Comments on: iPad 4:3 Screen – Bad for Movies, Good for Books and Web?

By: powerpoint to video

powerpoint to video — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:29:01 +0000

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By: ipadvideo

ipadvideo — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 08:26:38 +0000

Well, maybe the 4:3 ratio is the screen that attract people to buy. Anyway, to me, the ipad screen is just fit for me.

By: Nick shuman

Nick shuman — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:43:35 +0000

I can’t wait till it comes out

By: m65

m65 — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:28:40 +0000

many thanks for this share. nice article

By: Me

Me — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:56:32 +0000

That big ass bezel is more of an issue for me. Also no front cam sucks as well. Not to mention being tied to crappy memory resorce hog itunes as well.

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By: frog

frog — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:10:43 +0000

Apple has gotten this right. Movies will look fine.

By: Arti

Arti — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:37:43 +0000

The iPad naturally begs for the killer app of iChat, except that it’s totally missing a front facing camera! A glaring omission and fatal flaw. To save $20 and “save” that feature so they can have something to introduce with the next iPad 2, they gimped this iPad. Instead of focusing on making this iPad as good as it can be, they got arrogant and too cocky, and think they can “save” a common feature to use as mileage on a future product.

No way I’ll get an iPad without the forward camera. Video chat is a feature EVERY CHEAP NETBOOK has, and I use it a lot on the road, it’s one of the two or three major things you get a Netbook for. It doesn’t even put any strain on the ATT network since they can easily make it WiFi only.

I wanted to buy one of these for my retired parents, and a lot of friends I know were thinking that too. Perfect gift for parents, it’s like a laptop that’s always on and ready to display pictures, internet, email and best of all, iChat with your relatives. But without the killer video app? There is just no good excuse for not having this, it’s incomprehensible. I will have to wait for iPad 2, this is just too glaring an omission and frankly insulting.

By: Devin

Devin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:11:08 +0000

One thing that crossed my mind when I saw the 4:3 formatting is that perhaps this choice was to facilitate the onscreen keyboard. When my iPhone is typing in landscape mode, I only get a tiny sliver of a viewing window to see what it is I am typing. Having it 4:3 allows for a better typing experience. For me, I think I’d be typing more than watching movies, so this doesn’t bother too much, but does seem backwards initially with the widescreen trend.

By: Lady Kaede

Lady Kaede — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:56:20 +0000

For movie viewing, it’s an issue, but a minor one. For everything else, this fo factor seems right.

By: SheiknetChris

SheiknetChris — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:41:52 +0000

Imagine the iPad in an educational setting: A digital textbook is open, a system-wide note taking frame is open and there is also a mic adapter and on-screen control getting an audio recording of the teacher. That is potentially three panes or frames.

I think that making the tablet wider and shorter narrows the usable height. Turning it to vertical orientation would restrict side-by-side viewing of text and notes. Movies are great and all, but not EVERYTHING is best served in Panavision!

By: fastlane

fastlane — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:37:50 +0000

First, unlike a TV where you sit across the room and the screen fills a relatively small part of your field of vision, like the iPhone, the iPad will be held much closer.

I’ve been trying to explain this to people ever since I got my iPhone. Viewing movies on small screens up close is no different than viewing movies on televisions (or even small theaters) from a distance — they’re the same size.

“Whaaa…. I can’t watch movies on such a small screen. How do I do it?”

“Umm… I don’t know… with your eyes open, perhaps? You’ve lost me…”

This isn’t an issue with iPad, either.

By: Omari James

Omari James — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:28:04 +0000

Thats interesting. I caught that my self as well during the presentation. Well Apple has about 60 days to make modifications like you guys said.