Occasionally I notice that live interviews of people on TV are reversed L<>R. It's very obvious when there is text of some sort in the background - books on a shelf, or street or shop signs. Why do the TV companies do this? - why don't they simply transmit the images with the correct orientation? Is it some rather crude attempt at disguising the person's reading interests or location?
I'd say it almost certainly incompetance/mistake, why read any more into it?
"Never put down to malice that which can be explained by incompetance"
It's video probably sourced from Zoom.
The "local" picture of the interviewer is flipped, while the interviewer is normal.
Switch ya mobile phone to show the live view of ya face, then hold a newpaper to it.
...sdrawkcab s'ti
Well all cameras switched to "selfie" mode are reversed left-to-right to make it easier to frame. *Usually* this is corrected when the picture/video is stored as a file, but not always. Maybe it's configurable, meaning that it may be *incorrectly* configured.
For Zoom meetings, it's pretty common to set your camera for mirror image. I'd guess those being interviewed can't be bother (or don't know how) to put it back to normal.
!sknaht; KO
TikTok is a great offender with this. Yes I know I'm too old but it sucks one in
It's certainly switchable in Zoom. Default is " mirror image"
Didn't this used to be a way of bypassing copyright, by using a ripped-off photo in reverese ?
Wee would they bother? After all you could just view it in a mirror if you were interested. I know old film used to accidentally be made this way and folk forgot which way around to show it, but video? Brian
Does that mean then that such a simple thing is not a standard world wide? I had a b/w monitor wired up backwards like this as it had a rostrum camera which to keep it low profile in the days of camera tubes looked into a mirror. Brian
People are most used to seeing themselves in a mirror. On say a Zoom meeting you usually see your own pic as well as the others taking part. Making that mirror image is simply more natural. In an ideal world, it would best only make it mirror image your end.
On Zoom you can configure your camera for mirror image. This lets you see yourself (and your books) like you do in the mirror.
I think Microsoft Meet automatically shows you as a tiny mirror image to you, but normal way round to the others. I don't like this program because it doesn't show me the same size as the others, so that I can monitor my expression.
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