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Nov 09
YouTube announced that it will soon display its online videos in high definition.
YouTube says starting next week it will support the same high-resolution video that can now be seen on flat screen TVs.
The online video unit of Google Inc. said Thursday it will support video playback in the full high-definition format known as 1080p, upgrading from the current 720p.
After engineers tested its system, YouTube spokesman Chris Dale said the company is not worried about infrastructure problems or higher costs associated with supporting bulkier files.
Videos uploaded from regular users will still have a 10-minute limit, although the maximum file size will likely get a boost from 2 gigabytes.
Videos that had already been uploaded at 1080p will be automatically re-encoded to play back at the higher resolution.
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Nov 09
Last week we recorded a podcast episode for one of our own productions called TorsdagsSurr. The goal is to record a relaxed an informal chat about the future of entertainment online. Usualy we just do audio but this time we decided to do both audio and video live, the video part was supposed to be two small videos of me and Linda and also we would show one of our desktops.
The initial setup was like this:
- Garageband recording audio for the MP3-version, to be mixed afterwards
- Screenflow recording my desktop
- A window of iChat with iTheater showing our faces and a KeyNote with images and video
- CamTwist to stream my desktop
- Ustream as streaming service
- Using “Share this screen” in OS X so that we both would see the same thing on our screens
We had to remove some of these features the hours before the recording because it became to complex. But even though we removed some steps we lost our connection and presence in the technical jungle that we had built.
The episode was not a success but at least we learned a good lesson – focus on the content! Next time we will keep it more low key and focus on the content and the audio part.
Sometimes things dont work out the way you want to. But still, you always learn something from it. Just wanted to share that.
But I had two great beers from two great craft breweries this weekend. That made me feel better.. 
If you are into beer here they are, a very nice barley wine from Anchor Brewing Co. and a lovely IPA from Gread Divide.
That’s it for now.
//Tomas