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It's cool, but the thing I don't like about this dude getting so much play is that The Redhot Chili Pipers have been performing Thunderstruck for years. There's a whole genre called bagrock.
figmentPez
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What Teachers Make
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Mickey Mouse in Yodelberg
I'm digging the art style.
I'm digging the art style.
figmentPez
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Film buffs will appreciate this.
The Changing Shape of Cinema: The History of Aspect Ratio
The Changing Shape of Cinema: The History of Aspect Ratio
Non-film buffs find it interesting, too. Watched it at work a few days ago, it drew an audience of curious over-shoulder people.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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TIL commas in spoiler text causes the text to change when you click the spoiler.
Ze's True Facts About the ___ videos are priceless. Angler fish is possibly the best, although his latest one (mantis shrimp) had me laughing pretty hard.
A beautiful video shot over 2 years.
I will never be tired of this.
These True Facts videos had me crying just a few weeks ago! My favorite is probably the Aye Aye.
I feel like my parents need to watch that. I'm always trying to explain to them they're not losing image just cause its letterbox, nor are the gaining image just cause its fullscreen. despite my education in animation and film and my sister's education in film production, they refuse to listen to either of us.
You're just their kids, you really don't know anything.
A channel that does animated versions of memes has started doing meme rap battles. Here is one of them: the Most Interesting Man in the World versus the Old Spice Guy.
Only in Chikara does a wrestling match instantly transform into a baseball game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MYKRsJUR0s
And just like real baseball, it was boring.
Where's your SOUL, man? You sold it for a beard, didn't you?
It's not my fault that 90% of baseball is a bunch of people doing nothing.
So I watched this and I'm still confused. He threw out a LOT of numbers in a short amount of time and it honestly just hurt my head trying to keep track of it all. I understand the Fullscreen loses some of the original picture and distorts it. What I don't understand is why I still get black bars on my widescreen TV when I put in a widescreen movie. Keep in mind that I am by no means a technical guy, so any links to something ridiculously technical will just fly right over my head. It'd need to be something simple like Portal explaining something like "Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out."
Because widescreen tv's still don't have the same aspect ratio as most cinemas, which use a slightly wider format. The ratio for hdtv's was chosen as a compromise between widescreen cinema and classic television, so that while both would have to be letterboxed, the amount of letterboxing wouldn't be more for one than the other.
figmentPez
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In short, most modern movies are filmed wider than the 16:9 (or 1.77) aspect ratio that is the standard for television. I think movies tend to be from 1.85 to 2.35, though some are even wider. According to the video the widescreen TV aspect was chosen, not to fit movies, but to act as a compromise between 1.33 and 2.35. On a 1.77 screen, displaying either a 1.33 or a 2.35 image will result in roughly the same amount of unused screen.
A perfect game of Baseball is two people playing catch that nobody manages to interrupt.
You didn't say where these black bars are. Letterbox (horizontal top and bottom), or pillarbox (vertical left and right)? If you are pillarboxed, you might actually have a 16:10 screen. If you are letterboxed, your screen may be 4:3. Otherwise most likely you are not set at the resolution of your source.
--Patrick
figmentPez
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16:10 screens are more square than 16:9, and thus will show letterboxing, not pillarboxing, when displaying widescreen movies or television. There aren't many cases when widescreen content is going to displayed on a screen with pillarboxing present (and the only one I can think of would be one of the rare 21:9 aspect ratio televisions).
My computer's desktop resolution is 3840x1080
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?
(ok, granted, that's across two monitors)