When TV programs use cell phone videos taken in portrait instead of landscape mode

[OrwellwasRight]

why don't they just put black stripes on the side? I hate the fuzzy, distorted edges they use. It is distracting and it always makes me think they are blurring something out on purpose (like when someone has a wardrobe malfunction).

Anyone else feel this way?

[Fla Dem]

1. I just don't understand why people insist on using the portrait mode instead of landscape to

take videos. I just seems so common sense and you get a far better video.

[OrwellwasRight]

3. Sure, but many of these vids (I'm guessing)

are by people who rarely makes vids, so they may each individually learn from experience how to improve their technique. In the meantime, who invented the practice of using blur when these amateur videos are broadcast on TV?? I don't think it's a good trend.

[femmocrat]

2. Yes!

I wondered about that for a long time. I would prefer white or black edges to the blur. I agree that it is distracting.

GMTA!