I really like the aspect ratio of the nexus 9. however, since i mainly use a tablet for multimedia consumption, i am really worried about how much of the screen is the actual content, and how much is letter boxing. i would really appreciate it if someone would share picture(s) of his nexus 9 while viewing youtube videos,or random scenes of movies using perhaps VLC (or any other advanced player of your choice) at both full screen filling and native aspect ratio.{ And maybe comparison to any other 16:9 / 16:10 display laid side by side containing the same frame. (Just please mention whether the other screen is 16:9 or 16:10).}
Since i am asking a lot within the {}, feel free to ignore it if you want to.
Anything would do.
PS: how many hours of ONLY 720p playback can one get out of a full charge?
PPS: How does the area of the video it compare to other screens 16:9 in the same screen range (7 inch to 9 inch) ?
Thanks
(Edit): Would really help if you would describe how the aspect ratio and letter boxing actually affect the experience. ( Doesn't impose a problem / Easy to ignore / Could be an inconvenience / Usually annoying / Deal breaker )
The bezel + black bars above and below the picture are about equal to the bezels on the left and right of the screen. So basically there is an even black frame around the picture. I'm completely fine with it. Overall, the picture is bigger than on the nexus 7.
Watching 720p video
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Watching 1080p video
This is Gravity on Play Movies on my N9 and N7 2013, not the best picture but you can see the N9 is definitely bigger.
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so for me the biggest disappointment next to hearing short battery life on this phone is lack of the option for 1080 recording.
Is it possible for what we know are amazing rom dev's to add 1080 recording or is it a hardware limitation (couldn't possibly understand why it would be)
I originally was in your same boat.
It's possible to add it, but probation glitchy. That's probably why they removed it. The 720p should be true hd by now though.
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I actually PREFER 720p for file size and overall performance of the video. Most people can't tell the difference when viewing. This is a small gripe, IMO. But the fact that they lied about it being a typo is pretty large.
What these phone manufacturers NEED to focus on is 720p at 60fps, which should be an option for buttery smooth video.
the Desire launched with 800x480 video and they eventually upgraded it to 720p
they may do the same with the Evo 3D from 720p to 1080p
Cubfan99 said:
I actually PREFER 720p for file size and overall performance of the video. Most people can't tell the difference when viewing. This is a small gripe, IMO. But the fact that they lied about it being a typo is pretty large.
What these phone manufacturers NEED to focus on is 720p at 60fps, which should be an option for buttery smooth video.
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I can see your POV and benefits, but having the options always nice
afterall if you can record in 1080 no one says you cant still record in 720 to keep things down in size if thats what you want.
but small gripe? I disagree, it was stated to supposed to have it, most if not all of the superphones coming can do it (TMK), and when you have a monitor with a resolution thats over 1080 you def CAN tell the difference between 720 and 1080
A couple of days ago I bought a cheap tablet. It actually works quite well for the price I paid for it.
There is only one annoying issue. The screen seems stretched on the x axis (in landscape mode), resulting in circles that look like ovals. So I decided to take a look at some system info apps, and this showed some strange numbers (see the screenshot below).
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I already tried editing the dpi in the build.prop file, but this didn't fix the problem. The overall dpi changed, but I was still stuck with the incorrect aspect ratio. So does anyone of you have an idea to fix this? Maybe a way to change the dpi of the x and y axis independent?
I'm having the same issue as you.
Problem is, the standard resolution for Android seems to be 800x480, which has an aspect ratio of 5:3, or 15:9, but many tablets have 16:9 screens.
This makes everything appear stretched about a 6.7% in the direction of the tablet's longer orientation (ie: horizontally in landscape mode, or vertically in portrait).
The solution would be to set the tablet to a 16:9 resolution, or make the DPI 6.7% higher in that direction.
Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to do neither.
How change X-dpi and Y-dpi settings?
