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Weird. Did they decide that resolution wasn't cursed enough to begin with?!
I wonder if HDMI requires resolutions to be evenly divisible by 8. 1366 was always strange. I'm not sure I've ever seen it on an external monitor, mostly just cheap laptops.
1366 is 768 divided by 9 times 16, to get an image with 16:9 (widescreen) aspect ratio. The 768 part comes from 1024x768, which was a very common screen resolution back when.
We have several crusty 1366x768 monitors kicking around my workplace, and none of them in regular use because they're awful. I am reasonably certain part of why they're so awful is because they are indeed repurposed cheap laptop panels slapped into even cheaper shells. Supporting evidence here is that they're all significantly and suspiciously lighter than our other monitors. At least this helps with their usual use case, which is carting around to be portable temporary setups for diagnosis and troubleshooting. Every time we need a spare monitor the boss inevitably winds up ordering whatever the first option is on Amazon when sorting by price, and that's how we wind up with these.
I notice several of them also run off of wall warts with really weird voltages. I think one of them we have is 8.5 volts.
I used to have a 1366x768 monitor. They're actually pretty common, at least here in Brazil