Escapist Video Quality

[Thrasher4567]

In my personal opinion the videos on the Escapist website are pretty bad quality. By quality i mean the resolution of the videos. The videos for Unskippable and the review supplementary videos have low resolution, making it hard to distinguish what is happening on screen. We live in a HiRes, HiDef society now, so reviewing games and making videos in low res is kinda odd. I can understand the need for lower quality videos for people with slower internet connections but most people on this site probably have broadband or some equivalent. Is there any way that there can be an option to choose whether we want high quality or low quality videos? Or is that too expensive? Thanks for your time.

 

[StigmataDiaboli]

In my personal opinion the videos on the Escapist website are pretty bad quality. By quality i mean the resolution of the videos. The videos for Unskippable and the review supplementary videos have low resolution, making it hard to distinguish what is happening on screen. We live in a HiRes, HiDef society now, so reviewing games and making videos in low res is kinda odd. I can understand the need for lower quality videos for people with slower internet connections but most people on this site probably have broadband or some equivalent. Is there any way that there can be an option to choose whether we want high quality or low quality videos? Or is that too expensive? Thanks for your time.

Put it this way; its better quality than Youtube.

 

[Thrasher4567]

Even youtube has hires available on some videos, ive seen some gaming sites link to youtube vids because some (especially ones uploaded by game companies) have both Hires and Lowres options available.

 

[Dual Pandas]

The reason they dont have it is cause its expensive, low res is cheap. but they should have the option to view in high res.

 

[Zeke109]

agreed, but you'd think these guys weren't money-grubbers.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

I can't tell. The videos haven't been loading for weeks on this computer.

 

[HyenaThePirate]

I was JUST thinking the same thing about Unskippable.
I really enjoy their videos, but the quality is woefully bad. It's most apparent in the recent webisode of Lost Odyssey. I could barely make out what was happening it was so murky and blurry.
Honestly, it looks like they film the cut scenes with the same camera russians use to film movies for pirating.
It's a shame too because Unskippable is a joy to watch and I eagerly await every new episode.

 

[Weaver]

agreed, but you'd think these guys weren't money-grubbers.

They're also not to keen on losing money due to bandwidth costs either. Though, with the amount of bandwidth the forums use I'd bet they have an unlimited bandwidth plan with their site provider. In that case I don't know what to say!

 

[Roboto]

This may seem like a necropost, but I searched and there was nothing up.

It seems as of late that escapist videos are very pixelated. Is this to push pub club?