[CorpOverreach]

It saddens me that we've normalized the recording of vertical videos. There'll be so many more historical events caught on video... but it's now so much more likely that it'll be a vertical video. :(

[tamimio]

To be fair, the vertical recording here fits the context. Also, the fact that the recorder held the camera steady and kept the content within the frame is great by itself. A lot of times, you end up with shaky, useless footage.

[usefulcat]

> To be fair, the vertical recording here fits the context.

Briefly, near the beginning. But not for the rest of the video.

If you're watching a video on a phone, it's trivial to rotate the phone 90 degrees. On a TV or computer, not so much, so you end up with a ridiculous amount of wasted screen real estate and objectively inferior image resolution.

[notachatbot1234]

The subject is in a vertical orientation, so it is perfect and desirable that the original video has all its resolution dedicated to capturing the phenomenon in the best quality possible. A horizontal video would mean that there are less pixels on the subject matter.

[thanatos519]

Even worse this video appears to have been padded to 16:9 so I can't fullscreen it properly on my phone on YouTube web or app.

[wruza]

Can't you pinch in? Double tap? Something like that should work, afair.

[MattRix]

I wouldn’t be surprised if the majority of views also come from people viewing vertical screens, so it kind of makes sense? I personally have started to prefer the vertical format for certain kinds of videos, especially when viewing them on my phone… so I’ve also started taking more vertical videos with my phone.

[avz]

Phones can easily be oriented either way, unlike most laptop and workstation screens.

Majority of views certainly come from people whose eyes are horizontally next to each other and therefore whose field of view has a greater extent in the horizontal rather than vertical direction.

Admittedly I don't understand where the vertical recording fad comes from. Personally I take pictures and photos that are almost exclusively horizontal except in rare cases like taking a picture of a very tall building.

[amw-zero]

What a weird thing to care about

[gosub100]

It's a redditism

[JaggedJax]

To be fair, a geyser is one of the better situations to film in vertical.

[cbm-vic-20]

PSA: Vertical Video Syndrome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dechvhb0Meo

[VeejayRampay]

it's really sad that videos are recorded in the exact format that fits the medium used to read them :(

[m463]

aren't our eyes spherical?

[jaza]

Yes, but there are two of them, and they're to the left and right of each other, not above and below each other.

[DaoVeles]

Yes this is true, but we tend to favor horizontal information over height. Thus our eyes are horizontal. A decent rational would be because that would favor our survival since most things are pinned to this plane via gravity.

[whycome]

I mean, the action was happen vertically.