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Google Finally Caving In To Vertical Video

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You know we are not big fans of vertical videos, and up until lately, google were not a big fan of this either, noting camera users to flip the phone when shooting vertical video.

They also ‘made’ the youtube app play vertical video on roughly half the screen. I am not sure if this was a bug or a feature, but it is about to change.

Android Police reports that google are finally caving in and the new version of mobile youtube (Android | iOS) will enable playing a vertical youtube on a full screen when the phone is held vertically.

before:

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now:

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If you wanna test it here is a link filled with vertical videos that you can open on the youtube app.

This ‘feature’ is not available to iOS just yet, but it will probably be there soon enough.

[via androidpolice]

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  • Yep, rather than train people to do it ‘right’ we adapt the tech to tolerate them.

  • YouTube should delete vertical videos, not this.

  • Idiocy.

  • stewart norton

    Phone cameras should be made to be unable to shoot vertical video… Its evil.

  • Phones should be unable to take vertical video…..like non alcoholic beer, mild cheese and soft porn it is totally pointless and evil.

  • The work of the devil and a threat to civilised society.

  • Well… they could rotate de sensor 90º or make a micro gimbal inside the phone. lool :p

  • … or make ALL visual media recording devices record in the square aspect ratio and DO AWAY the question entirely! PS: Tip the waitress, try the veal …

  • Mansgame

    The only time vertical video makes sense is if the content is also going to be viewed on a vertical video. Even then, think twice.

  • KoGa

    Wrong. Vertical videos should be rotated and played horizontally. People would learn how to take proper videos quickly.

    • Google tried that. It didn’t work.

  • I do have to say that I have a problem with this hate against vertical video. To my eyes it seems like video should be shot in landscape mode because “it has always been like this”. If portrait mode in still cameras would bbe invented now should it be hated also? Now we finally have the tech to shoot video in any view, portrait or landscape, monitors can be turned and mobile devices (especially phones) are “natively” (in a sense) used in portrait mode. Instead of bashing and dislike something because it’s new maybe there could be an option to try to get the most out from our devices?
    Like for still photos, some things look better in portrait rather than landscape mode, maybe it could be the same for video?
    Oh, I forgot, it can’t be done because it’s not supposed to be done 😀

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