We’re getting vertical streams before 21:9 aspect ratio support. Come on
this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2025
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Ultrawide is extremely niche compare to vertical resolutions/aspect ratio. It's not even close.
Ah, yes
We were warned, but allowed it to become endemic.
"Youtube will begin showing 4 videos at once"
The average YouTube short:
Edit: It's called "Sludge content": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sludge_content
Which reminds me of a certain part from Back to the future too. I'll try to search for it, but my DVD drive is currently occupied
Edit 2:
Part 2 at 30:27 (at least on PAL edition)
I mean across all display devices, not just monitors.
Dont get me wrong, while I don't have an ultrawide, I've seen some of them in store and they look wonderful. It's almost like being in the future.
That being said, it's clear that vertical resolutions/aspect ratios are far more widespread.
I understand that the overwhelming majority of people will still continue streaming at 16:9, or the vertical equivalent. It's not just about ownership of ultrawide displays. It's about support for such output format, for people who do want it. But even going by your own example, a ton of phones are 19.5:9, with some models straight up being 21:9
Getting vertical video before modern codecs (AV1∨HEVC), and the same bitrate limitations since it was justin.tv.
It's impressive how stagnant Twitch is, and how expensive it's purported to be.
Looks like this is an opt-in, supplemental crop mode, for streamers who have stuff that would work well for vertical orientations. Talking head stuff, live solo-artist music, etc.
The existing content experience is still there, but if you’re standing on the subway, and you’re watching a streamer react to a press release about a game, you can turn your phone and watch them babble in landscape while you hold the poll.
I'll just leave this video guide here to cure world of this cancer
I'll just leave this video guide here to cure world of this cancer
Fixed that for you.
Oh, yeah, that makes sense. I kinda assumed they already supported it, like YouTube Shorts adopting the vertical format for shorts after Ticktock blew up.
Mobile users are a cancer.
Are you really using Lemmy from a desktop? You sat in front of some high powered PC and THIS was the best thing you could find to do?
Sincerely, Guy on a toilet