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10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player. (lemmy.world)
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[–] insomniac_lemon@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Sometimes you'll see a landscape video letterboxed into a portrait video, just to make sure it's terrible no matter which way you view it (but extra bad watching on a landscape monitor). So I don't see this as a badge of anything.

On a sidenote, I've noticed video cropping is pretty nice on a phone (widescreen+landscape) depending on the content (I got an OLED phone free because the screen is cracked). Like Wall-e is pretty good like that. Also the music video for Long-Legged Larry (some things are cut off but not enough that it detracts from understanding)