On: Why Is Netflix Secretly Cropping Movies?

[joelmichael]

I saw this interesting overview of the history of aspect ratios the other day. There's a lot more variety than you'd think.

http://vimeo.com/68830569

[awongh → joelmichael]

wow, that was well made and informative. I had no idea that that's where the 16:9 aspect ratio came from (the mean ratio of the two most disparate ratios in film)