Leotard Syndicates, Supremacy, and Style

All righty, here's the January 2013 blog entry I semi-promised in my previous post.  Hey, it's only Jan 30, so no problem!

This has definitely been a very busy and diverse month.  And I happen to enjoy both busy-ness (in moderation) and diversity.  However, those things combined do make it tough to properly structure a blog summary.  But I've racked up some good points to discuss.

Lethal Leotards Syndicate

First off, let me just say that this is very exciting.  This month and last saw further development in the Lethal Leotards Syndicate storyline, and much credit is of course owed to VeVe and Orlandoe for their in-person realizations.  Credit is also most definitely due to our patron and inspiration who wrote the backstory for Interrogation Torture, Domestic Discord, and the original Lethal Leotards.

You may recall that we tried to kick off the Stockholm Syndrome Collection of video episodes last fall.  These were to be individual scenarios featuring femmes fatales in black leotards & tights brainwashing their various male prisoners.  We filmed one episode with Indra and Adrian, and one with VeVe, Athena, and Thrash.

However, I have to admit, the name "Stockholm Syndrome" just wasn't rubbing me the right way.  It sounded way too clinical, but also too vague.  The idea seemed reasonable, but the name just didn't give the sleek and femininely sadistic feel that should surround the ladies' organization.  Since we didn't have anything else immediately jumping off the drawing board, we set our doubts to the side and continued working.

Through the fall, I had been chasing after Orlandoe to get her to do a Stockholm Syndrome episode for us.  We finally got together to shoot in December, and by this time I wasn't gripping so hard to the original idea as I had been in the fall.

Anyway, as I may have mentioned in the December wrap-up post, we filmed twice with Orlandoe - once in the studio, where we were horribly interrupted by an inappropriately happy-jazzy piano from the theatre; and once in the apartment setting at night.  The first shoot laid the basis for Orlandoe's Orlandoe Supreme studio (more on that later), and the apartment shoot resulted in the birth of the Lethal Leotards Syndicate.

Throughout the apartment shoot, Orlandoe kept referring to "our syndicate" when she spoke to Jason.  I seem to recall that she said "syndicate" a lot that evening.  She was the only one who ever referred to the organization that way.  So, afterwards, as I was editing Orlandoe's footage and creating a title screen for her video, I got to chatting with VeVe and hitting the thesaurus to help officially name the organization (and rename the series).  We both really liked the title "Lethal Leotards" from VeVe's film by that name - maybe it's the alliteration? - and it turned out that "syndicate" looked to be the best match to complete the title.

Aside from the fact that "syndicate" just somehow sounds sinister, there is also the lovely definition from Merriam-Webster:


     a : a group of persons or concerns who combine to carry out a particular transaction or project
     b : cartel
     c : a loose association of racketeers in control of organized crime


How splendid!  So, Orlandoe's "Agent Orlandoe" video was the first production to bear the super-title of "Lethal Leotards Syndicate," and thus the black-clad femme fatale group was reborn with a tighter focus.

Lethal Leotards Duo

Orlandoe's performance and presence in her "Agent Orlandoe" inspired our Interrogation Torture patron to recommend a performance featuring VeVe and Orlandoe in tandem.  The ladies were pleased with the idea, and so they set their rivalry aside (or not?) in order to work together to bring down poor Thrash in January's new Lethal Leotards Duo.

Both VeVe and Orlandoe are talented when it comes to creepy and sadistic, and they did an excellent job in this piece.  As usual, the dialogue was entirely improvised.  Considering that the filming was nearly non-stop, the cast's timing was impressive.  Dialogue was well crafted, intentions were strong, and tableaux were spot-on.  My favorite moment, I have to say, was when the ladies decide they're bored with their victim, they pick him up and put him on the ground, and VeVe walks around to his face and strikes out suddenly, swiftly and -stop freeze!- presses her toes to his throat.

The lighting for this one is a bit brighter than I personally feel inclined to have made it.  I imagine it should be darker, perhaps to match the subject matter, but I also realize that "daily life" room lighting is quite right for the scenario.  Afterall, VeVe is only bringing her date home on any normal evening, to a perfectly normal apartment, to meet her friendly roommate.  It's all quite day-to-day.  Or so it seems.  But, you know, seeming vs being, etc, etc, etc.  I refer you to the Scottish play on the matter of seeming vs being.  But anyway, VeVe does dim the lights a tad bit once the ladies start getting down to business.

