{"id":3129,"date":"2012-06-10T08:32:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T12:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3129"},"modified":"2012-06-10T08:32:23","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T12:32:23","slug":"more-widescreen-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3129","title":{"rendered":"More widescreen insanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2792\">fun never ends<\/a>. Here are a few recent screen captures from CBC Newsworld, illustrating how originally widescreen material is letterboxed to a standard definition frame, which is then letterboxed into a widescreen frame, which is then letterboxed into a standard definition frame, which then appears on a widescreen monitor&#8230; welcome to the era of postage stamp television images. My favorite is the second one, the screen shot from Prometheus&#8230; for some inexplicable reason, they actually further compressed vertically (or stretched horizontally?) an already widescreen image.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/capture_20120605_174420.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3130\" title=\"capture_20120605_174420\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/capture_20120605_174420-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"417\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/capture_20120605_174420-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/capture_20120605_174420-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/capture_20120605_174420.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/capture_20120608_154849.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3131\" title=\"capture_20120608_154849\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/capture_20120608_154849-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"417\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/capture_20120608_154849-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/capture_20120608_154849-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/capture_20120608_154849.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/capture_20120610_081300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3132\" title=\"capture_20120610_081300\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/capture_20120610_081300-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"417\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/capture_20120610_081300-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/capture_20120610_081300-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/capture_20120610_081300.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course marketers knew what they were doing. They knew that most people cannot tell the difference between a resolution of, say, 640&#215;480 vs. 1024&#215;768. So they changed the aspect ratio. And of course they aren&#8217;t describing the result as being reduced in height, stunted perhaps; they tell you that it is <em>wider<\/em>. Wider is good, right?<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3129' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fun never ends. Here are a few recent screen captures from CBC Newsworld, illustrating how originally widescreen material is letterboxed to a standard definition frame, which is then letterboxed into a widescreen frame, which is then letterboxed into a standard definition frame, which then appears on a widescreen monitor&#8230; welcome to the era of <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3129' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-television","category-12-id","category-28-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3129"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3136,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions\/3136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}