Comments on: Vimeo’s “HD” isn’t HD

By: eliot

eliot — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:15:40 +0000

That’s why the post starts with “Update” in bold at the top.

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:32:34 +0000

I think Elliot needs to change this post. It was on the first page of search results in google. I read the entire thing, and it took me until the comments section to realize Vimeo actually is HD.

By: Joe Shields

Joe Shields — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:15:30 +0000

“(also 1080i is interlaced so you might as well be watching VHS).”
Think before you say silly things.
because stupid people might start believeing you

By: HiDefFan

HiDefFan — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:11:33 +0000

There’s also a script available on http://www.stevie-o.de/vimeo to watch the videos in their original resolution of 1280/720 pixels. It opens the video in HD mode in a new window. Vimeo’s fullscreen mode sucks

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:00:42 +0000

“Scaling up from 720p is utter shit.”

That post update is shit. The lack of a button was never the issue, but you bring that up instead of just admitting you were wrong. Lame.

By: Jenna Fox

Jenna Fox — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:41:30 +0000

That’s a silly argument Kevin. It doesn’t matter what the video looks like Paused as long as it looks good while playing at normal speed. The only video codec I know of that looks good paused is MJPEG, which isn’t really a video codec at all, just a whole lot of jpeg’s in a video file.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:02:48 +0000

First off Eliot, at the very beginning you say “High-definition means either 720p format or 1080i.” What about 1080p? Just because nothing is broadcast at that resolution doesn’t exclude it from the HD Umbrella.

Second, Vimeo’s attempt at HD is admirable, but ultimately pointless. They take your source footage shot at 720p and compress the hell out of it using flash encoding, so all the beautiful detail is basically lost. Just pause any of the their HD videos, and you’ll see the large color banding and pixelation. I’ll concede that it’s better than youTube. But those guys seriously have to do better.

Excluding H264 which is used to encode your HD-DVD and BluRay movies, the other encoding that does a very admirable job is DivX HD, which when streamed, looks beautiful unlike Vimeo’s pixelated garbage. Back to the drawing board Vimeo.

By: RobotSkirts » Blog Archive » Vimeo adds scaling toggle

RobotSkirts » Blog Archive » Vimeo adds scaling toggle — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:25:57 +0000

[...] left a comment earlier today that Vimeo now has a scaling toggle. It’s visible when you go fullscreen. Now [...]

By: Ted

Ted — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:53:35 +0000

I agree that “All they need is a button that lets you watch it at 1280×720.”

And it’s been added!

By: Frosty

Frosty — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:04:27 +0000

NERD FIGHT!!!!!