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Title: It's not April 1st?
Post by: parkdale on May 01, 2019, 01:33:12 PM
I keep pinching myself to make sure it's not April 1st :lol: i've seen it all now.....

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3074796/samsung-vertical-tv-idiots
Title: Re: It's not April 1st?
Post by: tubaman on May 01, 2019, 03:15:19 PM
Unbelievable!   :lol:
Title: Re: It's not April 1st?
Post by: Ronski on May 01, 2019, 03:47:42 PM
It's one of my pet hates video filmed in portrait mode,  why don't they just rotate the phone, even if you're only going to watch it on a phone its hardly difficult to rotate the phone  :wall:
Title: Re: It's not April 1st?
Post by: sevenlayermuddle on May 01, 2019, 05:34:44 PM
I can sort of almost see the point, as a presentation aid, or for still photography.    I’ve gotten a little bit back “into” photography in recent years, having previously been into it as a kid, but now swapped blackout curtains and chemicals for software.

I view my processed photos a lot on the TV, so I initially started to crop everything to a perfect 16:9 aspect ratio.   I soon  kicked that habit, because many photos have a “natural” shape that is nothing like 16:9.   Sometimes it might be portrait, sometimes landscape, and sometimes fairly square.  So when seen on my TV these days, most are either pillar boxed or letter boxed, to a greater or lesser extent.    After all, if you visit an art gallery, the best pictures are not all the same aspect ratio?

What I do detest, and makes my blood boil, is when BBC want to show some footage taken on a phone in portrait.   Instead of just pillar-boxing it, they generate some truly horrible synthetic effects to fill the black areas.   I can’t over emphasise how much I that, when simple pillar boxing would be fine. >:(



Title: Re: It's not April 1st?
Post by: Weaver on May 01, 2019, 07:19:15 PM
Same page (when I saw it anyway) said Samsung profits down by 60%. Or should that be "prophets" never can tell which it is going to be