Linus “Sebastian” Tech Tips was often in the habit of bitching about camera notches/holes in phone screens being in the way of content…while simultaneously mastering his own videos at an ultrawide aspect ratio, so that they’re letterboxed on standard televisions and most computer monitors, and they extend to the edge of a phone screen where all the rounded corners and camera holes are. It’s like he’s bad at decisions or something.

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I totally disagree with your stance on wider screen movies and TV shows though. Generally speaking, if it’s an aesthetic choice.

I’ve started to suspect that the minor deviation from 16:9 is a bandwidth saver that streaming services have imposed, though. Because the total pixels go down. And as far as I’m aware, there are no anamorphic video files served on YouTube, Netflix or other services. That seems to have stopped being practiced after we moved on from DVDs.