Today, I took four short videos with my ZTE Z982 smartphone on the TexRail today. I shot all videos holding the phone horizontally....
Something very curious happened when I went to cast the videos onto my flatscreen TV. Two of the videos displayed horizontally on the flatscreen, as I would have expected. But the other two videos displayed only vertically on the TV with black bars on each side, and I mean the image was a vertical view. No adjustment I made changed that strange display on the TV. The two videos that wouldn't display horizontally on the flatscreen TV, were able to be viewed horizontally on my smartphone, filling the screen of the phone, but, the phone info and play button display, was on either side of the horizontal view on the phone.
On the two "good" videos, when viewing horizontally on the phone, the phone info and play display runs across the top and the bottom of the horizontal view.
Something very curious happened when I went to cast the videos onto my flatscreen TV. Two of the videos displayed horizontally on the flatscreen, as I would have expected. But the other two videos displayed only vertically on the TV with black bars on each side, and I mean the image was a vertical view. No adjustment I made changed that strange display on the TV. The two videos that wouldn't display horizontally on the flatscreen TV, were able to be viewed horizontally on my smartphone, filling the screen of the phone, but, the phone info and play button display, was on either side of the horizontal view on the phone.
On the two "good" videos, when viewing horizontally on the phone, the phone info and play display runs across the top and the bottom of the horizontal view.
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