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July 31 2008

Joss Whedon, Cyberspace Hero. An article that asks us to remember when Hollywood was going to take over the Internet. (And yet didn't.) And here's a similar article on the Daily Herald (Chicago!) Can't think of anything witty for this link. Sorry. Just click it, please.

NYPinTA | Dr. Horrible | 00:52 CET | 28 comments total | tags: bring on the new paradigm, dr horrible, you go, joss whedon.

I find now on MySpace that I have all sorts of other groups that do webisodes, wanting to befriend me. Since they don't have the name recognition of Joss, I take a look and if I think they are any good, I accept.

Lioness | July 31, 01:21 CET

I like the bit about how Joss "somehow infiltrated network TV with Buffy the Vampire Slayer a decade ago", because I dig the image of it being an infiltration.

The One True b!X | July 31, 01:40 CET

He infiltrated. In plain sight.

NYPinTA | July 31, 01:53 CET

Any time a really smart person gets a really smart show on TV, I do consider it infiltration.

rbt | July 31, 02:00 CET

Now THIS is what I call a review! Has enough snark, enough pop, but doesn't dawdle on the minor "needs to know" to bring in more viewers and high-five those who watched it already.

*props*

korkster | July 31, 02:19 CET

Found another similar story, so to save space I just added the link up top.

NYPinTA | July 31, 04:13 CET

Wow, you did it, NYPinTA! Another good review! Thanks! :) Now this is what I'm talking about. /annoyinggutteralvoice

korkster | July 31, 04:30 CET

I'd like to take credit for it, korkster, but your thanks should go to Google. 'Google knows everything. Except how to love.'

NYPinTA | July 31, 04:36 CET

Nope. Creds to you. I have Google, but we're not tight like that. I heard that Yahoo bought out the love before Google could get its sites on it. Figures.

korkster | July 31, 04:48 CET

Cool. I got cred! ;P

NYPinTA | July 31, 05:02 CET

I like that second one a lot!

BrewBunny | July 31, 05:28 CET

"when I watched them on full-screen mode the video had that staggering, stuttering quality that makes your eyeballs feel as if they're vibrating in their sockets."
I downloaded the iTunes and played it full screen on my large iMac, and it looks absolutely beautiful... as good as a DVD. But I'm glad it is still available on Hulu because a lot of my friends missed it before, and I hate to have anyone miss this.

One friend is getting totally hooked, after watching Doctor Horrible she immediately went on to watch The Guild!

embers | July 31, 06:16 CET

Cool review.I'd never heard of Pop.com.
When it mentions strange girls supposedly confesing on their webcams,is that a reference to lonelygirl15?

Silly studios.Thinking they could control the internet.

okelay | July 31, 06:40 CET

I'm sure there's a very special hell for the use of the word 'Cyberspace'.

Caroline | July 31, 07:06 CET

Agreed. How very Tron.

Willowy | July 31, 07:10 CET

Tron? Tron?! Show more respect to William Gibson, the coiner of the term. ;)

The One True b!X | July 31, 07:54 CET

Indeed, props to the Gib. It's not a term that really applies anyway IMO - yet. When the 'space' aspect is less metaphorical and more literal (as it is in his stories/books) then maybe people won't feel totally stupid using it (or maybe it'll still smack too much of the early days of mass net acceptance and so be deemed "too 20th century" - kind of ironic considering one of the "big ideas" of cyberpunk was future-shock ;).

But the idea of media on the net being tamed by "lunkheaded college students" makes me smile. Who'd have thought 'Jackass' could be responsible for (possibly) one of the most sweeping mass media changes in the last 50 years, maybe ever ? ;)

Saje | July 31, 11:31 CET

Oh yes, this is sweet indeed. ;-)

I like the bit about how Joss "somehow infiltrated network TV with Buffy the Vampire Slayer a decade ago", because I dig the image of it being an infiltration.
theonetruebix | July 31, 01:40 CET

The only thing that would have made that quote better is if he'd said "the incredibly subversive" BtVS. :)

Shey | July 31, 11:48 CET

I downloaded the iTunes and played it full screen on my large iMac, and it looks absolutely beautiful

Laptops are typically slower than towers because laptops run hotter. High quality is nice and all if you have the fast computer. But it's kinda like releasing a DVD only in Blu-Ray format when not everyone has Blu-Ray player. A big reason why YouTube is so successful is because the videos can play on most anyone's computer, and thus wider audience. Most people would take blurry over choppy.

GrrrlRomeo | July 31, 13:44 CET

Must admit, i've got a first gen Athlon, an early GeForce 4 card and only a gig of cheapo RAM and Dr H (streaming, still no international iTunes) played smooth as silk for me without any tweaking beyond what I probably did back when I first set the box up. I mean, there're older setups out there but that's pretty far from cutting edge i'd say.

(just got some new super-swanky-and-yet-obviously-already-obsolete bits in the post today in fact, yay ;)

Saje | July 31, 13:53 CET

Dr. Horrible played fine (in small screen) on my ooooold Pentium III, 533 Mhz computer with no exceptional video card to speak of and a small amount of RAM. So I'd say it worked just fine. But there are streaming video sites I can't watch out there, with my set-up, so I was glad DHSAB worked for me :).

Pretty soon I'll be getting a left-over lab computer from our astronomy department, featuring a 1Ghz processor. Welcome to... 2002? .... me ;)

[ edited by GVH on 2008-07-31 14:42 ]

GVH | July 31, 14:41 CET

I have projected the iTunes Dr. Horrible Acts onto the big screen several times in my video classes - the quality was perfectly wonderful.

The reason for the laggies is that Dr. H is encoded with a nifty new(ish) compression method that allows for the high quality and high resolution of both the web and iTunes versions while keeping the download size small, but requires a fast processor to decompress and play back in real-time. Older computers don't fare so well. But a recent bargain-basement laptop from any of the major vendors should do ok.

peacemonger | July 31, 16:33 CET

Yeah I found the H.264 encoding made for somewhat jerky playback at 1920x1200 fullscreen on my single-core bedroom media machine. Fortunately, as crazy random happenstance would have it, some magical gnomes came in the night and deposited DRM-free versions of all three acts on my computer. After re-encoding them as simple MPEG-2 (and stitching them into a single file), Dr H is now full of full-screen goodness. At least close enough till I can buy the DVDs.

AlanD | July 31, 16:55 CET

I'm gonna deliberately misconstrue "bedroom media", just for shits and giggles. Hope that's OK ;).

Saje | July 31, 17:03 CET

*giggles*

korkster | July 31, 18:44 CET

This is awesome. I work at the Metro Pulse (first article) and no joke check whedonesque every hour or so. My two worlds have collided!

mito | July 31, 18:44 CET

Oooo. Colliding worlds. Can I take credit for that too?

NYPinTA | July 31, 19:34 CET

*creds*

korkster | July 31, 21:36 CET

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