<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Scobleizer]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://scobleizer.blog]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Robert Scoble]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://scobleizer.blog/author/scobleizer/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Watching the Apple&nbsp;TV&#8230;]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Just was catching up on my reading of TechCrunch, among other feeds, and saw that <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/11/apple-tells-vloggers-fix-your-videos/#comments">Apple is giving video producers some suggestions</a> of ways to make things look good on both Apple TV as well as iPods.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been watching a TON of Internet videos with my son the past few days. I haven&#8217;t found one that really looks awesome yet that can compare with the Discovery Channel&#8217;s HD content, for instance.</p>
<p>That doesn&#8217;t mean they aren&#8217;t watchable. Patrick and I enjoy watching Diggnation, for instance. That content doesn&#8217;t require a high-resolution version.</p>
<p>I find myself wanting more, though, in many videos. Particularly ones that actually show something like what my show did last Friday where we got a tour of Franck Muller, famous Swiss watch maker. There the lack of resolution was frustrating for me as a viewer and as a content developer. What I had on tape was a lot more compelling than what came through on my TV screen.</p>
<p>Today I spent a few hours at Adobe seeing its CS3 Suite (ships on Monday). I wish I could push high resolution versions of the videos down, but I don&#8217;t have the machines, nor can I afford the bandwidth. Now some companies are offering the bandwidth for free, but that gets back to <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/11/apple-tells-vloggers-fix-your-videos/#comments">what Apple&#8217;s suggesting for Internet video producers</a>: doing one format for iTunes that&#8217;ll play on both Apple TV as well as iTunes.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s the best practice in the end. I think if we really want Apple TV customers to be happy we&#8217;ll offer them one feed for that (translation: something that&#8217;s 16:9 and has more resolution than 640xsomething) and another for iPods (cause they can&#8217;t deal with more than 640xsomething resolution).</p>
<p>One other thing? Most Internet video content just is really boring. Mine included. Gotta work on that too along with the resolution.</p>
<p>UPDATE: <a href="http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/04/make_podcast_is_optimized.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890">Make just announced an Apple TV version</a> of its videocast.</p>
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