Post #1399733
2026-04-15 14:25 UTC
@beadsland Any effort to map aspect ratio a:b to aspect ratio c:d is going to fail, except in trivial cases. It's like mapping a globe to a map: you're SOL from the get-go. But both movies & TV eventually effectively lost to computers & just became data for corporate overlording.
To return to your original point: just go look at how many aspect ratios there are & your limited options about getting it on a screen. Did it affect content? Absolutely. How? Yeah, that's a deep well.
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@jhv@triangletoot.party 2026-04-15 14:32
@beadsland I came back to this later because I hoped you'd gotten better & deeper dives. I hope you eventually get more. When I look at video now, I see people *leaning into* obscuring the image. But it think (3:4 at 262.5 lines) × 60 frames/sec in black & white was gonna suck no matter what. My pet theory: we, specifically the U.S., developed TV too early, culturally & technically speaking. It should have been digital from the get-go, but that was impossible.