13 years later it's still a problem. Movies started off squarish, the got horizontal. TV started off roundish then squarish then got horizontal. In between times movies on TV had their ends chopped off or they did zoom pan and scan, which sucked. Then they did wide screen editions which left black bars on top and bottom. The picture was a bit smaller, but at least you could see the whole frame of every movie. But, then when screens got wider old TV shows, that were squarish, were stretched out of proportion across the screen. To "correct" that many old TV shows are zoomed in and cut off the top and bottom of the frames. The incompetence is just astounding. They invent this technology but they don't know how to properly adapt it. Backwards compatibility is just not a thing. Of course there are some people who want their shows stretched out of proportion or the frames cropped just so long as it fills the screen ("NO BLACK BARS!") and they don't see anything wrong with that. I hope if any vertical videos used in court that it's pointed out that the person was an IDIOT for videoing in the vertical instead of horizontal therefore all the detail is lost.


