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Youtube Standards And Practices

by Derek on August 10th, 2011
Youtube Standards And Practices

The most viewed version of this scene over the course of two years has accrued over 170,000 hits. Yet, it’s a video of someone recording the scene off of their TV using their camcorder… It’s a CRT TV too mind you so you can see their floor lamp casting some nice glare, not to mention camera handling noise.

The “best” version of it on YouTube is as described above. I know that YouTube has lowered people’s standards for video quality, but does it really have to go THIS low???

This is one reason I started my YouTube channel Kung Fu Bench which is nothing but fight scenes from kung fu movies. All in the original English where possible, properly synced (sometimes better sync than the DVDs). My own little part of the internet where there’s a standard for video quality. That reminds me, I haven’t uploaded anything new to it in a while.

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Superbowl Sunday

by Derek on January 26th, 2010
Superbowl Sunday

Because really if you’re someone like me who doesn’t follow sports at all and knows very very few people who follow sports (but you still don’t talk to them about sports) and if you don’t read newspaper headlines on the subway how easy would it be to avoid knowing anything at all about the Superbowl? The commercials are the one thing that register on my radar at all every year about the Superbowl.

The last time though I “watched” the Superbowl was 2004 and by “watched” I mean I was hanging out with friends playing Virtua Fighter 4 on one TV while the other TV was playing the Superbowl for when we wanted to see the commercials.

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Academy Awards 2009

by Derek on February 23rd, 2009
Academy Awards 2009

Last night instead I watched the latest episode of Battlestar Galactica, helped assemble our new coffee table and did some cleaning around the apartment. After that I read the winners. If I don’t watch the bits after writing this little blurb, I’ll probably be doing it as you read today’s comic. I heard that the Oscars this year had some secrets in store for how they were going to make it more entertaining in hopes of getting better ratings that have gone down year after year.

But with sites like YouTube I don’t see how ratings can really go anywhere but down for things like the Oscars. Even people who don’t care about the Superbowl like me don’t have to even have the TV on in hopes of catching a cool commercial because they’re all online the following morning at the latest.


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Happens Periodically

by Derek on September 7th, 2006
Happens Periodically

With sites like YouTube and Google Video it’s easy to forget there was a time when it was harder to find video of footage of just about anything you could think of. There was a time when you would save all these random videos and then show them to your friends when either they came over or visited your dorm room. But now with a good internet connection all you have to do is save links with something like a Delicious account.

YouTube and to a slightly lesser extent Wikipedia are really good time wasters (too good in fact). First time I was on Wikipedia I just kept on tabbing links and would read about one topic for hours and hours. On YouTube you just think of a theme (recently I was looking at the introductions to 80s animated and live-action TV shows) and you could be occupied for even longer because almost anything you can think of is on there. Best thing I saw recently was sent to me by my friend Mark.


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