This may seem a tad picky...but for anyone else who appreciates BATTLESTAR GALACTICA's wondrous visual effects shots, let it be noted for the record that Hulu's webisode stream looks MUCH better on full-screen mode than either SciFi.com or YouTube versions. I realize none of us fanatics would wait out the 1-4 day delay for vids to show up on Hulu...but it's definitely worth a second look once it posts there. Thanks to reader redwards95 for pointing out that the webisodes are also posting to Hulu's even better-looking HD high-res 480p stream, if your connection can handle it.
[How to go full-screen on a Hulu vid: watch the ad and get the vid started. Hover cursor over vid and when vid menu appears, press the full-screen icon in upper right corner of screen. To return to small-screen view, press reduce-screen icon in lower right corner; or press the Escape button on your keyboard. The other way to do all this: click on the vid while it's playing to pop up a new Hulu window, and use it to switch to full-screen view. To get to the 480p high-res stream, you must open this new Hulu window, and select the 480p icon on the lower right corner.]
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Well, that's just a bit more salt in the wounds of non-Americans. Alas.
Yeah, I know, sorry. But it matters to me. On the bright side: any version by any means necessary will give you the story!
To follow up, I agree, in the global community we find ourselves, can't we knock down these stupid technichal constraints!
Ps, ProgGrrl, whats the secret of generating good traffic to your BSG site (I set one up this morning!)
Thanks
Also if you have a fast connection, Hulu has a button in the lower right of the video menu that streams in HD (480p) and looks even better.
@redwards: Thanks! ::fixes post::
@James: 1. Post Often. 2. Be incredibly awesome.
No offense, but since when has 480p been HD? Man, I've been watching stuff in HD on my computer monitor since the early 90s then ;)
I find it absurd that I can't watch them despite being just over here in Canada. So, if I drove across the border and used my laptop in a coffee shop to grab the stream it'd be alright, but sitting at home it isn't? Sometimes these corporations are just outright idealogically stupid.
Thanks for the great tip! The quality at Hulu is much better (I watched 480p).
The correct lingo is that the 480p is hi-rez (that's what Hulu says) - meaning it's higher rez than if you watch the normal stream. I think HD means 720 or better. (Is that why my daughter called me a "nerd" the other day? I thought she was complementing me at first but then I found out otherwise. [grin])
Webisode 2 is up now, and so is a review at
http://galacticavariants.blogspot.com/
seems to me that the quality of ep. 2 on the bsg site is improved. Does anyone else feel that way too?
- Jeremy
meaning when compared to ep. 1.
- J
@Jeremy...Hmm, is someone out there...by gods...actually READING THIS BLOG? LOL
ok. I'll stop reading and only look at the pretty pictures. ha.
- J
(I meant someone with an influence on stream quality. D'oh.)
I'm either vane or dull... or both... funny thing is that when I saw the quality of ep2 on the bsg site, my first thought was that someone must have read your blog. (Part of me suspects that hulu hosts for the content providers and that maybe they just connected to a different stream this time...).
- J
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