An edging return to anime

[porsupah]

Here's a fifty second clip of the first episode of the 2018 season of Doctor Who, featuring Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor, here seen just newly regenerated, and still coming to terms with who she now is. ^_^ (It's been appearing and taken down a fair bit; here's a mirrorAs a side note, if you're wanting to view images at full size, I'm now tending

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[porsupah]

Aw! Still, I suppose that's the way it goes. =:P Frankly, I don't understand why they wouldn't preempt such leaks with the occasional official teaser - that clip would be a wonderfully tantalising glimpse to help keep fans eager for what's in store. Nobody sharing it has any designs on the Corporation's rights - everyone hopes the Doctor continues for many years more.

It's such a shame they never proceeded with their plans to offer online BBC subscriptions - it seems like such an obvious option. I suppose there's always iTunes - not cheap, given each season tends to be something like $25, but they've tended to at least be good about promptly releasing them online immediately after broadcast. That said, the last season I bought on iTunes US exhibited some nasty framerate conversion artifacts, with regular frame dropping - hopefully they've improved on that since. (Better, at least, than MLP, where out of 13 episodes, you could rely on about three of them to have wonky audio, either sounding like it's recorded down a long pipe, or simply falling out of sync at some point. It'd always be fixed within a few days, but you'd think broadcasters/producers would take greater pride in ensuring the best quality possible for paying customers)

Thankfully, the D500 has USB3, so transfers are decently fast. The catch with my configuration is that it's an XQD card (it has one XQD slot, and one SDHC; XQD has potential for higher speed, so I deliberately chose a card capable of about 385MB/s transfers, fast enough for the D500 to offload new shots as fast as they can be taken, even at 10fps - indeed, the D500 firmware limits the number of continuous shots to 200, to avoid killing the sensor or shutter prematurely =:) Still, it would be interesting to see how fast an actual reader could go, assuming it's connected over an appropriately fast interface - for me, that'd be Thunderbolt 2.