Max_Rebo said:
Johnboy3434 said:
Max_Rebo said:

Vaguely relevant to this discussion, basically stupid people are complaining about youtube going widescreen, this is the level of stupidity we have to contend with.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/newsid_7749000/7749536.stm

I wouldn't consider those complaints "stupidity". They simply don't like the black bars. It's not really "stupidity" until they say the black bars are actually covering the picture. Then I want to smother them in their sleep.

Yeah I was probably being a bit harsh, most of them just seem to be asking to have the choice, which is a good thing, it just ammuses me that people complain about this when 16:9 is becoming the standard for tv/video, people just need to accept black bars in one form or another, they're not that bad I don't know how people can descride them as "distracting".

No, I'm gonna have to agree with you the first time. They're dumb. If they actually think that solid black bars are "distracting," one would think that the giant mass of white space that borders all YouTube videos, that are essentially bars in both directions, are distractions as well. And also the plastic border around your television... wouldn't that be a distraction, too? They only complain about this because they don't know any better or simply because they've heard other people complain about them. Hell, I was the same way growing up when I first saw widescreen VHS movies for sale. I asked about them, and my mom dismissed them because they had those black bars on them. I never asked any further questions. I simply believed they were bad because I was told they were bad.