I typically highlight a year/network's full day programming or special themes but today I wanted to just throw up a smorgasboard of higher than normal quality streaming videos that are presently available on the net. I connected a laptop to my 42 inch LCD tv this week and the quality was as good as Dish network. THIS is the wave of the future and I am going to build a home theater PC with my tax refund to prepare for all of this great, FREE TV.
Even Youtube is starting to get into the act by offering higher quality downloads of selected videos. If you have a high-speed internet connection youtube's servers are supposed to automatically detect that but you can go in to your settings pages and change the default to always send you high quality videos when available. Finding the high quality videos is a different story, I can't seem to find an easy way to do this just yet.
I have highlighted three of the more popular services. In my eyes GUBA is miles ahead of the competition when it comes to quality and you can download most files from them in the DIVX format for home use. I am not sure if the youtube video that I have highlighted is actually the best that they have to offer but I searched for damn near an hour and that was the best that I could find. The embedded clips all seem to be of a greatly reduced quality so you need to go directly to the source to do a proper evaluation.
Let me know in the comments if I missed something (please). I left out a couple of known entities including JOOST because they don't offer an embedding service and it uses it's own program but I highly recommend this one as well. Their content is growing quickly.
Vintage : Rankin & Bass - Festival of Family Classics - 119 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - 1973
Problem Child - Episode 1 - 1993 (from hulu.com - limited animation selection thus far)
Donald Duck - Crazy over Daisy (youtube)
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