downloaded quick, began playing almost instantaneously, and looked peachy fine

using Mac wih OS9.2

No problem whatsoever.

The Quicktime 7 version looked noticeably better.

Looked great, downloaded instantly--absolutely comparable to prior clips.

Quicktime 7 is AWESOME. If you've got it check out the HD gallery on the apple quicktime site (esp. the bbc motion video, it's incredible!)

I have been working with compression codecs for about eight years. 1) The 264 is the BEST compression codec ever and, 2) whoever does the compression for this site does a supeb job.

It really looks stellar. A little quieter maybe? Probably just me.

BTW

I tried it on a Windows box: XP SP2 in Firefox with QT 6.5.2 worked brilliantly...

looked identical, but I thought the sound was "tinnier" with the 7 version. Sound was deeper in the fatter, older version, but not by much. using os 10.3.9 with qt 7

"Days away from the Prime Ministers election in england..."

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

It should have said "Days away in the General election in the United Kingdom"

fucking americans.

Teflon Tony with a Chicago accent...fucking brilliant. Quicktime 7 worked quickly and smoothly, and I'm using a PC.

England, United Kingdom, Britain...it's all the same to us ignorant Americans.

Quicktime 7 is much much faster, but the audio sounds tinny.

For anyone that is interested. Here are the settings I normally use for compressing the typical talking heads video. Compression: MPEG-4 Quality: Medium Frame rate: 15 Key frame rate 75 Filter: HSL Balance Lightness: 112

Sound: Format:Qualcomm PureVoice Sample Rate: 11.025 kHz Sample Size 16 Channels: 1

The only change I made on the H.264 was to reduce the video quality to just above low say low.25 In other tests if I use the same settings I get comprable file sizes but the quality is much better with the H.264

Is everyone using PCs sure they are using the second link. I was under the impression that the H.264 codec wasn't available for Quicktime for PCs yet. Great news if it is, I really like the new codec and it will save both bandwidth and storage space.

When that first started, I thought they were going to go with "Blair was born in Scotland", but then again it's the sad, sad Tonight Show.

It's not so much "fucking americans" as "fucking jay leno and also NBC for sucking at all attempts to remake british television"

(Granted, most of us Americans don't pay enough attention to know that the UK has a parliament system and the Prime Minister isn't directly elected, but please don't generalize that we're all ignorant)

Teflon Tony's gonna win of course. Today's Sun (Murdoch's orgasm - in newspaper form) actually summed up electoral politics quite nicely... A picture of a topless Blair with the revelation that he's "a five times a night man".

The country is safe.

The Quicktime 7 version looked great, and at a very small size!

firefox (or IE6) on XP w/ Quicktime 6.5.1

I only get audio, then the plugin asks to be updated... then it says required plugin is unavaliable.

great site. thank you thank you

Quicktime 7 version looks and sounds better.

Noticeably faster download, no loss in quality.

Please continue to use the H.264 codec (and keep up your fantastic posts!)

OH MY GOD!!! I am watching The Daily Show now, Norm, I hope you show the piece on Blair in the beginning.

Thanks for everything, Norm!

I have to wait a couple of more hours before I get today's program.

I'm looking forward to it.

"Prime Minister's election" - Wrong!

"in England" - Wrong!

...something about brown teeth - Wow, what is it about that stereotype? Is that from the same comedy genius who managed to get everyone calling the French cheese-eating surrender monkeys?

All I can say is, we're all doomed.

Have you ever noticed how pretentious some people get when discussing issues surrounding the U.K. - specifically the finite details of politics. Sometimes it needs to be dummed down, relax. I wonder if some of those same people get just as offended if you misquote a line from a Monty Pyton movie or an episode of The Black Adder.

Sorry, having a crappy day and couldn't resist.

Ricky,

I think the reason for this is that when you see reporting of American politics in the UK (or anywhere else, in my experience) they don't make such major factual errors. People on American TV shows don't even know the difference between England, Great Britain, and the UK, so they just use the terms interchangeably. You even hear people like Colin Powell doing this sometimes.

No one would expect average Americans to have to know these things or understand how the British political system differs from their own, just like you wouldn't expect non-Americans to know all the states or the details of the electoral college, but you'd think reporters and people like that would at least make themselves familiar with the basics. I don't really consider that pretentious.

And yes I know the Daily Show is comedy, and I don't think any normal person would be genuinely seriously offended by that clip, but over here even in comedy, there are just nowhere near as many crude stereotypes thrown around. People know enough about Bush to be able to laugh at things like "You forgot Poland" instead of laughing at stereotypes about all Americans being obese or believing in creationism or something like that. I get the impression that the rest of the world knows a whole lot more about the USA than the USA knows about the rest of the world. And that's not some kind of veiled anti-American comment, because I like America, it's just an observation on how there seems to be an attitude in the USA that other countries are a bit of a joke, their people have brown teeth or eat cheese and surrender, while meanwhile America invented democracy, America is the greatest country in the world (American politicians routinely say that), etc, etc. Anyway, I'll shut up now.

And when I say "there seems to be an attitude in the USA", I don't mean all Americans of course.

QT 7 version downloaded faster and video quality was better.

Point well taken, anon. :)