I don’t agree, people have a practical sense of what they are doing. Vertical videos are not shoot because people don’t know any better or ignore that they don’t want to do that. Tilting the device is not really a hard thing to do for anyone. They do it because the format fits what they are shooting.

And again, if YouTube was doing its job right, there won’t be a problem…

Yes, in the sense that this often results in “stretch-o-vision” by people who are either afraid or pillarboxing (“why isn’t it filling the whole screen!?? make the black bars go away!!”) or who don’t want to pay the few extra bucks for an HD cable box. And it’s really a drag to go to sports bar with your friends only to find out they’ve turned your basketball game into a “basket ellipsoid” game.

I certainly respect the intentional use of vertical video for artistic expression, though. It’s unfortunate that this is becoming the new automatic indicator of amateur video, like the camcorder timestamp used to be.

I went twice to Japan (but quite some time ago), and loved it.

Here are my 2 cents :
- Nikko (near Tokyo) is really nice (quite “baroque” compared to Kyoto … but nice to compare, and could be done in a day from/to Tokyo)
- Kyoto/Nara is a must
- Osaka is really nice, but “kind of” provincial town compared to Tokyo
- Kobe : I was there (conference), but not really worth it in my opinion
- Himeji : (really) nice castle … and that’s all (good if you have enough time and are around … going from Kyoto to Hiroshima for example)
- Hiroshima : worth if for the historical point … and only for it (so … depends on the time you have I would say as it is quite far away from the Tokyo-Kyoto axe). If you are there (and only if), consider going to Miayjima (Tori in the water)
- Okinawa : never been there, but the tropical/beach feeling of it could be worth it (depending on when you are there)

Enjoy …

so, we should never watch a SD video on our HDTV. or never watch a movie on our SD TV. or never watch … on our not… computer screen. very silly opinion, i would say. now, in my iBook and android apps, the screen is locked into portrait orientation. the video is 720Hx1280V (HD aspect ratio 9×16), so it does pillorbox slightly on the 3×4 (SD aspect ratio) iPad, and even the android devices are not always quite 9×16 (they often have a little extra space on the 9 side). so, getting a video to exactly match all screens is really impossible, vertical or horizontal.

Do you always watch Youtube or Facebook videos in fullscreen? Because I don’t, and I bet most people don’t.

Not a single vertical layout mentioned.

Vertical video is bad for the sake that it will be projected on primarily horizontal devices. On the phone itself, it is fine and other handheld devices but these devices do not necessarily favor one orientation over the other. Videos should have the aspect ratio of the intended display device.

It’s like shoving a rectangular peg into a circle hole. Yeah, it might be possible to solve the puzzle that way, but really, you should be using the round peg in the round hole.

As I had the same problem as you, I went on your post and I spoke with my host.
Here are the results of our research:

“We are currently facing several waves bruteforcing interface
Administration Joomla and WordPress. Following this, we implemented a
system to eliminate this kind of attacks. The rules established
were obviously too strict and prevented access to certain pages.
They have just been adapted this morning…”

Since then, the 403 error is gone and the change password is operational again.

It is therefore necessary to contact your host to ask him to look at it closely.

WordPress have not involved.

Hoping this will help you.

Sincerely,
Jeff