On my Android TV dongle are X-dpi 25,4 and Y-dpi 25,4. I want to change X-dpi and Y-dpi to 160, becouse on some apps text are very small, and it's undearable.
not sure if this is discussed elsewhere or is the same thing as the black crush issue ....this is a bit different ....i see lines where the screen background gradiants from black to grey, some apps are worse than others.
it does not show with solid colors, only with gradiants like on ICS style menus.
had to take a picture because it doesn't show on a screenshot, this is one of the worst, the others are not as bad with only a few lines
anyone know what this is?
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Exactly the same here. I don't know if go and take a new one, because I'm tired of these AMOLED Screens. On my SGS2 had the same problem, the ugly gradients, some green/yellow tint, and ink marks with not true deep blacks. And now, with PenTile.
Put this image on your S3, It's a screenshot of MegaJump. On my PC it looks well but on the phone... ahh.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/64034249/Screenshot_2012-07-05-21-34-12.png
Sorry friend, it's just Samsung. That's what we get from a "premium" phone.
(I'm spanish, sorry if there are some grammatical errors)
yes, i can see all the gradiants quite visibly on the S3, it is much better on my S1, my S1 also doesn't have those grey banding lines which are worse than the halo effect ....i hope the lines are just software or background issue
i still prefer amoled to LCD though, just those banding lines suck
Hi, ho have the same problem on my sgs2. It's not a screen problem, but a 16bit rendering. This rendering mode improves 3D graphics performances, but reduces display quality introducing: banding, dithering, color missmatch.
aha!
it seems that is the answer ....so how do we enable 24 bit rendering?
can't find any info on it ...or is it something that should not be changed?
i presume there would have been an option on the phone if it was ok to do without too much performance degradation
Is there any way to disable the optical image stabilization on an Android device? Preferably S9 as that's what I'm using, not sure if this is a thing that can be done on rooted Android devices?
I'm using it with a full frame fisheye lens as an action cam (like GoPro) with a chest harness and so far it works great, I think the quality is a lot better than GoPro (especially at night) and the lens is wider too, but there's one kind of big problem because it is using OIS and it was not designed for bigger shakes it actually ruins the image for a split second, it seems the OIS shifts the lens out of focus whenever the phone is shaked a bit hard - you can test this with your phone by shaking it forward-up-down and then playing the video back frame by frame, it is very noticeable anyway.
So what I was hoping is that by disabling the OIS (it seems to be controlled electronically and tries to compensate for the shake) it could hopefully maybe fix this, although I'm not very optimistic by this, there are moving parts in the hardware but what I noticed is that if I shake the phone without the camera app open, the camera makes more noise/moves more versus when the camera app is open, so maybe just maybe there is a way to mod the electronic part to hold it into place all the time?
Here is a gif of an example of what happens when you shake the phone, please note that this is not motion blur, but it is actually out of focus when that happens, it is exactly the same result whether I use it in very bright lightning conditions or low.
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I was really happy with the results with this phone and the fact that you can edit and share content right away, would be great to solve this problem! By the way I'm using it with a Blackeye Pro Fisheye G4 lens if anyone is curious.
Anyone noticed that videos are not wide as photos?
In photos I put 4:3 aspect ratio to get the most of the wideness of the wide camera
But in videos I can only put 16:9 or wider which drastically crop out the video frame vertically as well as horizontally.
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Any solution for that to get a better field of view?
I really need this for my up coming ski vacation.
Thanks
I think this is because of EIS. The camera crops to avoid shaky blurry image.
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Anyone noticed that videos are not wide as photos?
In photos I put 4:3 aspect ratio to get the most of the wideness of the wide camera
But in videos I can only put 16:9 or wider which drastically crop out the video frame vertically as well as horizontally.
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Any solution for that to get a better field of view?
I really need this for my up coming ski vacation.
Thanks
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Yes I have a solution. first you download the open camera from play Store .than go to the camera settings tap video settings select the 4:3 aspect ratio and after recording the video stretch the video into 16:9 ratio using any editing software .when you don't have a pc . Download powerdIrector from play Store and apply zoom in fx and stretch the video manually.