IT Legends - Tech in Connecticut

I upgraded my laptop’s wireless adapter, thinking that perhaps this could have been part of the problem with hulu.com’s performance. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem that way. I did notice that the imperfections are seen less when not in full screen - but they are the same imperfections. They are just more visible when in full screen mode. One thing I sincerely dislike about hulu.com is if you take focus away from the browser while in full screen mode and want to type something somewhere else, (more…)

Travis told me about hulu - they had BSG Season 4 Episode 1, too! The video quality was indeed better, but the playback was still a little choppy. NetFlix still has the best online viewing I’ve tested out yet. iTunes has been good to me, too. But both of those are pay-to-view. Maybe the commercial-supported model just isn’t up to par yet - but it should be! I dunno what’s goin’ on with these people.

OK, so I was pretty excited for the premier of Battlestar Gallactica Season 4, I actually purchased all of Seasons 1-3 from iTunes and the mini-series movie thing that started the series’ off. The quality on those is alright. But I just watched the season opener for season 4 off scifi.com and the video was really choppy. At first, I thought maybe it was my old refurb IBM Thinkpad - I have it hooked up to my TV via S-Video cable. But I’m able to watch my NetFlix member videos online fine - no chop. This was choppy! So I decided to check it out on my desktop, dual core, 256 MB video, 2GB RAM… nah, that was choppy too! In the same spots! Man, SciFi needs to learn a couple lessons from NetFlix or even NBC.com (I watch Chuck and Heroes online, too) on how to do this! No ads on the show, though it looked like it was partitioned up and ready for ads. Maybe if they could sell ads to the online viewing they could get better video encoding.

That being said, I enjoyed the episode, just not the experience of watching it online.