No pictures

Because it can be useful to show what has broken, what you have that you are asking about, etc etc etc.

Don't start me on phone videos submitted to TV, having been taken in portrait orientation. :-(

This came from Usenet and transmitted using NNTP as plain ASCII text (ASCII art now a dead art ?)

It has its uses and limitations - with ease to add a link to Flikr or similar it can still be used.

I created a self build group and to allow pictures we went to eGroups, then that was taken over by Yahoo Groups - who have now discontinued the service.

There are plenty of forums run on various board software - some good, some hard work, the issue is they have to be hosted somewhere and that means a Admin who wants to loade & configure software - and recover crashes (that happen)

Many have now migrated to FB groups, that does gives multi-media, easy admin control of members - but a whole world of Spam.

I joined uk-d-i7 around 1983 using trn to access, did a number of articles at the time for Matthew Marks which went into the DIY Faq. Is Matthew still about ?

At that point it had a very low ratio of Spam .... but sadly now suffers heavily from Spam by being cross posts from other groups.

I think this group still has a purpose, but those who want the full multi-media experience can get what they want from many of the forums that exist..

Annoying, aren't they. I'm slightly surprised that iPhones with all their clever tech don't fix that automatically.

How would the phone taking the video know that it was to be viewed on a TV rather than on another phone similarly held portrait?

Sentimental value.

Bill

As usual your logic is hard to follow. Just because I think this medium is outdated, why do you think that I haven't heard of Facebook? If I said that black and white TV was outdated would that make you think I'd never heard of colour?

Bill

On a DIY group?

It would be really useful to just pop in a little image of the item you're talking about.

Bill

Technically you can do it, just that most servers won't allow it.

I can't think of many cases where a video isn't better viewed in landscape mode, whatever the medium it is to be viewed on.

When you complain something is outdated, it suggests you don't know of a viable alternative. Unless, of course, just stating the bleeding obvious.

Which suggests you have no experience of such groups. That 'little' picture would be taken at the highest resolution on the latest phone and use an enormous amount of bandwidth. Which someone, somewhere, has to pay for.

You can always post a link to the pic for those who want to see it.

Most web based forums don't allow you to post pics direct. Because of cost. You can, however, use a hosting site and a link to that so the picture appears on the site.

To be able to post direct, you'd either have to pay for the forum, or have it accept lots of advertising.

You can't fix the wrong aspect ratio afterwards. Look at the mess TV makes of it on their own programmes.