{"id":517,"date":"2005-12-02T20:18:23","date_gmt":"2005-12-03T03:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=517"},"modified":"2005-12-02T20:18:23","modified_gmt":"2005-12-03T03:18:23","slug":"the-revolution-will-be-live-and-in-hd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2005\/12\/the-revolution-will-be-live-and-in-hd\/","title":{"rendered":"The revolution will be live (and in HD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"sg-marginalia-250\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eng.morgan.edu\/~cjt\/poetry\/revol.html\">The lyrics<\/a> to <em>The Revolution Will Not Be Televised<\/em><\/span>So what excuse do I have this week for the sparse blogging? It just so happens that in the same week I got hold of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/powermac\/\">new Mac<\/a>, Bredbandsbolaget upgraded my neighborhood to 100Mbps at no extra charge (bless them), and the upshot is that I&#8217;ve been sitting here agape watching live high-definition video <em>streaming<\/em> via Apple&#8217;s Quicktime.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that the novelty will wear off over time and I will start demanding actual content rather than teasers, but for now, if your system can handle it, rush to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/quicktime\/guide\/hd\/\">Apple&#8217;s new HD page<\/a> to marvel at what we&#8217;ll take for granted in a few years from now: On-demand streaming HD video content. It&#8217;s so good it&#8217;s ridiculous &mdash; for example, the 1080p stream of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/quicktime\/guide\/hd\/cornell.html\">animal video from the Macaulay Library<\/a>, at a resolution of 1920&#215;1080 pixels, is too expansive even for my 20-inch 1600&#215;1050-pixel monitor.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC has also gotten in on the act (they are good that way) with something called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbcmotiongallery.com\/Customer\/TheatreHD.aspx\">BBC Motion<\/a>, a site where video producers can buy HD footage, among other things. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/quicktime\/guide\/hd\/bbc-andes.html\">Their teasers<\/a> are gorgeous as well.<\/p>\n<p>When not watching HD video or tweaking the new Mac (an important pursuit akin to gardening, or so I imagine) I&#8217;ve been engaging in that deadliest of all creativity killers, socializing with friends. At this rate, Stockholm 2006 will turn into New York 1999. I really must try harder to reconnect with my inner misanthrope. What will it take &mdash; moving to Africa?<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of misanthropes, I think I shall go blog \u00c5ke Green now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lyrics to The Revolution Will Not Be TelevisedSo what excuse do I have this week for the sparse blogging? It just so happens that in the same week I got hold of a new Mac, Bredbandsbolaget upgraded my neighborhood &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2005\/12\/the-revolution-will-be-live-and-in-hd\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7eNhC-8l","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}