{"id":3309,"date":"2005-05-06T23:34:56","date_gmt":"2005-05-07T06:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/05\/06\/quicktime-7-hd\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T14:45:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T22:45:45","slug":"quicktime-7-hd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/05\/06\/quicktime-7-hd\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickTime 7 HD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh. My. God.<\/p>\n

I installed QuickTime 7<\/a> the other day, and found Apple’s HD Gallery<\/a> page where they’re showcasing a few HD trailers and video clips. The trailer for Serenity<\/a> is available in both 720p and 1080p formats, and even though my system (a dual 2.0Ghz G5 with a 64Mb Radeon 9600 video card) technically doesn’t meet the requirements<\/a> to playback 1080p, I downloaded both to see how they behaved.<\/p>\n

Beautiful. Not a stutter on either one, and the video quality is amazing<\/em>. What amused me, though, is that my screen (which I run at a slightly non-standard 1152×870) isn’t big enough to display them at full size! The 720p trailer just loses a little bit off of either side, but the 1080p trailer? I can only fit about half of it on my screen at once. Wow.<\/p>\n

\"Quicktime<\/a>Just for grins and giggles, I decided to download all the different Serenity trailers available to compare them. I grabbed all four “normal” versions from the Serenity trailer page<\/a> (small, medium, large, and full screen), the two HD versions from the Serenity HD page<\/a>, opened them all up at once, and paused each one at 1:02.<\/p>\n

(While I was doing this, I started them all playing at once just to see what would happen. Even with all the other versions playing at the same time, the gargantuan 1080i trailer still<\/em> kept up a very watchable 18fps average framerate!)<\/p>\n

Here’s the end result:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/table>\n

Pretty damn impressive.<\/p>\n

\"iTunes\"<\/a>\"\" “Tell Me Why<\/a>” by :Wumpscut:<\/a> from the album Bunker Gate Seven<\/a><\/em> (1995, 4:11).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just for grins and giggles, I decided to download all the different Serenity trailers available to compare them. I grabbed all four ‘normal’ versions from the Serenity trailer page, the two HD versions from the Serenity HD page, opened them all up at once, and took a peek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2039,2037],"tags":[23,2750],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

version<\/th>\nsize (MB)<\/th>\nfps<\/th>\nsize (pixels)<\/th>\ndata rate (kbits\/sec)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
small<\/td>\n4.8<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n240×104<\/td>\n288.78<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
medium<\/td>\n8.45<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n320×136<\/td>\n505.18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
large<\/td>\n20.98<\/td>\n24<\/td>\n480×208<\/td>\n1259.23<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
fullscreen<\/td>\n40.4<\/td>\n24<\/td>\n640×272<\/td>\n2363.67<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
720p<\/td>\n108.33<\/td>\n24<\/td>\n1280×544<\/td>\n6406.26<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1080p<\/td>\n138.36<\/td>\n24<\/td>\n1920×816<\/td>\n8182.54<\/td>\n