Apple’s successful iPhone 3GS launch might mean a new video format takes over the YouTubes of the world in the near future. They’re calling it “tallscreen,” and I wanted to know if you gave a hoot or not.
As you can see, the medium is catching on, at least in the Twitterverse:
“The new iPhone is doing for tall-screen video what DVDs and HD did for widescreen. Sweet.” – Dan Frommer, Editor, Silicon Valley Insider
Thanks to the iPhone 3GS and YouTube, our kids will laugh at our old-fashioned “widescreen” movies. “Tallscreen is way better!” – Cabel Sasser, co-founder, Panic
For the record, I prefer widescreen, if for nothing else than to adequately capture the growing waistlines of my local area American countrymen.
Bennish
Monday, July 27, 2009 at 8:33 AMThis is the most stupid idea I’ve ever heard.
Nathan
Monday, July 27, 2009 at 8:45 AMTallscreen sux – widescreen FTW. I always use my iPhone on landscape/widescreen mode for videos. Even the latest iPod Nano has an accelerometer for widescreen.
Seems like a dumb idea and a waste of time to me. My 2c :-)
Ben
Monday, July 27, 2009 at 9:59 AMgood for email and all that non-fun stuff.
Freddie
Monday, July 27, 2009 at 10:06 AMI hope this is the first & last I hear of ‘tallscreen’
simon
Monday, July 27, 2009 at 10:56 AM“Tallscreen is way better!” – Cabel Sasser
Does this guy have eyes one above the other? Because this is the only reason I think someone could prefer ‘tallscreen’ over widescreen.
Matt
Monday, July 27, 2009 at 12:56 PMTallscreen? What? Is that the new geek buzzword? Sorry, but that just sounds ridiculous.
Dave
Monday, July 27, 2009 at 1:44 PMIt’s the future !!
I have a widescreen laptop with a 22″ widescreen external monitor to the side.
The monitor is flipped on its end to be “tallscreen”
Can read full A4 PDF’s & webpages on the Tallscreen and use the laptop screen for email & stuff.
Try it before you rubbish it ;-)
lamdalamda
Monday, July 27, 2009 at 1:49 PMIve always thought the old -square- format was a nice compromise for office apps like dtp etc.
jdas
Monday, July 27, 2009 at 3:14 PMThere’s a reason widescreen was the choice going forward, that’s because us humans have two eyes side by side, so we have greater horizontal peripheral vision than vertical. So unless you are a two-eyed cyclops with eyes aligned vertically, you are better off watching widescreen.
Having said that, Dave is better off with a tallscreen if he is reading documents as our eyes strain to follow long lines of horizontal text at a time, so I guess it’s up to whether you are reading or watching videos (are you going to be reading that much text on a tiny 3Gs screen) ?
Another idiotic idea by Apple.
Dan and Cabel probably got sweetened with a free 3Gs by the sound of their comments.
Dave Jones
Monday, July 27, 2009 at 4:53 PMDepends entirely on what you’re doing. Saying its any better for watching movies is kind of stupid – you’d have to frame people 2cm away from each other to fit them both in or have tiny little people far away.
But if you’re coding, referencing or doing anything text based where your eyes may have to flick up and down a page, its better than hitting page up and down constantly.
Its also a far better for designing portrait documents.
My solution – start putting accelerometers in monitors so you can rotate your screen when doing so isnt retarded.