Summer is in full swing, and while most people are out enjoying the sun, taking vacations and relaxing, we here at Revision3 have been working hard behind the scenes! After our new website launched in May, we set forth on the next batch of changes to make your experience at Revision3.com as awesome as it can be.
A lot of the changes we’ve been making recently have been to fix bugs and other little things you really shouldn’t even notice, but today we rolled out some changes that you should definitely notice! Now, at long last we’re providing you with crisp, beautiful and sharp HIGH DEFINITION video via the Revision3.com flash player! So now you can watch Diggnation, Film Riot or any of the other great Revision3 programming in glorious HD! In order to watch the shows in HD, all you need to do is scroll over the flash player, and in the lower right corner you can will see the Quality tab. Hover over that, click on HD and voila! High Definition! As you know, HD can mean big files, so if you’re on a slower connection, you may want to downshift to the High or Low quality versions.
In addition to supporting HD, we’ve made some changes to the file formats we support. For those interested in technical details - we’re doing away with FLV video encodes beginning next week. You shouldn’t notice anything, though, as Flash supports h.264-encoded video now. We’re now able to use the same encodes we send to iTunes and others, which saves us time every week, and means we can concentrate more effort on fewer formats,but still support the same number of platforms. We’ve successfully tested this on Revision3.com already (Tekzilla 94, Hak5 519), and now it’s ready for prime time! The only thing to watch out for: if you’re currently using the “Flash” RSS feeds, you’ll want to switch to the “Quicktime” ones, because the “Flash” feeds won’t update any more beginning next week. Thanks to Brendan White for lots of testing on the Revision3 side, and various forum members for assistance in making sure things continued to work while tweaking our mp4s.
We hope you enjoy watching Revision3 in High Definition and please let us know what you think. This move to HD comes just in time for our newest show, HD Nation, which you will be hearing more about next week. Keep on the lookout as well for more changes and updates to Revision3.com and please let us know if there’s anything you’d like to see, be it a new show or change to the website. We’re here to make your viewing experience the best it possibly can be.
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