Comments on: Ponzi & Pirillo

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 11:22:15 +0000

I agree. Don't use proprietary video formats. Use open standards such as MPEG-4. Higher resolutions such as 480×480 is ok – will look better on both PSP and 5Gen iPod and I am sure it will look better if projected from a DLP (yay!).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 00:23:29 +0000

I am TOTALLY looking forward to these video casts. The more Ponzi the better!!! :-)
I'm on my iBook most of the time, so I would appreciate seeing a QT podcast. The HD videos in QT7 are so pretty

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 00:14:55 +0000

Chris, if you're going to choose ONE format, I'd recommend:
MPEG-4 Simple Profile (SP), 320×240, 29.97 fps or 15 fps, 384 kbps or QB4, two-pass encoding, audio at 96kbps (stereo), file named with a .MP4 extension.
That format will happily play on just about every modern device without re-encoding: the PSP (yay!), 5th generation iPod, Creative Zen Vision and other PMPs, iPAQ/Axim Pocket PCs, and of course a PC with any of a least 10 different MPEG-4 software players.
MPEG-4 is an open standard. Please don't confine it to .WMV even if they are sponsoring you as that format is often hard to re-convert, has spotty playback performance on non-Windows devices, and is sometimes avoided by certain aggregators and search engines.
Would hate to miss Ponzi's pouts and Chris's eye-rolls!

By: Bassam

Bassam — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:06:45 +0000

Great idea! But, I implore you… please don't make it iPod only! Please please put out Divx or Xvid or even WMV codec formats for those of use who have portable media players that are not iPod.
I have a Zen Vision myself.
Thanks!

By: :: jozjozjoz.com ::

:: jozjozjoz.com :: — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:51:30 +0000

Hmm. It's like reality TV without the TV.

By: mikeathome

mikeathome — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:54:31 +0000

whatever you do just dont call it “the chris and ponzi show”
try something better like “wayne's world, party time, party time, excellent… yeah…alright..cool… cool”

By: jules

jules — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:35:36 +0000

Are you morphing into the Lucy and Desi of the techworld?
Chris: “PONZEEEEEEEE!!!! Why did you buy so many shoes?!! That's it! I'm putting you on a budget!”
Ponzi: “WAAHHHHHH!!!”
Seen on a later episode….
Ponzi: “Janet, I'm going to fix Chris next-time he doesn't do the dishes or
wears poopy-underwear…. just you wait, I'll fix him! This time he will have to let me sing at Club Baba-loo!

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 06:01:28 +0000

Uh oh… This should be interesting… ;)