Edit: Click here for the HD version. Apparently Vimeo, only allows HD on their own sites…. which is fair enough I guess.
Edit 2: This video seems to have been taken down. I’m assuming this is a copyright issue (which I personally would find to be a discusting abuse of power by NBC), but I’m waiting to hear back from the person who put up the vid. If anybody else has source for a web based HD version, then please tell us in the comments.
Edit 3: It seems it’s Vimeo that’s to blame for this. They have very restrictive “guidelines” which as it turns out are not guidelines at all, they are “rules”. The phrase “manditory guidelines” exists for a reason, but I guess that didn’t sound friendly enough. I miss Stage 6.
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When this speech was first released the only place I could find a high quality version was on the various torrent trackers, which personally I find quite sad. A speech like this doesn’t deserve to have the YouTube EewhTube compression applied to it. It’s a bit late, but finally (thanks David) there’s a good quality version on the web. You would think that Obama’s people would have had this up all across the net minutes after the speech was given.
Side note: We’re not associated with Vimeo, but have been REALLY impressed by the site a lot lately. So expect to see a lot more Vimeo links if they keep pumping out quality like they have been. (Reminds me a lot of Stage 6 when it was still running)
Gerry
