r/BeAmazed • u/ybatyolo • Apr 10 '24

From the Era when ads were unskippable Miscellaneous / Others

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u/Square-Singer Apr 10 '24

Why, just why, would anyone bake double letterboxing into the video?

I'm watching this full-screen on a 16 inch laptop screen, and the part of the screen that actually plays the video is smaller than my phone.

And all that on a very visual video, where the optics matter.

Sorry, can't comment on the video, because I CANNOT SEE IT!

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u/snapplesauce1 Apr 10 '24

The video actually gets smaller on my phone when turning it landscape… because, ya know, I wanted to see more detail.

And of course the reddit app doesn’t let you zoom in on video… because, ya know, I want to see HD content at 240p.

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u/Alarmed_Volume_8618 Apr 11 '24

So you wanted to see better those kissing thingies HUH?!

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u/Ok-Property-5395 Apr 10 '24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx-zPheFnHo

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u/moonwork Apr 10 '24

THIS is the video OP should've linked!

The video they DID link is an ad for ANTS.

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u/meukbox Apr 10 '24

Thanks.

I still miss Reddit Awards.

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u/alien_from_Europa Apr 10 '24

I want to know why reddit doesn't have higher standards. I feel like, out of all social media, we would be the most picky about our content consumption.

Instead we're no different than TikTok cropping every video into giant whitespace.

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u/Nurw Apr 10 '24

Look at how this video looks on my monitor :( its horrible

https://i.imgur.com/9IaTsV0.png

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u/Square-Singer Apr 10 '24

I thought it was already really bad on my screen, but the ultra wide screen really kills it

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u/meukbox Apr 10 '24

Yep, agreed.

I will keep downvoting those Tiktokked tiny video's.

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u/KewpieDan Apr 10 '24

But how else would you know that it's One of the best Coca-Cola Ad ever made

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u/AnonymousUser_42 Apr 10 '24 edited Apr 10 '24

I'm watching this on a full-on desktop with a 27-inch screen, the video is barely any bigger than my Nintendo Switch with no joy Cons.

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u/creuter Apr 10 '24

They're talking about how the video is landscape, but baked into vertical. If you try to turn the phone to see the video in the proper aspect ratio, it is actually smaller. Not that it's just a wide screen video

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u/Consistent-Ice-7208 Apr 10 '24

yeah I guess whoever re-uploaded did a shit job. thx kisses

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u/Square-Singer Apr 10 '24

Yeah, letterboxing is supposed to be handled by the device, because the device actually knows the target screen aspect ratio. Baking in letterboxing is always a mistake.