Why did we Abandon 4:3? | Nostalgia Nerd

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00:57-06:16 Film aspect ratios
06:16-11:34 HDTV
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[MaximRecoil]

The most annoying thing about the transition from 4:3 to 16:9 is that old 4:3 content (e.g., all TV shows up until the 2000s) often gets hacked down to 16:9 now when released for home video / streaming, or broadcast on TV. Seinfeld on Blu-ray is one of many examples. If I ruled the world, releasing content that was originally intended to be 4:3, in any aspect ratio other than 4:3, would be highly illegal.

[urnotme]

It's amazes me to think that (almost) an entire industry and multiple corporations were able to get together and agree on any kind of standard.

[marcanthony]

Not even kidding, my favorite part of using iPads is having a 4:3 aspect ratio that shows old TV shows in full-screen. It looks so good.

[davexmit]

I just wish TV shows actually made use of 16:9 instead of pretending to be movies and adding black bars.

[NoName-ikdu]

I remember a friend getting a 16:9 T.V. near the beginning of this transition when virtually all media was still aired, sold, and consumed in 4:3. He _insisted_ on stretching out the 4:3 images to fill the 16:9 screen because "he paid for the whole screen and was going to use the whole screen". I couldn't stand watching T.V. or playing games at his house. I'd always sit way over in the corner so my perspective of the T.V. squished things roughly back to normal.

[holden_tld]

5:47 bro just casually typing up death threats to his wife for a tutorial video..

[danielsripuntanagoon]

As a videographer, over the past couple years I’ve been shooting video in open gate 4:3 aspect ratio because of social media. This allows the footage to be cropped vertically or horizontally in postproduction. It was strange for me at first but has quickly become my default shooting mode. Specifically 5.8K 4:3 on Panasonic Micro four thirds mirrorless cameras. The extra resolution allows for both cropping and zooming in the frame without a noticeable drop in image quality.

[CaptainVideoBlaster]

"Almost everybody has 16:9 display? Well, we are going to put out this cheap Amazon Prime show at 21:9 so black bars will make it more cinematic."

[radanv]

I realized we are doomed some ten years ago: we were watching a movie in 4:3 so I switched the community room TV to 4:3 (from 16:9)...
"What's are you doing? We don't want it like this!!"
Nobody cared that the actors looked suspiciously wide and circles became ellipses etc...
They just wanted it WIDE. Because we can ..

[Wheeljackk]

The 16:9 transition always makes me think about the first X-Men movie. It's like the movie takes place in a universe where 4:3 never existed and it prominently presented 16:9 TV sets. Even the most rundown bar had a small 16:9 CRT TV.

[mysterynad]

It's interesting how long ago some these standards were proposed. I remember watching the director's commentary for Back to the Future and at one point Zemeckis goes into why the decision was made to present it in 16:9 ratio. It was originally shot in 4:3 as was standard of the time but was specifically cropped to that ratio because he figured most people who would ever watch the movie would watch it on TV long after the theatrical release, and the specs for future HDTVs had just been submitted so it seemed natural to choose that format.

[bobiboulon]

The black bars meant "we're watching a Movie". :)

[sdjhgfkshfswdfhskljh]

I like my 1280x1024 monitor - subtitles are positioned perfectly below 16:9 content.

[Zerbey]

The transition happened fast (surprisingly so), but those early few years when everyone was transitioning were pretty rough. Going over people's houses and watching a squashed 4:3 image stretched to fit the 16:9 display was something that still makes me shudder, and then you'd try to fix it for them and get screamed at because "those black bars are so UGLY!". Then there were certain broadcasters who just stretched the image by default. Fun times!

[ImnotgoingSideways]

I remember when IT wanted to swap out my 1600x1200 monitor with 1920x1080. Losing that vertical resolution annoyed me to no end. Suddenly dual monitors became far more prevalent in the office and the best setups were one horizontal plus one vertical. When 3440x1440 started showing up, I all but forced IT to set me up with one. It didn't take long for people to see me dock windows 3-wide with no bezel in between and instantly want an ultrawide of their own... with the IT guys being first in line.

[mymomsaysimcool]

I can remember working as an usher at a cineplex and changing the borders of the movie screen and changing the lens to play movies we called “Scope”. By the time the 90’s rolled around, I don’t think I ever had to do it.

Playing scope movies was annoying. Trailers were filmed normally so I had to sit with the projector and as soon as the trailers were over, you changed the lens with a lever.
During popular movies, there was always one person on weekend showings that would complain the 3-4 trailers weren’t fitting the “scoped” silver screen and quickly go complain so the manager would stand outside the doorway to catch the Karens walking up the aisle to go “speak with the management “. As soon as the trailers were over, they’d hear me rotating the lens with some light bleed through and everything was fine. During the week, we’d just leave it in scope and tell patrons that the trailers were going to be blurry and oversized.

[xsleep]

Don't forget the closer to square 1.19:1 in "The Lighthouse". Really adds to the feeling of claustrophobia. Or the 1:1 ratio of "Mommy" which almost appears like it's shot in portrait. And speaking of that, the rise of social media (Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube Shorts) means people are getting more comfortable with (shudder) vertical video.

[ditmarvanbelle]

"we" didn't abandon anything. It simply became impossible to buy anything else!

[bulutcagdas]

I found that strategy games play better (for me anyway) on 4:3 aspect ratio, because I don't have to move the mouse as much to the sides of the screen to pan the camera.

[Alias_Anybody]

Recently smartphones have become LOOOONGER again. As if I missed the black bars in landscape.