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    Question of the Day: Widescreen or Tallscreen?

    AT&T's Lame New Terms of Service Hate Mobile Video From Sling and P2P

    Motorola DH01 Mobile Video Player Does Live TV and DVR Clips, Hopes Mobile TV Will Get Better
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    Image of ClutchWarrior ClutchWarrior
    07/26/09

    In reply to Question of the Day: Widescreen or Tallscreen?
    Tallscreen will be good the day we have our 2 eyes centered vertically.
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    TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment ClutchWarrior was starred ClutchWarrior was unstarred
    Image of TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.
    07/26/09

    @ClutchWarrior: +1

    "Tallscreen" formatted videos on youtube only have a point if they are "filmed on the side" so you can flip your cell phone 90 degrees to view it in widescreen.
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    Image of MIKEAWESOME MIKEAWESOME
    07/26/09

    In reply to Question of the Day: Widescreen or Tallscreen?
    I hate hate hate hate hate "Tallscreen" video. With a burning passion.

    The reason being it doesn't adequately replicate human perspective. It's like looking through a keyhole to me, or I almost feel like I'm inside a box and there are things to the left and the right that are just slightly out of view because of the perspective and it just drives me batty.

    Death to "Tallscreen"!
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    07/26/09

    In reply to Question of the Day: Widescreen or Tallscreen?
    Is this for recording video portrait (which is retarded) my step-mum does it with the digi-cam by accident sometimes.
    Or are we talking just rotating the monitor, which i get makes sense for some folks. and is perfectly viable.
    And if it's the former, does that mean iPhone users don't know how to shoot video?
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    Image of Crashproof Crashproof
    07/26/09

    In reply to Question of the Day: Widescreen or Tallscreen?
    turn it sideways.
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    Image of fanboy.took.my.star fanboy.took.my.star
    07/26/09

    In reply to Question of the Day: Widescreen or Tallscreen?
    tallscreen is the win if you got allot of typing, coding or reading to do....
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    Image of se7a7n7 se7a7n7
    07/26/09

    In reply to Question of the Day: Widescreen or Tallscreen?
    Tallscreen was the standard Colonial video broadcast format in the Battlestar Galactica mini-series. You could see it in a few scenes of news broadcasts when the Cylon attack started.

    Everything after the mini is shown as widescreen.
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    Image of psychiccheese psychiccheese
    07/26/09

    In reply to Question of the Day: Widescreen or Tallscreen?
    Like most other people, my eyes are placed horizontally along my face, and thus naturally see more width than height when looking at things.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    07/26/09

    In reply to Question of the Day: Widescreen or Tallscreen?
    I love tallscreen video.

    That way, I can single out the assholes who think they're the next Francois Fucking Truffaut because they have an iPhone. Listen all you fucknuts out there: just because you have a pulse and $300 dollars burning a whole in your pocket doesn't make you Vittorio Storaro.

    Don't be a douchebag! Shoot vid on an actual-factual camera.

    Now piss off!
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    Image of ernu ernu
    07/26/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: harsh but true
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    Image of FuturePastNow FuturePastNow
    07/26/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: I've shot video on my actual-factual camera while holding it portrait-style. My brain just automatically did it to get more of the person in the frame.

    Didn't even think about it until I played the video later. Oops.
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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    07/26/09

    In reply to Question of the Day: Widescreen or Tallscreen?
    Nah. Tallscreen can even be good for some things, like book/magazine reading, but that's it.

    There's a reason why Fullscreen became Widescreen, and it has to do with our viewing angle, immersion and some other stuff.

    Oh yeah, I'd also vote for number 5 if we could make multiple choices. *wink wink*

    Also, moronic opinions are moronic. Sounded just like those quotes used in awful movies trying to promote themselves...

    "This is the BEST MOVIE EVAR" - The Daily Uzberjidziquistanlian news
    "5 stars" - IMadeUpAReviewWebsite.com
    Winner of the mongolian yak prize for best movie
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    Edited by Bokusatsu_Tenshi at 07/26/09 4:29 PM Bokusatsu_Tenshi was starred Bokusatsu_Tenshi was unstarred
    Image of VenomIreland VenomIreland
    07/26/09

    In reply to Question of the Day: Widescreen or Tallscreen?
    Love that you added the 5th option.
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    Image of fanboy.took.my.star fanboy.took.my.star
    07/26/09

    In reply to Question of the Day: Widescreen or Tallscreen?
    i use a real camera to shoot video... even high quality camera phone video always has that "wobble" and "warping" effect....
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    07/26/09

    In reply to Question of the Day: Widescreen or Tallscreen?
    It'll be amazing when they release the Tallscreen version of the Watchmen, so that I can see what kind of dress shoes Rorshach is wearing in each scene without missing any of the facial action.

    WHOOPEE.
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    Image of D0rk D0rk
    07/26/09

    In reply to Question of the Day: Widescreen or Tallscreen?
    widescreen ftw.

    Though many of my co-workers at work rotate their 20 inch widescreen monitors to run 1050x1680 to read stuff better. Fucks with my eyes though because of the panel viewing angles. But this really isn't about monitor resolutions unless vertical 1080p becomes viable.
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    Image of Solertia Solertia
    07/26/09

    In reply to Question of the Day: Widescreen or Tallscreen?
    The first time I shot a video tallscreen, once I uploaded it to YouTube I wished I had shot it widescreen, because even though the video still comes out well, there's just so much negative space on the sides.
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    Edited by Solertia at 07/26/09 3:37 PM Solertia approved this comment Solertia was starred Solertia was unstarred
    Image of Nick Nick
    04/03/09

    In reply to AT&T's Lame New Terms of Service Hate Mobile Video From Sling and P2P
    do they pull this kinda garbage in Korea? maybe i should ask my ma how much family i have there and move. and if anybody asks North or South i will punchasize youre face.


    it's North. Naturally.

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