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Mini-Reaction to the iTunes Video Store

Cait and I watched the two-part pilot to Lost last night, as purchased on the iTunes Music/Video Store. I was initially quite skeptical because of the resolution: 320x240 is pretty low, especially to watch on a laptop.

Actually, when played at full screen, the shows looked pretty good. While Apple is using a pretty low resolution, their encoding (presumably H.264) is top-notch, with no noticeable artifacts other than slight blockiness because of upsampling (which was quite reasonable).

While I’ll probably pick up the DVDs to the first season of Lost to watch the rest, there’s a good chance I’ll go back to iTunes if I want to catch up on this season.

Hamster Dance Song

I learned this weekend that the song from the original Hamster Dance was taken from Disney’s Robin Hood. Anyone else remember the brilliant Hamster Dance Superbowl ad? I think it was for E*Trade, but I can’t find any reference on the web.

Know Your Enemy part II

Found in a round of Next Blogging: the top five most deadly robots.

A JavaScript URL Decoding Box

Paste in the text to decode, then click "Fix."