Filed under: Video, Web services
Filed under: Video
In an industry where the list of HD formats and sizes has already expanded beyond the arguable boundaries of sensibility, Multichannel News has dug up some interesting details on how ABC will be flexing this format just a little more with a new HD online venture. With full episodes of some shows set to debut online in July, ABC will be bending the rules of HD by providing their shows at 1280 x 720 (the minimum dimensions to warrant the HD label) and 24 frames per second - but compressed between 850 Kbps and 2 Mbps. As Multichannel News points out, the HD you get at home via cable and satellite providers is typically compressed at 12-19 Mbps in MPEG-2, with the new and more efficient MPEG-4 standard (which uses the H.264 codec) requiring at least 5 Mbps.
Unless there is some serious other video voodoo going on here, compressing shows to files sizes that are less than half the required specs could backfire on ABC's first foray into online HD content. There's a fine line between doing things efficiently and doing things right, and when it comes to providing video content to consumers who are specifically looking for high quality content, quality is one of the few things you can't sacrifice. Subaru might as well introduce a lineup of "rally-tuned" sports cars but check the all-wheel drive at the factory in the name of shaving budget costs; it just isn't right.
Filed under: Video, News, Windows, Microsoft
by David Chartier Aug 25th 2006
Yesterday, Jordan blogged an announcement from Microsoft's Steve Riley that Vista users will need to have 64-bit superpowers if they want the ability to play HD video. It turns out this isn't entirely true, as Engadget is reporting that Microsoft has clarified the complication: 32-bit versions of Vista can play HD - but not without help from third party folk like CyberLink and InterVideo. The blame game still places the ball in the big media studios' court, as it is they who dictated that HD support be stripped out of Media Player 11 across the board, not simply one version of Vista or another.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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