Youtube - Textp Mode

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posted by subbie on Mar 31, 2010:

Anybody else hit up youtube's april fools day gag?

You can view HD videos built with text. Just go to where you set the video res and pick textp.

The new Mario Galaxy 2 trailer is pretty bitchen with it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dig5857h7vQ

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posted by ASSEMbler on Mar 31, 2010:

Interesting. They must be swimming in money to have time for this.
 

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posted by Cyantist on Apr 1, 2010:

ASSEMbler said:






Interesting. They must be swimming in money to have time for this.

they said its saving them money.

If its saving them money let them keep itlonger than just april fools . Its a interesting little gadget
 

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posted by skateforjondoe on Apr 1, 2010:

I hate April Fools.
 

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posted by AntiPasta on Apr 2, 2010:

Damn, it's gone now...
 

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posted by ServiceGames on Apr 2, 2010:

They should have kept it around. It was an interesting feature to fool around with.

And if anyone actually believed that they were saving $1 per second, per video being streamed, they are in fact a fool.
 

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posted by 7Force on Apr 2, 2010:

If you use VLC, it's got a similar feature. Just enable the color ASCII art video output from the preferences.
 

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posted by subbie on Apr 2, 2010:

ServiceGames said:






They should have kept it around. It was an interesting feature to fool around with.

And if anyone actually believed that they were saving $1 per second, per video being streamed, they are in fact a fool.

Yeah specially since the video is still streamed to you. You can flip on and off textP mode with out it needing to re-download portions of the film (unlike when you flip between res).