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way OT, cell phone videos on the news

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Mike(NEOhio)

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Kind of a petty little rant here, but can somebody explain to me why most every news program shows cell videos with the same image blurred on the outer thirds of the screen. Bad enough that it's like peeping through a cracked door, and no one seems to be able to hold a phone steady. Then adding the blurred side images makes it worse. Yeah, there are more important things to worry about, just wondering why they all do it that way, or is there a technical reason?
 
I've always figured they're trying to mask that it's from a cell phone -- in a way sort of sensationalizing the video by making it "bigger".
 
Firstly most people with "smart" phones, the phone is smarter than them. They take the video wrong way around so the network adds those blurry sides to fix it up. Also the twit takeing the video has no idea how to hold a camera still so as to make a quality video. Amateurs.
 
local news channels always asking for videos. Most the time they say to please turn the phone sideways to avoid the blurred out sides.
 
I haven't noticed that.

I don't watch the hokey "local news".

Or much TV at all.

Hope I'm not missing anything.

U mite try it, as well, it costs NOTHING to shut off the "idiot box".

Or AM I missing something of a learning or cultural nature????
 
Always notice when people don't seem to know enough to hold the phone sideways for photo and video. Its not hard to do. I shoot a lot of my youtube video using the I phone. Works great if you know how to hold the phone.
 

I guess technology hasn't advanced enough to have the video shoot in landscape view rather than portrait orientation regardless which way the phone is held. Maybe some geek is working on this as we speak. TDF
 
That topic was not covered in the six pages of instructions that came with my cell phone.
 
In the circumstances where these videos are taken, it is usually not a staged scene where, "Okay, you set your car on fire and start driving. We'll pull up beside you and start acting all frantic, trying to get you to pull over, but you ignore us. Got it? Good, aaaaaaaaaand.... ACTION!"

The person has to get their phone out quick to record what's happening. There is no time to set up the shot.

Television producers must feel that leaving the space on the sides of the video empty is too distracting and confusing for most people, so they fill in with a blurred version of the video.

I would not doubt but people have called the station complaining that there was something wrong with the broadcast when they saw the black stripes down the sides.
 
I quit watching 'news' a couple years ago. The little I see, your issue grates on my nerves as well.

I don't have a cell phone, but would about die without access to my iPad for 24 hours......

Are cell phone owners too stupid to turn their phone 1/4 and get a real video of what they are trying to shoot? I thought most phones these days had a better camera than the tall thin deal anyhow.

Like you say it's not earth shattering deal, really of little importance, but it does grate on me as well?
 
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