As you might of recalled back a few weeks ago, Vidgle began shooting in HD. All production work for the past year, such as graphics, were produced in HD. A few weeks ago, I posted a blog entry about videos being presented in HD on the website, it turns out that several people liked that favor. So we have decided to put HD videos, as well as our original formatted videos, on to the site.

New York Comic Con 2009 was the first episodes of Con Goer series to be shot in high definition. Though it takes a bit longer for the videos to be uploaded, we feel that uploading HD videos may expand our horizons. The HD videos will also have its own podcast feed.

When is this going to happen, sometime by our coverage of Anime Boston.

Here is what I’ve been doing around the Internet:

	5:38am	Favorited a video on YouTube.
	6:08am	Updated status on Facebook Feed. Anthony might be hosting Super Mario Jeopardy at Otakon!
	11:04am	Posted a photo Con Goer – New York Comic Con 2009 – Panel – Superjail!
	11:14am	Posted a photo Indie Music Wave – 2/23/09

Here is what I’ve been doing around the Internet:

	3:04am	Posted a photo Con Goer – New York Comic Con 2009 – Panel – Superjail!
	3:14am	Posted a photo Indie Music Wave – 2/23/09

Here is what I’ve been doing around the Internet:

	9:38pm	Favorited a video on YouTube.
	10:08pm	Updated status on Facebook Feed. Anthony might be hosting Super Mario Jeopardy at Otakon!

Here is what I’ve been doing around the Internet:

9:44am

Updated status on Facebook Feed. Anthony is at Jeff Mach’s Wicked Faire surrounded by chocolate rain!

Here is what I’ve been doing around the Internet:

1:44am

Updated status on Facebook Feed. Anthony is at Jeff Mach’s Wicked Faire surrounded by chocolate rain!

Here is what I’ve been doing around the Internet:

2:09am

Updated status on Facebook Feed. Anthony is watching out for the earthquakes while in Jersey!

Here is what I’ve been doing around the Internet:

	8:20am	Updated status on Facebook Feed. Anthony is now owned by Facebook!
	11:13am	Updated status on Facebook Feed. Anthony is no longer owned by Facebook.
	1:06am	Vidgle in HD?

Here is what I’ve been doing around the Internet:

	3:13am	Updated status on Facebook Feed. Anthony is no longer owned by Facebook.
	5:06pm	Vidgle in HD?
	8:34pm	Posted a photo Con Goer – New York Comic Con 2009 – Out and About – Saturday
	12:48am	Updated status on Facebook Feed. Anthony is hours away from Wicked Faire!

At Vidgle we have begun shooting our Con Goer series in high definition and all future shows will be shoot in 1080i HD as well. We started in HD this year since we have upgraded our equipment to handle the high definition video smoothly. We are using 6 GB of RAM on our Mac Pro currently and we are planning to max it to 16 GB by the end of the year. This upgrade of equipment wasn’t that expensive since all of our equipment were HD ready, we just didn’t have our video coverage in HD.

Our first coverage in HD was at New York Comic Con in New York City. You can see the HD picture by clicking on the picture above and then clicking it again on the page its displayed in. We currently only master it into 720p HD instead of 1080i.

Some cosplayers were excited that we began filming in HD so that the camera can pick up every single thing they are wearing.

There is some sad news though with this HD transition, the website is not expected to have the HD version in the years to come. All of our videos are on our website server in Los Angeles, not a third party podcast syndication network. Though we have a lot of space, it takes alot of disk space, such as 1 gigabyte for just one of videos. We are planning to have a HQ version which is in EDTV format (that’s 854×480 SD) but we think it is not worth establishing yet. But when we believe the time comes of establishing the HQ or HD feed, we will establish it. Vidgle already has a mobile website, flash video for desktop websites, and a podcast format.

The first Con Goer video that was mastered in HD will be available on Vidgle later today. Click here for the video.

Here are some other pictures in HD that you can find in our video. We’ll let you decide if its better or not! Just click on the picture, then click on the picture that displays on the page it brings you to too get the experience.