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[Accidental_Martyr]

@Eyebrows_0f_Doom

Perhaps if you called it by how it is *actually *referred, 16:9, there would be no confusion.

Exactly.

[bouv]

The problem isn’t with the manufacturers of the phones, it’s with the people using them who can’t be arsed to turn the phone 90 degrees.

- YouTube

I mean…everyone complains about how awful the portrait orientation videos on Youtube look, but then they go right out and shoot in portrait, somehow never making the connection.

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

@jz78817

what is the “biological estimate” which led to 4:3?

@Paranoid_Randroid

I too am curious. That’s not something I’ve ever heard, and I can’t find any kind of trustworthy citation discussing which aspect ratio feels more natural.

I think he’s referring to the Golden Ratio or Divine Proportion, but 4:3 would be 1.3 (recurring) and the Golden Ratio is 1.6 and change. Ironically, 16:9 much more closely approximates the Golden Ratio.

[Paranoid_Randroid]

@Really_Not_All_That_Bright

I think he’s referring to the Golden Ratio or Divine Proportion, but 4:3 would be 1.3 (recurring) and the Golden Ratio is 1.6 and change. Ironically, 16:9 much more closely approximates the Golden Ratio.

I considered the golden ratio, but that’s why I wondered if he knew (or thought he knew) something I didn’t. Approximately:

16:9 -> 13:7.3
GR -> 13:8
4:3 -> 13:9.75

One of those things is not like the others. And even then, I’m not sure how GR counts as “biologically derived”. Perhaps I’ve been hoodwinked by corporate mischief.