"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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
@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.
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
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.
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.
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.
"The Philips 56PFL9954H Cinema 21:9 uses the same aspect ratio of most movies out there."
I'm not sure this is true. I'd bet there are more movies in 1.85:1 than 2.39:1 (or 2.35:1). Either way, unless you watched movies shot exclusively in that aspect ratio, you'd still have black bars pretty often. So Philips wants a 3x premium for not solving a problem. Am I missing something?
@James Belcher: No, you're not missing anything. Gizmodo is wrong, most movies are not "scope" ratio. Big budget blow-shit-up movies are often 2.35:1 but they are outnumbered by all the other genres which are more often in the 1.85:1 neighborhood. Many films made outside the U.S. are 1.66:1. And let's not forget the classics that are "academy ratio" 1.37:1 and all the television shows that are 1.33:1.
A 21:9 screen is a bad idea, because while it pretty much eliminates the black bars on top and bottom of a 2.35:1 movie, it requires black bars on the sides of everything that is not as wide. It is a fortunate coincidence that 16:9 is very close to 1.85:1 as well as being close to halfway between 2.35:1 and 1.33:1, which makes it a good compromise for viewing all ratios.
Furthermore, Blu-ray doesn't have "anamorphic 21:9" akin to the way DVD does 16:9. A 2.35:1 movie on Blu-ray has vertical resolution of about 800 pixels and the rest of the 1080 is black bars, and there is NOTHING this 21:9 monitor can do to improve that.
@WB: While it may be true that 21:9 is only the main aspect ratio for blow shit up movies, those are the types of movies that people buy HDTVs for and the movies where immersion is a big deal. Most people don't buy an HDTV to watch chick flicks and they are not the type of movie where having black bars is as big of a deal.
Yes, it is true that this TV does nothing about blu-ray movies not having anamorphic widescreen for 21:9 like DVD has for 16:9, but the article states that.
@ceilingFANBOY: No, most people buy HDTVs to watch anything and everything, not just blow-shit-up movies. More people tuned in to see the finale of American Idol than bought tickets to see Transformers 2 last weekend.
@WB: Yes, people will watch everything on their HDTV. However, you don't know how many people watched American Idol in HD, watching a show on TV is not equal to going to see a movie, and I'm sure the majority of whatever people did watch American Idol in HD did not buy their HDTV so they can see American Idol in HD. They probably bought it to see other things in HD but watch whatever other things they watch in HD if it's available in HD.
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"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.
07/26/09
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"!
07/26/09
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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Everything after the mini is shown as widescreen.
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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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Didn't even think about it until I played the video later. Oops.
07/26/09
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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WHOOPEE.
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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.
07/26/09
07/01/09
I'm not sure this is true. I'd bet there are more movies in 1.85:1 than 2.39:1 (or 2.35:1). Either way, unless you watched movies shot exclusively in that aspect ratio, you'd still have black bars pretty often. So Philips wants a 3x premium for not solving a problem. Am I missing something?
07/01/09
A 21:9 screen is a bad idea, because while it pretty much eliminates the black bars on top and bottom of a 2.35:1 movie, it requires black bars on the sides of everything that is not as wide. It is a fortunate coincidence that 16:9 is very close to 1.85:1 as well as being close to halfway between 2.35:1 and 1.33:1, which makes it a good compromise for viewing all ratios.
Furthermore, Blu-ray doesn't have "anamorphic 21:9" akin to the way DVD does 16:9. A 2.35:1 movie on Blu-ray has vertical resolution of about 800 pixels and the rest of the 1080 is black bars, and there is NOTHING this 21:9 monitor can do to improve that.
07/01/09
Yes, it is true that this TV does nothing about blu-ray movies not having anamorphic widescreen for 21:9 like DVD has for 16:9, but the article states that.
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