The video quality was so poor it's hard to tell whether it's a boy or a girl. It appears to be a 200p video upscaled to 360-720p. But they didn't upsale the width to the proper proportions when they upscaled the height. I can't understand why people waste our bandwidth, load times, resources, sometimes consuming our monthly bandwidth caps by unnecessarily upscaling small media files to something much larger. Our monitors, TV, video chips, cards, & computers will automatically upscale small video to fit our screen if we want it to.
Maybe some people given enough tech & buttons to push with, they'll push them without a clue of what they're really doing.
By converting a 360p video to 720p all they really doing is displaying the same pixel twice in the width, & twice in the height - essentially making the file size 4 times larger than it needs to be. It does not improve the quality of the original video at all just by converting it to something bigger. it's still the same original video information no matter how much larger you make it. Plus upscaling usually makes it worse if it's full motion video or complex audio because the scaling up & compression can't keep up good enough to recode the media properly.
Of course, some big-name web pages are designed just as poorly, consuming up to 1/4gb just to load their front page. The designers of these pages are on quad core machines with 60gb of RAM on the fastest internet connections that money could buy. So they don't see a problem, thinking everybody has a machine & connection like theirs or should - but over 90% of their users do not.
Some might say that we all should just buy more powerful computers every year to keep up, & spend a fortune on faster broadband.
But isn't that like saying we should all buy a new Porsche every year or 2 if we want to navigate the roads properly & keep up? Since I don't see a new Porsche on the road every day, that doesn't seem reasonable.
We can get good quality media & pages, if people would just try to design their pages, codes, scripts, & media efficiently. A few years ago, the web, media, software, & OS's decided to throw efficiency out the window. Most don't even attempt to try, as long as they can keep convincing people to buy bigger & faster every year. Seriously, do we really need to buy a new phone & computer every year or 2 just because the salesmen & sites said so? I don't think so.
Netfix online streaming service is doing very well. It's the most popular pay-streaming service in the world. How could this be? They have a limited selection of stuff that we've already seen many times before, or crap, & only a small handful of anything new. They're successful because their stuff works on almost any machine, even on slow connections (adjust your Netflix account settings if it doesn't), & it's dirt cheap. It's popular because it's all very efficient so works well for almost everybody.
Anywho, I tried to make some captures of the video. Not much quality to work with in the video, but I tried anyway. Although not very sissy-frilly, It's a nice outfit. The kid seems to be dancing to a fast paced pop tune rather than the included music. He even seems to lip sync a few of the words occasionally. I think if it was a real girl that age, she wouldn't shake her booty so much. Boys tend to do that more when imitating girls - exaggerating girly moves. He does a really nice job at it though.
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