YouTube Widescreen Player

[Update 12/04/08: YouTube now allows for HD streaming. and
YouTube has enabled Widescreen embeds.

Updated 11/24/08: YouTube defaults to 16:9 player format, but what does that mean for the web video industry?]

YouTube’s been going under some mega changes so far this year and now they’ve updated their new player to resize itself to true widescreen resolution. For right now that only pro’s that I can notice between the new widescreen player versus the older player is that if there are widescreen black bars the majority of them will be cut off.

Is this really all that newsworthy? I say no, but the question is why does YouTube find it necessary to release a widescreen format player? There’s got to be something else that this new form of a player can offer that the old one didn’t. Hopefully they’ll let us know what exactly that is soon enough.

Right now because their new player does not embed onto third party sites we can’t show you the differences directly within this post. You can see an example here. Make sure to turn on and off the old/new player to see the differences.

YouTube Widescreen Player

I’m good at photoshop.

The Dark Knight’s Two-Face revealed, looks truly OMFGWTF

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It seems that The Dark Knight and awesomeness go hand-in-hand. After the devastatingly awesome trailer that came on earlier this week, we now have a secretly leaked image of Two-Face, the movie’s second villain, after of course, The Joker.

While The Joker has been the movie’s poster boy, poor old Two-Face has gotten hardly any attention other than as Harvey Dent the politician. But don’t underestimate him. If ye be not afraid of spoilers, hit the jump to find out what Two-Face truly looks like in the film.

You will be amazed. ***THE DARK KNIGHT SPOILERS BELOW***

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The Iron Man Samuel L. Jackson SHIELD scene!

[Update: Tony Stark aka Iron Man in The Incredible Hulk video]

***IRON MAN SPOILERS BELOW***

If you, like me, missed the final scene of the movie because you wanted to blog about it had more important things to do, you need not fear! The ending scene has been leaked to the Internets! Check it out above!For more info on what’s going on, who’s SHIELD, what Samuel L. Jackson is doing there and what Tony Stark will most likely be getting into in Iron Man 2, hit the jump!
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Teaser Poster!

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While the classic Indiana Jones makes a return this summer, heading in this August will be the third edition of The Mummy! And thankfully this time, the action goes east as our adventuring heroes enter the Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (doesn’t sound too bad to be an Indiana Jones title, just less outlandish).

We have the first official teaser poster for the movie, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, but you’ll have to hit the jump for that!

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Dark Knight – Footage Trailer 2 – Sunday

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 Fans of Batman can celebrate as those who have been waiting
for what has felt a lifetime has resulted in the announcement
of another trailer to be released this coming Sunday.

Considering the number of false starts with viral campaigns
and assumed trailers having an actual trailer site appear is
something of a relief. The most recent viral had people all
over the world asking for bowling balls at their local bowling
alley to get a free mobile phone and promo package.

We, just like the rest of the world will be watching in glorious
HD on Sunday with great interest. For those who want everything
now a bootleg youtube copy with horrible picture quality is available
already taken from a cinema.

http://www.whysoserious.com/happytrails/

Matt Damon – Give peace a chance

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Major movie star Matt Damon was approached to voice
and provide his likeness to the new Sierra Bourne game.
Apparently though he saw the games violence and pulled
out. For a man who makes his money showing people how
to kill other people it appears as though it’s a “do as I say,
not as I do” attitude coming from Hollywood’s new Mr Gritty Action.