Delderby Loc: Derby UK

[quote=Tom Daniels]Great question. I shoot a lot of video and stills. Because 16x9 is the size I use for my video
I have been shooting this size for my photos for years. To be honest I don't like vertical shots.
i think it is the TV's we have in our houses all being a 16x9 HD.
Someone said years ago that technology and the computer have locked out work
into what this format can do.

Apologies - got it wrong

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

[quote=Delderby]

Del ... came into this in the middle ... backed up ... still don't quite get the exchange between you and Tom ...

What am I missing here?

karno Loc: Chico ,California

Smells like Ben gay in here

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

Have no idea what that's supposed to mean, Karno ... care to elaborate?

Delderby Loc: Derby UK

You haven't missed - I cancelled a post that didn't make sense - I thought TV would/should go to 4/3 - but it would not work well for curved screen TV.
But speaking of curved screens - how about curved frames for those panos?
My thoughts on 4/3 TV are that where room space might be limited, it is horizontal space that might be at a premium rather than vertical space.
However, I am not personally in to big big TV - having been brought up on a 12" model!

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

I didn't realize you could do that, Del ... must be something special where YOU are ... no means to cancel, or delete a post, here ...

Is a curved frame for a Panorama shot, going to give it that "3rd" dimension?

Most folks here in America, now seem to use wide LCD screens for their home TV viewing ... popular sizes are 32", 52", 60" and 72" - although there are also some larger than that. Where space is at a premium - wall mounts are suggested. Most wide-screen LCD TVs up to 52" can be just stood on a table, using the stand that comes with it, approx. 3' wide. There are also "surround system" table speakers - which will support up to this size, and will fit in-between the bottom of the LCD and the table. When engaged, these speakers provide adequate bass, and a sort of quasi-5.1 channel surround sound effect. Usually, up to 125wpc.

Since the change from analog to digital - the same year Obama came into the White House, the old 4:3 TV sets were made, instantly, unusable, unless you also engaged a digital to analog converter-tuner. However, this did not allow for full digital transmissions. The only way you can get full digital transmissions, now, is with a wide-screen LCD TV. Anything less - you're wasting your time. A good 32" though, is fairly inexpensive, today ... just a few hundred bucks .....

Delderby Loc: Derby UK

Hi Chris
I will have to look at how to delete a post.
Curved screen brings us back to that illusion thing - but also - with a large pano a curve would provide an arc for same distance viewing - handy for many spectacle wearers? - vari lenses are up/down rather than side to side? Might save getting a cricked neck? Do you think that is why big screen curved TV was introduced? You may justifiably think I am being facetious, but my reading and computer distance is different!
Sound bars are now the in thing in the UK for audio and TV - magic sound quality - with woofers and tweeters and some even incorporate horns.
Del

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

But horns are in add-on units - no?

You can't put a horn in one of those flat things designed to go UNDER the LCD TV - can ya?

I'm not up on Pano ... OR Curved Screens ... I don't really see how a curved screen can excite 3D technology ... nor do I see how it can invigorate film-watching on an LCD TV .... although, my mind does wander back to the times when we had Cinerama in movie theatres.

But those were flat-screen add-on wings, to the left and right ... although it made the screen image bigger, it didn't help with 3D!!!!

I mean ... that went back to the early 50s ... today, we talk about 3D as though it's been here for years ... but, has it - really?

Here's a link for you, Del ... on 3D Cams ...

http://www.gadgetreview.com/reviews/3d-camera-reviews

Delderby Loc: Derby UK

Thanks for that. My JVC sound bar is an oval section tube about a metre long. Along a flat "top" are speakers to left and right, and the horns are in each end. Remote controlled with a small screen in the middle. Our DVD and TV connect to the bar with an optical cable. Requires a 3" space below the TV. Great sound.

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

Oh, is it?

I bought the Visio unit from Staples. When I first got it - I had it turned up to max. all the time. Within the 2nd week, I'd blown it! So, I sent it back ... got another one. Now, I watch it ... haven't turned the replacement up to max. yet. Still, it's a pretty good set-up ....

I saw the JVC one with its little screen in the middle ... doesn't it distract you, though, from the TV?

Delderby Loc: Derby UK

No - in any case we have it off-set to one side of the TV on a low side-board. But you get visi-blind anyway - do you notice the program providers name continually in a corner of the TV screen? I doubt it - after the first two minutes.

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

Oh, yes, I do, Del ...

It especially bothers the hell outta me, when I'm taking pictures of the screen ....

OR

Trying to read translations underneath ...

I wish they wouldn't do that .... or, put it somewhere else ... like top right, or top left .... ANYWHERE but under ....

Delderby Loc: Derby UK

CBSaction (The District) is top right in the UK (what my little lady is watching right now)

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

Ah, see ... the Brits are just a little smarter, aren't we, Del?

You know, one could always shoot the scene on the screen vertically, instead of horizontally ... this'd crop out ALL the print, huh, Del?

Delderby Loc: Derby UK

Better - stick Gaffer tape to the left and right edges of the TV's picture. Might end up as 4/3 format.