For the topic, this post is rather late. I watched (parts) of the Super Bowl this year. Basically, just the commercials. That’s all I ever watch. But I noticed something as a result of all this.
SD commercials seem terrible.
I’m so used to HD that I look down on SD commercials. When you look at the way the commercials were rated this year, some of them I didn’t think much of. The Blockbuster ad with the two little animals was quite popular, but I can tell you that I dismissed that ad the instant it came on because it was in SD. It was kind of cute, but I never would have called it one of the best because it was in SD.
I’m an HD snob, apparently.
Strange how things change your perspective. I wonder if this is how people would have viewed things when color television first came around and the Super Bowl, as it exists today… a showcase of ads, existed then.
But the thing I find annoys me the most is the 16:9 SD ads. They look fine on an SDTV, but when you show them in an HD signal, they look terrible. They are the right aspect ratio to fill the screen, and the broadcaster could force them to by stretching them, but they don’t. So I’m sitting there watching an HDTV show. I see HDTV ads. Both look good. I see SD ads that are 4:3 and just have bars on the sides of the picture. I’m used to that and it’s no problem. But then one of these ads comes on, and there are bars on the TOP, BOTTOM, LEFT, AND RIGHT of the picture. It’s a little ad afloat in a sea of black. It just looks stupid.
So where am I on my XCode problem? I gave up on the download. The next day I realized that we had purchased that Mac for my parents a few weeks ago and I went and got the installation CDs that came with it and they included XCode 2.4. It is one point release short, but at least it didn’t take 3 days to download.
