Crap web video

In the latest Venture Voice episode Fred Seibert talks about Channel Frederator. A little ashamed never even having heard of what sounded like a really cool cartoon channel, I immediately checked it out when I reached the office.

After watching the first few minutes of what looks like it’s supposed to be a great cartoon I gave up in disgust. If you ‘really love cartoons and the people who make them’ (as they say on the about page), then why do you make them look this awful?

Heavy combing (‘hmm, I wonder what this de-interlace checkbox is for?’) with lots of low-bitrate encoding artifacts on top. Yuck.

Granted, you can download a higher bitrate mpeg-4 version that looks better although it still has the combing artifacts.