Bert is not a Millennial, so I doubt he will rush out to buy a Samsung Sero.
I cannot help but remember all the years that Bert and I debated TV aspect
ratios, and Bert’s contention that the new 16:9 aspect ratio would be the one
screen to rule the world of television for the next century.
At the time I noted that there is no single aspect ratio for still images - the
content dictates the ways in which still images are cropped for display.
Far more important, however, was the concept that digital video compression
does not care about image aspect ratios; any image can be defined and encoded
using an arbitrary number of H & V blocks. This is why we created the
resolution and aspect ratio independent digital image hierarchy in the
SMPTE/EBU Task Force Report on Digital Image Architecture.
Clearly Bert missed this critical aspect of the digital TV transition. Video
formats are all but dead. Only the legacy TV types still care about 16:9.
Meanwhile the world has moved on.
1080i is SOoooooooo last century!
Regards
Craig
On Apr 29, 2019, at 10:10 AM, Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/29/18522287/samsung-sero-vertical-tv-price-release-date-millennials
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