TV: October 2005 Archives

Everyone's complaining about the low resolution of the videos you can download from iTunes Music Store, but I just downloaded a show, and it looks good enough for casual viewing. I watched it in full screen mode on my iBook, and it's fine. Sure HD would be great, but considering I downloaded a 43-minute show (209MB) in fewer than 10 minutes through my standard cable connection, I can't really complain.

Here's a full-size screen grab. It's from the pilot for Lost. Note that you can see the little hairs around the guy's eye, and that the banding you see seems to be an artifact of the screen grabber, and is not visible in the original video source. Not too bad.

Update: For comparison's sake, here's a screenshot taken from the DVD, taken from the same scene.