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defunct_punk to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 1 year ago

10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player.

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10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player.

defunct_punk to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 1 year ago
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  • @Bocky@lemmy.world
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    18•1 year ago

    One day TV makers are going to switch to 9 by 16 screens, vertical portrait mode TVs on the wall. Im from the future. Check back in 10 years, you will see.

    • @shneancy@lemmy.world
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      25•1 year ago

      the problem with that, and a big reason why it probably won’t be adapted, is that portrait mode shows you fuck all, it’s good for showing one person (you know like a portrait) but if you want to show multiple people you have so much deadspace top and bottom. Landscape is just aesthetically better

      • @Scrollone@feddit.it
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        30•1 year ago

        Also, our freaking eyes are horizontal. There’s no way around that

        • @Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
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          12•1 year ago

          Uh, lie down

          • fmstrat
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            3•1 year ago

            You’d still need landscape video.

      • rockerface 🇺🇦
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        11•1 year ago

        just stack people on top of each other

    • @randomuser38529@lemmy.world
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      The Sero from Samsung back in 2020 is how it all started to go sideways.

      Or in this case, upways?

      • silly goose meekah
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        3•1 year ago

        I’d like to think the opposite of sideways is downways

        • @randomuser38529@lemmy.world
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          3•1 year ago

          Was trying to be semi-funny based on how the screen changes orientation.

          You are probably right though.

          • silly goose meekah
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            2•1 year ago

            Oh, I was trying to build off of your joke by saying that the change from horizontal to vertical video is a downgrade haha

            • @randomuser38529@lemmy.world
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              2•1 year ago

              Of course.

              Insert Homer_Simpson_Backs_Into_Bushes.gif

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