Complaint (trivial)

Jan 23, 2009 20:42

Attention to the following groups of people:
  • Bar owners
  • Movie screencap posters
  • Homeowners with new large televisions
  • Video website owners
  • Video uploaders to said sites

tv, me, failure

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halfjack January 24 2009, 05:08:39 UTC
I'm going to add a note to makers of widescreen DVDs, TVs, and DVD players:

Could we have an option to expand the image, preserving the aspect ratio, such that all the image is in the screen area but at least two edges of the image are at the edge of the screen? And after we get that, could we get the subtitles to be in the image area too?

I have watched altogether too many movies lately in a little letterbox in my big letterbox so that I could see the "cleverly" placed subtitles.

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substitute January 24 2009, 05:41:17 UTC
This is a command line option to mencoder so it's not, like, rocket science.

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tonight is "i hate everyone night" in case you missed the memo salome_st_john January 24 2009, 08:21:45 UTC
yeah but even "not, like, rocket science" is waaaaayyyyy above the functioning level of most semi-sentient human beings, and the vast majority of the population is not even close to semi-sentient.

so.

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I THINK SOMEBODY NEEDS A QUOLL eyeteeth January 24 2009, 09:15:00 UTC

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mcpino January 24 2009, 05:26:02 UTC
SURFACE TO AIR 4:3 MISSILE

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caladri January 24 2009, 06:40:31 UTC
That seems pretty important to me.

Though I've been tearing out my eyes a little at a time as I read G1 h4x0r1n9 fora on the Interwebs where lots of (I hope) teenagers are all "so I need to get root so I can make my phone awesome."

I need to get root so I can stretch to fit so I'm not wasting space also I wonder if those guys are the ones who buy FULL SCREEN movies.

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dreamyshade January 24 2009, 07:35:26 UTC
i once helped a teacher at my mom's school who had set her screen resolution to a bizarrely stretched ratio in order to make her desktop image fit to cover the whole desktop. she wanted me to do something else (make a podcast of some recordings for her class blog [!]) but i also fixed it.

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pigglet27 January 24 2009, 13:53:56 UTC
Ditto on the last line.

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