Hello fellow Macrumors members.
I continue to see the same old argument regarding why the iPhone X's notch is terrible. The argument goes like this:
When you play video in "fullscreen" on the iPhone X, the notch cuts into the side of the video thus losing that portion of the video due to the notch.
I put quotation marks around the word "fullscreen" in the argument because fullscreen usually refers to a video being played to fit to the screen it is being played on i.e maximise the size of the video without losing any pixels, whereas what they mean in the argument is immersive fullscreen or zooming-in-to-fill
I thought it was a terrible argument and decided to do some maths and a little photoshop to show you why.
(please ignore the fact that the top and bottom red bars are not equal in height, it doesn't change any of the numbers or arguments in this post)
As you can see, playing any video in fullscreen on a device that does not follow the native aspect ratio of said video will automatically cause the video to be cut off at the top and bottom or left and right of the video depending on the ratio difference. I understand that this notch only adds to the amount of pixels lost, but you're already losing 18.346% alone from the top and bottom of the video, what is an extra 1.648%? Also, since it's scaled up, it is bound to not look as good as its native resolution.
In the case of the iPhone X I see no reason why anyone would want to zoom-in-to-fill the screen with their videos, especially considering they would lose 20% of the video and the fact that the iPhone X can play 16:9 video natively in full resolution (1920x1080), hell, it would even play 2:1 videos natively with 0% loss in pixels natively (2160x1080).
I think Apple actually thought the iPhone X's display's aspect ratio through very well. Allowing even 2:1 video to be played fully without losing any pixels, not even to the rounded corners of the display.
What do you think? If you find any incorrect calculations in my image, please let me know.
I continue to see the same old argument regarding why the iPhone X's notch is terrible. The argument goes like this:
When you play video in "fullscreen" on the iPhone X, the notch cuts into the side of the video thus losing that portion of the video due to the notch.
I put quotation marks around the word "fullscreen" in the argument because fullscreen usually refers to a video being played to fit to the screen it is being played on i.e maximise the size of the video without losing any pixels, whereas what they mean in the argument is immersive fullscreen or zooming-in-to-fill
I thought it was a terrible argument and decided to do some maths and a little photoshop to show you why.
(please ignore the fact that the top and bottom red bars are not equal in height, it doesn't change any of the numbers or arguments in this post)
As you can see, playing any video in fullscreen on a device that does not follow the native aspect ratio of said video will automatically cause the video to be cut off at the top and bottom or left and right of the video depending on the ratio difference. I understand that this notch only adds to the amount of pixels lost, but you're already losing 18.346% alone from the top and bottom of the video, what is an extra 1.648%? Also, since it's scaled up, it is bound to not look as good as its native resolution.
In the case of the iPhone X I see no reason why anyone would want to zoom-in-to-fill the screen with their videos, especially considering they would lose 20% of the video and the fact that the iPhone X can play 16:9 video natively in full resolution (1920x1080), hell, it would even play 2:1 videos natively with 0% loss in pixels natively (2160x1080).
I think Apple actually thought the iPhone X's display's aspect ratio through very well. Allowing even 2:1 video to be played fully without losing any pixels, not even to the rounded corners of the display.
What do you think? If you find any incorrect calculations in my image, please let me know.
