Okay, we finally caved in and put a video clip on YouTube today.  We're not big fans of streaming low-resolution video but the popularity of their site cannot be denied.

After spending so much time, money, and effort on top-of-the-line HD cameras, complex HD editing, and cutting-edge video compression and P2P distribution software, it has never made much sense to us to post our episodes on YouTube only to have them downsampled to lousy 320x240 low-bandwidth streaming video (and to sit alongside webcam clips of people lighting their farts on fire).

Nevertheless, we have posted a short promo clip and hopefully it will inspire some of their 16 million monthly viewers to stop by here to download the full length HD episodes.  The video itself is simply the same 3 minute intro clip at the beginning of episode 01.01 :: abstract television.

Here's the link to our new mariposaHD YouTube page and the link to the promo clip itself, which you can also see here:

Feel free to post this clip (using the links provided by YouTube) on your website or blog to help us spread the word.

We also wrote up a blog article on some of our critiques of the YouTube uploading process.

We'll see how this goes for a few days and then we'll probably post the same thing on MySpace Videos and Google Video.   Enjoy it!