Non-motoring > Letterbox footage in news stories Miscellaneous
Thread Author: smokie Replies: 5
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New Tue 17 Nov 15 13:32 
 Letterbox footage in news stories - smokie
Keeping this separate from the France thread, but quite a few of the films which I would think have come from mobile phones are shown in a vertical letterbox style, with the sides blurred out.

Why would that be?

Here's an example.

www.lepoint.fr/societe/des-seringues-retrouvees-dans-la-chambre-d-hotel-de-salah-abdeslam-17-11-2015-1982254_23.php
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New Tue 17 Nov 15 13:50 
 Letterbox footage in news stories - Alanovich
Because they've been filmed in portrait mode, which is easier to do one handed on most devices than the superior landscape mode. Get on my nerves, it does.
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New Tue 17 Nov 15 13:52 
 Letterbox footage in news stories - Slidingpillar
Because the idiots who use their fobile moans don't twist through 90 degrees to landscape.

What you see is not the sides blurred out but something generated from the last few pixels on the left and right and expanded to fill the space. If they didn't, you'd get black screens on the left and right and TV boys and girls hate black screens.
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New Tue 17 Nov 15 13:56 
 Letterbox footage in news stories - smokie
Ahh yes, thanks for that, I can see what you mean about the blurred bits.
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New Tue 17 Nov 15 14:47 
 Letterbox footage in news stories - Cliff Pope
It gives a somewhat eerie aspect to the film, like someone peeping through a half-open doorway and creeping in stealthily.
Or shower curtains in Psycho.
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New Tue 17 Nov 15 14:50 
 Letterbox footage in news stories - John Boy
>> Ahh yes, thanks for that, I can see what you mean about the blurred bits.
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Yes, thankyou. That's been bugging me, too.
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