How/why did we settle on this boring-ass aspect ratio as the gold standard?
How/why did we settle on this boring-ass aspect ratio as the gold standard?
Easton Barnes
Nolan Cox
>boring-ass
What, in your opinion, would be an exciting aspect ratio?
Bentley Ramirez
Triangle
Connor Parker
Something wider
Asher Evans
boomers
4:3, 5:4, 1:1
Ryan Taylor
Movies.
Josiah Gray
Sorry I thought we were talking about monitors, not TVs.
Owen Sanders
>4:3, 5:4, 1:1
If any of those resolutions were the gold standard you just bitch about them too and say we should all switch to 16:9. Contraian fags that think hating on standards makes them special is why tech is so slow to progress.
Oliver Phillips
It started in the 80's then eventually for various reasons everyone slowly crept towards it until the mid-90's when it finally became the golden standard.
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Noah Flores
It's just the best middle ground format that allows for all content to play with little compromise if you get a big enough screen. Everything else would hard punish one format over the other.
They made ultra-wide 21:9 tv for a while, they flopped out. Then you have the theory that with the advancement in CGI in everything film makers wanted the 16x9 format for a tighter framing of all shots as it's cheaper with less CGI. Same for TV shows. If they shot 21:9 you would have way more back ground and so on so more cost.