Royal Caribbean Asks FCC To "Expeditiously" Approve Starlink On Cruise Ships

[Paul Elliott]

Originally Posted by CaptTom

I'll go to my grave preferring landscape mode. Both TVs and movie screens have gotten wider over the years, so I assume I'm not the only one. But I maybe that will change as old timers die off.

We're way off the topic now, but our eyes and visual perception are designed for "landscape mode".

[Brian.D]

Cool... gone from internet at sea to portrait monitor orientation, to taking photos and videos in landscape mode. Now that is progress. LOL

[skipmac]

Originally Posted by CaptTom

Just connect the laptop to an external monitor. I've found them cheap at the second hand store. Or get an external keyboard.

Except the external monitor doesn't fit in my carryon backpack with my traveling laptop and falls off the nav table when the boat heels over.

Originally Posted by CaptTom

I'll go to my grave preferring landscape mode. Both TVs and movie screens have gotten wider over the years, so I assume I'm not the only one. But I maybe that will change as old timers die off.

I also prefer landscape mode in almost all situations (except editing large documents). Seems like the native mode of my eyes is landscape since they are oriented side by side instead of vertically.

[Chuck34]

Originally Posted by CaptTom

That's what changed. A good percentage of the people alive today have never used a camera. They have only ever held their phone one way. It would never occur to them to hold it in landscape orientation.

That's how we get that news footage of, say, a fight on an airplane, which is just a vertical slot on the screen. The news outlets try to make it tolerable by adding blurred versions of the video on either side of it, but I don't know how you can look at those and not think "I want to see what's outside the frame!"

I think we'd be doing the younger generations a favor by teaching them how to hold the phone when taking photos and videos. Maybe find a way to add that somewhere in the school curriculum. Or make a TikTok; that might reach them.

Watching the 6 o'clock news one night recently and the anchor guy actually told viewers (after watching a portrait view video) to please only take videos in landscape mode and he held up his phone to show everyone how to hold it.
Picture/video taking 101. Everyone should take lessons.

[AKA-None]

Originally Posted by skipmac

I have the opposite peeve. All computers now come only with landscape mode screens but my primary use is reading and editing documents that are all in portrait mode.

Which is why I have 4 screens and one is in portrait orientation for docs and the rest in landscape for spreadsheets

[CaptTom]

Originally Posted by skipmac

...Seems like the native mode of my eyes is landscape since they are oriented side by side instead of vertically.

I love it! Someone needs to make a meme. Photoshop a face to put the eyes vertically, and add some pithy comment like "This is how we'd all look if we were meant to view videos the way you take them."

[skipmac]

Originally Posted by AKA-None

Which is why I have 4 screens and one is in portrait orientation for docs and the rest in landscape for spreadsheets

How do you fit that all on a 27' C&C? And keep it from making dents in the cabin sole when you go sailing?

[dannc]

Originally Posted by rslifkin

Ideally it is, but for some people, depending on work requirements, etc. having connectivity makes the difference of going vs not going.

Originally Posted by S/V Illusion

Most cruisers like to communicate via text and email, read the news, send pictures, talk to other passengers, etc… life doesn’t stop just because you go on a cruise.

Exactly.

Not to mention keeping in touch with family members who need some watching over.

Later,
Dan

[BlueH2Obound]

It's pretty pathetic that Royal Caribbean's whole premise for asking the FCC to approve Starlink is to help all those poor unfortunate soles who are employed by RC to keep in contact with their families who are far away . . . . what a bunch of garbage . . .

[AKA-None]

Originally Posted by skipmac

How do you fit that all on a 27' C&C? And keep it from making dents in the cabin sole when you go sailing?

Well you can use folding arms
Until she gets tired of holding the monitors
Smirk [emoji57]

[AKA-None]

Can’t edit
But get a monitor that rotates

[redneckrob]

Extremely stupid question on the landscape vs portrait mode, but isn't the camera aperture round? One wonders why photos aren't all square (or round).

[Anders]

Originally Posted by redneckrob

Extremely stupid question on the landscape vs portrait mode, but isn't the camera aperture round? One wonders why photos aren't all square (or round).

The sensor is not round.

[CaptTom]

The (round) lens just focuses light onto the CCD Chip:


They could be made any shape. The rectangular shape has always been preferred, but technology always leans toward that shape, too. Think about old glass-plate cameras. The first TV tubes were round, but to paint the image the beam was scanned horizontally, then moved down to scan the next line, hence a horizontal (800x600) image. Movie film is just a strip of horizontal images. It turns out people prefer wider images to more square ones. So movies got wider, and later, TVs got wider.

Until today, when people younger than a certain age are pushing the norm the other way, towards tall, thin images. It'll be fun to watch where this goes.

[nestorph]

Originally Posted by CFS Klopas

Meanwhile, Dish Network is asking Musk and the FCC to yank service from people installing Starlink on moving objects because this approval hasn't been granted.

They're obviously doing so with the best intentions in mind...