iPhone X Change notch in settings for full screen video?

[Macalway]

Notch will be gone for photos, movies, and all things not notch-friendly .

Notch free will be a big sell. Apps will need to be notch-approved.

(I'm thinking I'm already REALLY tired of this word.)

 

[dontworry]

I'm with you. Can't find any hands on actually testing out video playback. Ugh! Just this one in game mode

after watching that video, I'm starting to "embrace the notch"

 

[Macalway]

after watching that video, I'm starting to "embrace the notch"

I know, the hands-on are promising.

(I'm such a sucker )

 

[Damstr]

I'm with you. Can't find any hands on actually testing out video playback. Ugh! Just this one in game mode

I knew I was already getting it but yeah this just sealed the deal for me.

 

[dontworry]

Looks like native resolution will keep it out of the notch!


I've took a screenshot from iPhone X playing a youtube video:


Then I double tapped it to expand:

Thanks, seems like you won't notice the notch too much in normal usage.

 

[blackberrycubed]

that notch is PISSING me off ...

 

[jamesrick80]

That notch does force the video to be much smaller. That's a negative ....

 

[sniffies]

Thank goodness I rarely watch movies on iPhone, so ghetto

 

[Loge]

As I stated above (and illustrated in that Wonder Woman image), HD/4K content is natively 16x9 (1.78 aspect ratio). The iPhone X display is far from that aspect ratio. To be clear, the screenshots mds1256 provided above show native aspect ratio vs. scaled (double tap) aspect ratio (neither of which are native resolution, but that doesn't really matter too much).
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2.1653~

Lots of movies have a wider aspect ratio than that. What will they look like?

 

[rsxmachine]

Lots of movies have a wider aspect ratio than that. What will they look like?

This video shows a movie playi without notch. Looks fine

 

[Pug72]

Here to at 2:19, they play Wonder Woman and demo changing video size.

 

[Ralfi]

So my biggest hang up for the iPhoneX right now is that dumb notch on the top. I get why it's there, but when they showed the horizontal full screen video in the demo and that was sticking into it, I think I experienced OCD for the first time.

Do you guys anticipate, or have you heard about, the ability to change your screen settings so that video ends before the bump? Or do you think this'll be an Apple knows best situation where they don't allow you to change that without jailbreaking.

Yeah this stood out to me too. I presumed video would end below the notch so nothing gets blocked out.

 

[steelo3232]

Here to at 2:19, they play Wonder Woman and demo changing video size.

THANK YOU..... I still think that notch is ugly as heck but this is better than the mock ups they showed today. I can "live" with his.

 

[Jimmy James]

First thing I noticed and thought it would be very distracting while watching movies. Even on the apple website on the Wonder Woman video it has the notch and the video extends to that area so technically you will be missing part (albeit small) part of the video. I hope it is optional.

It's like having the time embedded on your tv screen while watching a movie.

Notchgate.

 

[OriginalClone]

Thank goodness I rarely watch movies on iPhone, so ghetto

what?

 

[Technarchy]

That notch does force the video to be much smaller. That's a negative ....

The notch eats content. I imagine some people will be better able to filter it out, but it’s not as elegant as Samsung’s infinity display where the entire massive display is usable for content.

 

[satchmo]

If the ears are always restricted for time and carrier info/battery, why not make that area always black to match the notch? It's not as if it's usable space anyways.

 

[DNichter]

Double tap gets rid of it. I like the notch though, doesn’t bother me at all.

 

[dojoman]

I think eventually people will get used to the notch, it looks like full screen video doesn’t show notch or in the full screen photos.

 

[pdxmatts]

This video shows a movie playi without notch. Looks fine

Thank you!!!
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Here to at 2:19, they play Wonder Woman and demo changing video size.

Thank you

 

[Techman82]

I thought videos would stop at the notch, and if playing 1080p the big bezels are back and looks like a regular iphone, that handle thing at bottom as well is annoying me, and I haven't seen browsing in landscape as well as landscape features like the 7plus

 

[Ralfi]

Here to at 2:19, they play Wonder Woman and demo changing video size.

Ok so with full screen, the left/right parts of the film are cut off since it's not actual aspect ratio. To watch in proper aspect ratio, you lose the full screen use & have to contend with borders all around.

Interesting to see how videos viewed in proper aspect ratio utilise the screen on the X compared to my 6S.

 

[GreyOS]

Okay, not so bad, but still... in your screenshot, there looks to be clearly some space to the left of the video where the video could fill the space while maintaining a rectangular shape. For the iPhone X to not take advantage of that seems kinda silly to me...

In that example you would either stretch the image or chop bits from the top or bottom if you had it wider.
How is this not obvious.
Videos have a native resolution.

 

[Paddle1]

Corners being cut off in apps or games would annoy me too. I'm guessing you can't zoom out there.

 

[mario-64]

Do we know yet how the notch will be handled in Safari when using the phone in Landscape? Will it block content and/or the page scroll bar?