Thinking about this further, if many Apple TV's get sold then this is an opportunity for the likes of blip or veoh or network2 to try to reach out to the potential viewers and shout 'hey, look at us, we can provide loads of great 720p content for your apple tv for free'. Then they talk to the show creators that they are so keen to say they have strong ties with, and get some of them to do a nice high-def version of the shows. Veoh could be a good fit because their top man is always searching for good uses for their peer2peer stuff.
Plus it would send a signal to cynics like me that the relationship between show crators and these networks is a deep and wide thing, and has as much emphasis on getting viewers as finding sponsors/advertisers (though the 2 obviously should be strongly linked anyway). The UK in particular now has lots of people with high-def tv's who dont have any or enough sources of high-def content. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In [email protected], "Bill Cammack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's kind of what I was thinking... that only the shows that are > already shooting in HD will bother with the spec at all. > > --- In [email protected], "Steve Watkins" <steve@> wrote: > > > > Im guessing those sorts of resolutions and bitrates will cause files > > to be too large for most to consider, so I doubt the masses will > > change to a higher res/bitrate, but hopefulyl a few vlogs that > > specialise in HD will offer such versions. > > > > The stuff about 1280x only working at 24fps is a little crazy, sort of > > a bad point for their box to run out of decoding power, especially as > > apples quicktime conversion option defaults to lowering the res to > > 960x540 rather than messing with the framerate, if your source > > material is 30fps. > > > > Cheers > > > > Steve Elbows > > > > --- In [email protected], "Bill Cammack" <BillCammack@> > > wrote: > > > > > > Nice writeup, Ryan. > > > > > > Is anyone planning to change the specs on their videoblog because of > > > Apple TV? According to The Apple Store <http://tinyurl.com/372a86>, > > > it accepts H.264 up to 5Mbps at 1280x720 @ 24fps. > > > > > > -- > > > Bill C. > > > http://TheLab.ReelSolid.TV > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Ryan Ozawa" <ryanozawa@> wrote: > > > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > > > I got my Apple TV on Friday. I'm liking it a lot. I've had a HDTV > > > set for a > > > > few months but don't have HD service, so the Apple TV is the best > > > looking > > > > video source in the house. It's only a matter of time before Apple > > > sells > > > > HD content direct, but I've downloaded HD video podcasts and > they look > > > > great. The only compression artifacts, I think, come from what the > > > creator > > > > has to do to not have impossibly huge files and bandwidth bills. > > > > > > > > My first impressions blogged here: > > > > > > > > http://www.lightfantastic.org/imr/extras/weblog/archives/004649.html > > > > > > > > Ryan > > > > > > > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.2 (Build 4075) > > > > Comment: http://lightfantastic.org/pgp.txt > > > > > > > > wj8DBQFGB18Cz+jy50P8pxcRAnXkAJ0QnXAD51pmVrBFifRdBtwSgJRQgACaA1jM > > > > xDMz13cgv6SNvR5kPWXazx0= > > > > =nxc7 > > > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > >
