[OT] Why do so few people understand aspect ratios?

[Thomas Milne]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:59 PM, David J Patrick <djp-tnsZcVQxgqO2dHQpreyxbg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 10-05-27 01:30 PM, Thomas Milne wrote:
>>
>> I am not confused at all.
>>
>> What I meant was: if the original is in a _standard aspect_, there is
>> no _good_ reason to add the black bars, because any TV or display
>> built by a non-clueless person will display the picture properly, ie
>> the _display_ will show 'black bars' where there is _no image_.
>
> when you say "standard" do you mean 4:3, 16:9 or 1:1.85, because they're all
> standards and all in common use.

Exactly.

>>
>> I am talking about people deliberately adding black bars to the video
>> during encoding, not the fact that the display might show black where
>> there is no image.
>
> that IS stupid
>>  Of course that is normal, I'm not an f'n idiot.
> ok, just checking ;)

lol!

> To demonstrate how stupid even "technical" people can be, I did a job as
> cinematographer for a Telus internal corporate video, we shot it in 16:9 to
> be displayed on big 16:9 monitors.
>
> The job went swell and everything looked great, but the next job, when I
> went back to corporate headquarters, I saw the video playing and almost shit
> myself; they had, in a later post stage, squashed the 16:9 to 4:3 (making
> everyone stretched and distorted) and then added black bars to THE SIDES TO
> make it 16:9.. total debauchery !
> So if the big-brained Telus video team were such f'n idjits.. it's pervasive
> stupidity.
> djp

...but, if they just left it the way it was...I...

How did you not choke them??

-- 
TBM
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists