On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence <[email protected]>wrote:
> Holy flying mice! They're running the Al Jazeera ad, right there on site > at the demo! See images 82 and 83, you can see the screen in the > background, and see two different negative quotes on the screen. > The fact that they have (or had) the ad playing in their "booth" may have > been mentioned, but if so it went right by me. > Q: Esa, was the ad just playing looped, continuously, or was it just played > once (or rarely) and you happened to get lucky and catch it? > A: When I walked in, it wasn't playing. The security guard was friendly enough to tell me where to turn and what to look at first - so I got to look at the banners full of text, and then he reached behind the TV and it started playing. I looked at the screen, dumbfounded. It was pixelated! It was like it was the low-resolution YouTube video - I couldn't believe it, felt a bit tacky. The video played a couple of times (I walked off after the first play) and eventually either stopped, or the guard went in and stopped it. The guard went and put it on right around when Tachoman came in to do his measurements, so I'm fairly sure that if I do manage to rescue the MOVs and make them play with audio + video, that Tachoman's softspoken words will be overflooded by the silly YouTube-quality video playing. > Oh, and I'd also like to say those are nice picture; the large size is very > clear. I never would have guessed they were from a cell phone (I guess I > have an outdated notion of what cell phone cameras are like). > Yeah, well, that's apple for you. I'm still getting to grips with all this crazy tweeting and other stuff (tweeted 5 pictures to my account with it.. they went directly from my phone to the twitter account straight up.. here's the urls (they're lower resolution/size I'm quite sure) : http://img154.yfrog.com/i/93po.jpg/ http://img159.yfrog.com/i/f1w.jpg/ http://img390.yfrog.com/i/rr2r.jpg/ http://img238.yfrog.com/i/45v.jpg/ http://img131.yfrog.com/i/9ng.jpg/ One great bonus that the Waterways has is that it has free wi-fi access from a nearby hotspot - so was able to do the twitter-tests. Someone with a good laptop or knowhow could probably set up their own stream there and just show whatever people request on-the-fly. And why not? The technology is definitely there.
