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With ever-increasing frequency, footage from mobile
devices turns up on the telly. This is displayed in
widescreen landscape format, meaning that the vertical
and horizontal resolution and screen size of the video can
be compromised, and they clearly have no idea what to
do
with the side
bars.
This can be remedied by having a portrait format
television
channel, broadcast so as to appear at right angles to the
usual display. Simply take the screen and roll it through
ninety degrees.
Suitable for news and current affairs programmes with a
lot of viewer content, but also for displaying shots of
documents and paper publications more clearly, and of
course actual portraits.
I'm given to consider the possibilities afforded by portrait
format and how having landscape since the beginning of
cinema might have influenced stage and mind sets.
Auto-rotating digital photo frame, 2.4" version
https://hackaday.co...-image-orientation/
Mentioned in my anno [notexactly, Apr 09 2017]
Auto-rotating digital photo frame, 27" version
http://hackaday.com...of-vertical-images/
Mentioned in my anno [notexactly, Apr 09 2017]
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Next up: Video monitors that automatically rotate 90 degrees as
required depending on the input. |
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Or just make them square, I suppose. |
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Good point, that could be done. |
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//Or just make them square, I suppose.// |
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"Christ! I've never been on Ryanair flight that's had to land on such a short runway!" |
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"Yes, but just look at how wide it is." |
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I dimly recall an early computer monitor
(Apple Lisa?) with auto portrait/landscape
switching when the screen was manually
rotated. |
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Nowadays, most smart phones have a
rotation sensor and one can watch TV /
videos in either orientation. |
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You may be thinking of the Xerox Alto or one of its successors. Oddly,
the metaphor of an A4 sheet of paper in portrait orientation died
quickly but the other principles of the GUI survived. |
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When we see a landscape format we think of, well, landscapes and
stages. Portraits make us think of portraits of course, so maybe a
more selfie-oriented narcissistic channel would emerge, but I hope
not. I would prefer a culture of looking at the stars. I just wonder,
that's all. |
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So they did in fact incorporate that aspect of the Alto into
their design in the end anyway? Interesting. |
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// Next up: Video monitors that automatically rotate 90
degrees as required depending on the input. // |
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This has been baked a couple of times (in 2012 and 2016)
for photo frames, so adapting it to TV wouldn't be too
hard: [links] |
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