	23" 2048x1152 Samsung	16:9	2.36M	Quad Wide XGA										100
WQXGA	30" 2560x1600	16:10	4.1M			100 PPI
TV
NTSC analog	330x480	4:3	158K	40-58"
NTSC DVD	720x480	4:3	346K	40-58"
SDTV 480i	640x480	4:3	307K	40-58"
EDTV 480p	852x480	4:3	409K	40-58"
HDTV 720p	1280x720	16:9	921K	40-58"
HDTV 1080p/i	1920x1080	16:9	2.1M	40-58"
HDTV 768p	1366x768	16:9	1M	26-40"
HDTV 900p	1440x900	16:9	1.3M
More computer monitors
_	1920x1440	4:3	2.8M
AGP	2048x1536x24	4:3	3.1M	Accelerated Graphics Port	Digital
QXGA	2048x1536	4:3	3.1M	Quad XGA
QSXGA	2560x2048	5:4	5.2M	Quad SXGA
QUXGA	3200x2400	4:3	7.7M	Quad UXGA
WQSXGA	3200x2048	25:16	6.5M	Wide Quad SXGA
HSXGA	5120x4096	5:4	21M	Hex SXGA
HUXGA	6400x4800	4:3	31M	Hex UXGA		77	107	96
WHSXGA	6400x4096	25:16	26M	Wide Hex SXGA
WHUXGA	7680x4800	16:10	36M	Wide Hex UXGA		77	107	96

* Consumer usage in 2000 (55% didn't know)
HDTV actual broadcast images are encoded as 1920x1088 pixels because MPEG-2 encoding requires the number of vertical lines to be a multiple of 16.

† Note EVGA has been used for both Enhanced VGA and Extended VGA.

‡ WXGA can be 1280x720 ir 768 or 800 for monitors and 1360x768 or 1266x768 for LCD TVs

* Viewable area is typically less than the nominal size (measured diagionally) for CRT's.
LCD sizes are for viewable area.
Resolutions of 100 pixels/inch or higher are difficult to read on a CRT, however the clarity of flat panel displays make them usable at higher resolutions.

‡ Aspect Ratios: Width to Height
5:4 - 1.25, 4:3 - 1.33, 16:10 - 1.6, 16:9 - 1.78, 25:16 - 1.56
Note: Some LCD (e.g. Viewsonic VP171b) pivot to a portrait mode to give either 4:5 or 5:4.

Color Depth:
32bpp, 24bpp, 16bpp, 8bpp grayscale, and 8bpp pseudo color.
bpp - Bits per pixel

32 bit 16,777,216 (True Colors + Alpha Channel)

24 bit 16,777,216 (True Colors, SVGA)

16 bit 65,536 (High Color, XGA)

8 bit 256 colors (VGA)

4 bit 16 colors (EGA)

2 bit 4 colors (CGA)

1 bit 2 colors (monochrome)

24 and 32 bit modes produce the same number of colors - 16.7 million. They differ only in the organization of video memory (3 bytes per pixel for 24 bit, 4 bytes per pixel for 32 bit).

LCD Prices and Resolutions.

Cell Phone Resolutions:
Summer 2004:
  Motorola 176x220
  Nokia 176x208
  Sony Ericcson 128x160

PDA Resolution:
Tungsten T3 320x480
Tungsten E, Zire 72: 320x320
Zire 31, Handspring Visor: 160x160

See Audio/video here.
PC, Video & Multimedia at TDC
Television
NTSC 646x486 (N. America)
PAL 768x576 (Europe/Japan)
HDTV - High-Definition TV 1920 x 1080
QXGA -Quad XGA

last updated 8 Mar 2009