Vertical video is now a real thing at DVinfo.net
DV Info Net

Go Back   DV Info Net > The DV Info Network > Digital Video Industry News

Digital Video Industry News
Events, press releases, bulletins and dispatches from the DV world at large.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Old April 29th, 2019, 10:28 PM   #1
Equal Opportunity Offender
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Posts: 3,005
Vertical video is now a real thing

Samsung has just released a new TV that can orientate vertically to allow millennial mobile phone users to watch their videos the (cough) right way up.

See https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/29/1...te-millennials

Price is about $1600USD and units will go on sale in Korea.

Andrew
Attached Thumbnails
Vertical video is now a real thing-samsung-sero.jpg  
Andrew Smith is offline   Reply With Quote
Old April 30th, 2019, 04:37 AM   #2
Trustee
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Posts: 1,546
Re: Vertical video is now a real thing

If it’s anything like the Samsung 3D TV I bought it will be self limiting. The motherboard failed at 3 months (taking all the recordings it had made on an external HD with it due to the encryption) and the screen a week after the warranty expired. Can’t think of a more appropriate manufacturer to support the cause of vertical video.

I note the Sky News iOS app now uses a square format, probably because of so much UGC inappropriately acquired in vertical orientation.
Colin McDonald is offline   Reply With Quote
Old April 30th, 2019, 08:01 AM   #3
Major Player
 
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Philly, PA
Posts: 951
Re: Vertical video is now a real thing

Interesting. Probably is needed at some point, the youth seem to spend so much time on their phones. I wonder if some even watch a TV all that much.
David Barnett is offline   Reply With Quote
Old April 30th, 2019, 10:07 AM   #4
Wrangler
 
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Mays Landing, NJ
Posts: 11,787
Re: Vertical video is now a real thing

My daughter and son in law are in their mid 30's and spend plenty of time watching TV, also using a laptop in landscape mode. But their phones (and iPads to a lesser extent) are their primary form of connectivity, and they shoot virtually all video in portrait mode.

I really don't have a problem with this at all. Their composition is generally quite good and the vertical format works well in many cases. Aside from that, it's just easier to hold the phone in portrait orientation.

Remember the old days here at DVinfo? People would get into very heated debates about 4:3 vs 16:9. ;-)
Boyd Ostroff is offline   Reply With Quote
Old April 30th, 2019, 11:33 AM   #5
Major Player
 
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Milwaukee WI
Posts: 691
Re: Vertical video is now a real thing

If humans were meant to view things vertically, our eyes would be situated one above the other...just saying.
Jeff Pulera is offline   Reply With Quote
Old May 1st, 2019, 01:00 AM   #6
Major Player
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Norwegian lost in California
Posts: 890
Re: Vertical video is now a real thing

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff Pulera View Post
If humans were meant to view things vertically, our eyes would be situated one above the other...just saying.
Exactly:


-- peer
__________________
www.NoPEER.com
Peer Landa is offline   Reply With Quote
Old May 1st, 2019, 04:32 AM   #7
Equal Opportunity Offender
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Posts: 3,005
Re: Vertical video is now a real thing

It's obvious that 'vertical video' is just too narrow to be of use.

16:9 on the other hand is what we've always been doing with our central content but with some extra stuff at the sides. The world is finally trimming off these superfluous extra bits and coming back to 4:3 video on social media. It's the reality test for being effective.

Andrew
Andrew Smith is offline   Reply With Quote
Old May 1st, 2019, 06:54 AM   #8
Inner Circle
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Belfast, UK
Posts: 6,143
Re: Vertical video is now a real thing

Just to add that the vertical screen is used for advertising displays at various locations and on the screens at live events. However, for other forms it's pretty limiting.as a video aspect ratio, 4 x 3 makes more sense.
Brian Drysdale is offline   Reply With Quote
Old May 1st, 2019, 10:31 AM   #9
Wrangler
 
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Mays Landing, NJ
Posts: 11,787
Re: Vertical video is now a real thing

Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Drysdale View Post
as a video aspect ratio, 4 x 3 makes more sense.
Until you want to watch a 2.35:1 film, which looks like a band-aid across the middle of the screen. This looks really bad on an iPad, for example.
Boyd Ostroff is offline   Reply With Quote
Old May 2nd, 2019, 12:50 AM   #10
Inner Circle
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Belfast, UK
Posts: 6,143
Re: Vertical video is now a real thing

You need a big screen for scope films, either that or hold the iPad 6 inches in front of your face.
Brian Drysdale is offline   Reply With Quote
Old May 2nd, 2019, 09:55 PM   #11
Major Player
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Norwegian lost in California
Posts: 890
Re: Vertical video is now a real thing

Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew Smith View Post
It's obvious that 'vertical video' is just too narrow to be of use.
The vertical video "syndrome" is just a fad that's derived from laziness/convenience since people can shoot phone videos with only one hand. Simple as that.

-- peer
__________________
www.NoPEER.com
Peer Landa is offline   Reply With Quote
Old May 4th, 2019, 02:32 AM   #12
Equal Opportunity Offender
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Posts: 3,005
Re: Vertical video is now a real thing

I do wonder if the necessary use of vertical video in TV news stories (eg the only footage of a crash or explosion) somehow legitimises it as a type of video. On the other hand it's one of those things that can scream 'amateur' when compared to professional work.

Andrew
Andrew Smith is offline   Reply With Quote
Old May 8th, 2019, 12:22 AM   #13
Inner Circle
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Belfast, UK
Posts: 6,143
Re: Vertical video is now a real thing

Seems someone is marketing a vertical TV.

https://www.redsharknews.com/post/it...-a-vertical-tv
Brian Drysdale is offline   Reply With Quote
Old May 8th, 2019, 05:36 AM   #14
Wrangler
 
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Mays Landing, NJ
Posts: 11,787
Re: Vertical video is now a real thing

Isn't that the same product that this thread was originally about? ;-)

Remember, back in the day, when "vertical video" was a "real thing" for computers? We thought it was so cool to see a letter sized page in portrait mode. And it was also cutting-edge that it had a white background like a sheet of paper. Maybe Xerox started this, and Apple jumped on board with several companies making vertical screens. Then there were screens that could rotate between portrait and landscape view. That was long before anyone had a smart phone.

I don't shoot vertical video and probably never will, but it doesn't bother me that it exists. It's funny how this seems to really offend some of you guys. If you think of video as art, then why shouldn't the artist have the freedom to choose the canvas size they want? Or do you think that Rembrandt shouldn't have painted portraits?
Boyd Ostroff is offline   Reply With Quote
Old May 9th, 2019, 01:48 AM   #15
Inner Circle
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Belfast, UK
Posts: 6,143
Re: Vertical video is now a real thing

So it seems.

Vertical screens are seen in 2001 for the iPad type screens used on the Discovery.

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/...ck-invent-ipad

I'm not sure that Kubrick invented the tablet screens, he had good designers working on that film.
Brian Drysdale is offline   Reply
Reply

DV Info Net refers all where-to-buy and where-to-rent questions exclusively to these trusted full line dealers and rental houses...

B&H Photo Video
(866) 521-7381
New York, NY USA

Scan Computers Int. Ltd.
+44 0871-472-4747
Bolton, Lancashire UK


DV Info Net also encourages you to support local businesses and buy from an authorized dealer in your neighborhood.
  You are here: DV Info Net > The DV Info Network > Digital Video Industry News

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search

 



All times are GMT -6. The time now is 09:46 PM.


DV Info Net -- Real Names, Real People, Real Info!
1998-2024 The Digital Video Information Network