• Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Ultrawide is extremely niche compare to vertical resolutions/aspect ratio. It’s not even close.

    • Glitchvid@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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.

  • Jesus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • Zombie-Mantis@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.