This piece turned out to be 36 minutes long, and the performers just ran with it.  They weren't aiming for any specific amount of time, but rather just as much as they needed.  VeVe, I will point out, does have an uncanny tendency to be able to write 30-minute long improvised scenes in the moment, complete with well-crafted dialogue (well, usually it's monologues).  She did take the lead here with speaking, but Orlandoe timed her own dialogue just right, getting excellent and amusing commentary of her own.

I look forward to more with with these two ladies in the Lethal Leotards Syndicate series.


Orlandoe Supreme

As I mentioned above, Orlandoe was able to open her own clips4sale studio in December, called Orlandoe Supreme.  I think it's a great name!  Another group effort on naming  (Orlandoe is a big fan of the theme of female supremacy).

I set up the studio and generated the first material from the filming we did in December.  That footage was filled with red, black, and white, so these became the color base for the studio.  Orlandoe brought some excellent fashion attire for the filming, and this set the tone for the store in general.  Frankly, I really like the aesthetic.

Following our Lethal Leotards Duo filming, we filmed more material for Orlandoe's studio, including a lovely foot worship scene with Orlandoe and Thrash and and arm wrestling match between the two.

More to come in the future for this, and I admit to really liking the colors, theme, and fashion choices here.  It's quite fun to work on building up this little budding studio.


The Return of the Thong Leotard

I was long-winded on the Lethal Leotard Syndicate talk, so now I have to cut to the chase in the Style section!

Also this month, VeVe brought out her thong leotard for a return performance on the wrestling mats.  She suited up with tan pantyhose and the black leotard for a competitive mixed match in a very warmly-lit studio.  The result: lovely imagery.  The match: VeVe vs Gino.

We filmed with match in the same room where we filmed "Pantyhose Duel 2012" with VeVe and Twiggy back in October.  It's a room with great lighting for earth tones and tights.

In addition to being one of our few - or perhaps the only? - competitive mixed wrestling match video featuring VeVe in leotard & tights, this match also had a new special rule set.  This was, essentially, as VeVe describes it, a competitive facesitting match.  The objective here, and the only way to score points, was with facesit pins.

Gino was an excellent choice of opponent for this match due to his stats being remarkably similar to VeVe's. She is 5'4" and 120 lbs and he is 5'3" and 125 lbs.  This close proximity in size helped keep this style of pinning match competitive and possible.

The choice to wear the pantyhose for the match was a last-minute one.  And I do believe it was a good one. Furthermore, VeVe had originally intended to wear the tights for the first round and then go without them for the second.  But the hose looked so good, especially under this room's lights, that we kept them throughout. Style points.

Wrap Up

Well, that turned out to be quite a long update!  Though I did get to talk a lot about what I intended to touch on, I wasn't able to re-cap everything from this month.  VeVe's and Orlandoe's various activities took up all of my focus for the month, though I got to work with other ladies alongside these two.

We filmed with attire-based pieces with VeVe and Amazon Annie as well as VeVe and Wrecks.  Annie and Wrecks are more rare to appear, given their tight schedules, but they are both certainly happy to take on fun filming opportunities.

I also appeared on film as well.  I was featured with VeVe in a new muscle worship video which involved quite a lot of shiny oil.  I also got a new opportunity to practice my punches in VeVe's second mixed belly punching video, aptly called "VeVe Takes Punches, Vol 2."  This second volume featured VeVe's belly taking some rather hard hits, particularly since I started getting my hips involved in the throw.  A rather intense 5 minutes that did generate quite a bit of bruising.


And that's the wrap-up for this blog entry.  I hope you enjoyed it.  Now onward to February, Mardi Gras, Valentine's Day..... and the return of Indra.  Stay tuned!

Almost there for January

I'm almost there with a new blog post for January 2013, but I've been swamped.  I just remembered my little blog now as I was swinging through everyone else's blogs (namely VeVe's Wrestling Blog and Orlandoe's OrlandoeSupreme.com).

It's almost 10 pm right now, and I'm about to edit a video we just filmed with VeVe and Wrecks this evening.  But I would like to mention that recent adventures have involved more Bondage Wrestling with VeVe and Keri Spectrum (the Hogtie Wrestling Race), competitive mixed wrestling with VeVe vs Gino and VeVe vs Hanz, the sadistic Lethal Leotards Duo with VeVe and Orlandoe ganging up on Thrash, Belly Punching with VeVe taking the hits, and the birth and development of Orlandoe's personal clips studio (Orlandoe Supreme).

