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In November, YouTube announced that they would soon start allowing their users to serve up videos in the goddy splendor of 1080p (psst: that’s Blu-Ray’s resolution, “Full HD”). While this isn’t the first appearance of streaming 1080p video online, YouTube’s network is best known for its sheer breadth and volume – not video fidelity.
Months crawled by without any YouTube encounters of 1080p (personally), but yesterday = eureka.
At 1920×1080 pixels, my laptop was simply not Brasky enough for the challenge of properly measuring the quality. So I wired it up to a 23″ 1080p-capable monitor via HDMI and had a look…
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This picture was snapped with a camera phone, but I think it conveys the sexiness of the display on this particular video, a stellar DJ set by Nosaj Thing, live KEXP. Peep it.
Conclusion: With the prospect of near-infinite video coming to us at resolutions that exceed the faculty of our* own eyeballs, 2010 is coming through on its promise of futurific majesty…
Hoverboards must be close.
* Bill Brasky’s eyes can detect the entire spectrum of electromagnetic waves, including the volatile “titty rays” reported between 20 nm – 50 nm.
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lol @ illustration drawing attention to 1080p