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Maybe square or hexagonal as a compromise. Horizontal or vertical wouldn't matter.
It's just a quirk of our evolution that we seem to prefer horizontal rectangular screens, since our eyes are placed horizontally on our faces and most of the things we are looking out for, good or bad, come at us from the right or left.
I wonder what sort of video this spider might prefer:
She has two big eyes facing forward for hunting, two smaller eyes beside those for better triangulation as she sets up her leaps, and four eyes facing upward to watch out for trouble.
The visual field of a jumping spider:
If anyone asked me, I think YouTube and other video sites ought to frame videos in whatever aspect ratio they are filmed in, but I guess that would make it difficult for advertisers.
I remember the first color television set my dad brought home had a screen that was almost round; a circle with the top and bottom sliced off.
It was an RCA CTC model.
I often enjoy square format photography. It reminds me of the first cameras my parents gave me when I was a kid.
The first Kodak cameras took round photos and were printed on square paper.
My mom and dad had a Sylvania - I think the screen was about 25 inches. I think it looked like this;
Dad had me up on the roof, hollering up to me out the window of the 'tv' room, "A little more clockwise. YES! Right there."
"Gotta make the lines in that picture 'not fuzzy', see?"