More to come soon, but I need to get to this post-production work for this shoot.  I'll leave you with a nice little highlights reel from the match between VeVe and Hanz that took place earlier this month:

Super Busy December of Wrestling and Filming

Well, I must say that today - Christmas Day - I have enforced a strict "no work" policy for myself.  Sadly, I have already broken this policy by re-posting some video announcements just minutes ago.  I was pretty good all day, but with so much in the queue right now, I can't help but be antsy.

And what is the reason that I had to enforce this No Work policy today?

The reason is because I've been running on the video-making hamster wheel all month!

I blame myself.  But I also blame VeVe.  And I blame all the visitors who came into New York City one after the other after the other.  We set up a bunch of shoots with visitors such as Bad Bad Bettie, her protege Page, Toned Tommi, MariQueen, ShortFuse Mark, and hometown lady Orlandoe.  And, of course, VeVe.

I had a little surgery at the end of November, and that put me out of commission just as the first shoot of our Whirlwind of a month was coming upon us.  So, I left the camera in the capable hands of Hanz and VeVe, who traded off filming duties.

That first shoot involved VeVe, Hanz, and visitors Bad Bad Bettie and Page.  VeVe took on Page in a submission wrestling bout.  VeVe then took on Bettie in a rope-tie style wrestling match, since VeVe and Bettie had already had a straight-up wrestling match about a year ago for Robin.  Hanz also took on Bettie and Page, one after the other.  And everyone arm wrestled each other at some point.

I was sorry to have missed seeing Bettie again on her trip here and meeting Page, but...

The next thing I know, VeVe dropped a ton of video footage at my studio doorstep.  And the heavy December began...

Once December came on, I was back on my feet and working the camera again.

As I was preparing, processing, and exporting all of this footage, the calendar landed on our shoot day with Toned Tommi, who arrived in NYC in the very first days of December.  We had set Tommi up for a competitive match against male wrestler Adrian.  When the shoot day arrived, though, Adrian had a family emergency and had to postpone the match until the following day.

No sweat.

However, that following day also happened to be when we had scheduled to shoot with other visiting wrestler MariQueen, a newcomer from New England.  So, we just set the Tommi vs Adrian shoot to take place later in the day, after the filming with MariQueen.

MariQueen was scheduled for a match against Clobberetta bright and early at 10 am in the morning.  VeVe also wanted to do a 2-on-1 match of MariQueen + Clobberetta vs her.  And that was the plan.  But upon arriving at the studio, we had a last minute idea to call in Adrian to see if he'd be able to come and film with these two ladies as well.  Luckily, he responded to the last-minute call and hopped on the train to join us.

As we were filming Clobberetta vs MariQueen, Adrian arrived.  And it was great that he did, because following the ladies' match, Clobberetta had to leave.  So, no 2-on-1 match as VeVe wanted.  But MariQueen was feeling really good and energized, so we decided to match her up with Adrian for a competitive mixed match.  And after that match, MQ was still raring to go - and VeVe was getting antsy from sitting and watching - so we gave MariQueen yet another match within that 1-hour time block in that studio.  So, after fighting Adrian, MariQueen then went on to wrestle VeVe.

That was a lot of wrestling for MariQueen, and I was impressed with not only her stamina and tenacity, but also with her highly professional and pleasant attitude.

Following this shoot, we had a bit of downtime before we had to head back to the studio again that day to film with Toned Tommi, Adrian, and Hanz.

We filmed a competitive match of Toned Tommi vs Adrian, which Tommi totally rocked.  She had a lot of fun with this match, kicking up some great taunting and trash talking as she spun circles around her opponent.  We then filmed a competitive match of Tommi against Hanz for Hanz's video store.  And Tommi took on Adrian and then Hanz in arm wrestling matches.  It was a great shoot, and everyone was in really good spirits.  Long shoot day!

Ok, speaking of long, this entry is getting long.  But at that point in time, so was my work queue.  And it was only single-digits December.  Oh boy.

Two days after that shoot day, we had a shoot with Orlandoe and Jason.  I call this "Orlandoe + Jason, Take #1."  The studio was lovely, the colors of Orlandoe's attire were splendid, the to-do list was doable.  And it was all going well until... this piano cut in.  I was right there in the middle of filming a moody spy episode for the Lethal Leotards series (more info on that later), and then in comes a jazzy piano from the blackbox theatre next door.  I thought I would jump out the window.

