Jeff Atwoodit's disturbing how quickly I went from "1080p is amazing!" to "1080p is utter garbage, where's the native 4k version?!"
❓ucblockhead@codinghorror I know intellectually that I used to watch everything on a 480i 4:3 36" screen across the living room, but psychologically I can no longer understand how that even worked.
Brendan B.@ucblockhead @codinghorror television was considered a medium of head-and-shoulders and closeup compositions for a reason.
@distinct @ucblockhead Charlie Day has a whole rant about this, and he's kinda right? https://www.cracked.com/article_36431_its-always-sunny-charlie-day-and-rob-mcelhenney-fight-as-much-off-screen-as-they-do-on-screen.html
@codinghorror @ucblockhead I don’t disagree! (also the only version of the X-Files I can get right now is a HD 16 x 9 crop from the 4 x 3 and I absolutely despise it. Just way too into everybody’s personal space)
@distinct @ucblockhead it is a fascinating deep dive into how the format you view something fundamentally changes what it is
@codinghorror @ucblockhead as a photographer on the side I think about this a lot when I suddenly got a lot less confident about the impact of a gorgeous wide shot I was editing on my 5K 27in monitor as I’m about to post it as a little Instagram square on my phone.
@distinct @ucblockhead plus the whole vertical video thing which has kinda taken over