On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:48:17 -0800 Brian Conrad wrote: > No one is really sure why Edison's engineer chose 4:3 > though they think it had something to do with the sprocket hole > placement.
I believe the first TV's were 1:1, they would have been round except it's expensive to make round glass. The square glass covers the round edges of the pictures produced by a cathode ray tube. > And believe the > actual argument goes our eyes see more like 21:9 than a square canvas > (unless you're myopic). There was a good article the other day on why > 4K HDTV for the home didn't make sense though they do for theaters. We > get 16:9 displays on devices probably because the LCD market went that > direction and the desire for users to play videos on them. I don't believe that, probably stemming from the too simple a test about moving fingers in front of your face I've seen by a university PHOTOGRAPHY LECTURER, not a biologist or brain specialist, we have a focal point as re-affirmed by the uk christmas lectures this year and it has more to do with the creators job and cinema wall shape than the viewer which is what it should be about. We do use peripheral vision to decide to move our focus, and eyelashes etc. may slighlty restrict the vertical but the finger exercise has more to do with the brain having the ability to decide which plane to prioritse at any given moment. Vertical for Batman jumping off a building for example, that was cool at IMAX. There is no getting away from the fact our pupils are round and IMAX which is 4:3 and charges a premium is far more immersive. I'm not even sure (I'll start trying it on my tablet) of 16:9 being better for text, it's certainly easier to hold a floppy piece of paper in that shape and people do stop reading sooner apparently if web page lines are too wide, I guess because it feels like they are not getting through the text and will be there all day. I know I prefer 4:3 over 16:9 for browsing in landscape. Everyone I've ever met hates 21:9. Ask this, why do DVDs on TV almost always have black lines and yet cinemas want the largest pictures possible. Cinema = >$ is my suspicion. -- Kc -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