So, from that shoot, we got a lot of footage to start up Orlandoe's personal clips4sale store, called Orlandoe Supreme.  However, I wasn't satisfied with the femme fatale footage that I was going after.  So, I pursued Orlandoe and Jason for the following week, trying to get their schedules to line up for a re-shoot.

And I'm glad I did.  Because we did meet for a reshoot (Orlandoe + Jason, Take #2), but I changed the location of the shoot and I slightly changed the premise.  And I also made some drastic changes to the lighting.  The result was a very lovely piece called "Agent Orlandoe: Lethal Leotards Syndicate" - a spy domination piece - you know, jump you in your own home, I've been following you, and all the related loveliness.  And, of course, leotard and tights for the femme fatale.

Oh goodness, this is so long.  I will cut to the quick!

As all of this was going on, a fan suggested and sponsored a Bondage Wrestling rematch between VeVe and Keri Spectrum.  We were able to contact Keri and set up the shoot.  And this new bondage wrestling shoot took place, chronologically, between Orlandoe+Jason #1 and Orlandoe+Jason #2.  A splendid shoot-night that generated "Bondage Wrestling REMATCH: VeVe vs Keri", which proved to be very popular and held the #1 spot in the overall Bondage category on clips4sale for a week at least.  We also filmed a second bondage + wrestling video with Keri that evening ("Bondage Wrestling Race").  Even though I have that 2nd video processed and complete, I cannot even begin to think about preparing it for the store right now!  Talk to me in 2013.  ;)

What else?  Whew, I'm exhausted.

Oh yes.  So, less than a week after the filming with Keri, ShortFuse Mark came into town, and VeVe snagged him for a custom video.  VeVe and Mark did a secret agent themed video which I've dubbed Squeezing Seduction.  It's not a leotard & tights video; in this one, VeVe is a leather mini-skirted spy-assassin.  They also had a little belly punching wrestling match, and Mark proved to be pretty bad at punching... so, he ended up getting punched quite a lot.  A lot.  And, of course, VeVe and Mark arm wrestled as well.

Then moving closer into Christmas week, we made a nice little push to get out some holiday-themed material.  This, however, meant that the regular materials in the queue got put on hold.  But what resulted was VeVe performing Holiday Flexing (see excerpt on youtube), Holiday Balloon Squeeze-Popping (see excerpt on youtube), and Holiday green+red duct tape bondage escaping.  All this in addition to a ton of balloon-related videos and a very lovely duct tape mummification escape attempt.

And this brings me to here and now: Christmas Day at 10:40 pm.  I've been working the New-Release-O-Meter really hard this month, so I am trying to give everything some breathing room.

But there you have it, my update for December.  All of December.  I think.  Enjoy, and Happy Holidays to all!

Concussion by VeVe's Fast Hands

As some of you know, last week here in New York City, we faced the wrath of Hurricane Sandy, the most devastating hurricane to hit our city in.... its history?

Our subways were shut down for days as they were flooded, later to be effortfully pumped and restored.  Despite the water damage and power outages, many of us in Brooklyn were not directly affected.  However, we were confined to our borough.

Since VeVe, the studio, and I were all in Brooklyn, we took a moment to play some hardball.  So, on last Wednesday evening, we met in the studio for some sparring.  We engaged in a light 20-minute technical submission grappling bout before pulling out the MMA gloves and getting to our feet.

We had a great little rumble that evening, working our Muay Thai, wrestling, and ground & pound games against each other for the first time.  We threw lighter punches at the face, but didn't hold back too much on body blows.  Despite the attempts at "lighter" face strikes, lips were smashed and teeth chipped slightly.  More specifically, VeVe walked away with a bruised lip and I somehow increased the size of the chip in one of my teeth.

So, when we met again the next evening, I opted for a mouth guard.

And I'm glad I did....

On Thursday, we racked up again for another bout.  This time, though, it seemed like there was a bit more blood hunger in the air.

We warmed up once more with light grappling, and then moved to don our gloves.  I briefly mentioned setting up the video camera on a tripod, but I dismissed the idea for fear of the camera falling over.

But maybe I should have taken the risk... and just secured the camera very tightly.  But no shoulda, woulda, coulda...

The fight was long and glorious and especially fierce.  And at times, tempers flared.  Ok, well, to be honest, VeVe's temper flared much more often than mine.

We worked kick boxing from the feet, with me looking to take the match to the ground as soon as possible. I had an undeniable reach advantage, which worked in my favor for striking both on the feet and on the ground.  On the feet, my kicks could keep her at bay, and when I was on top of guard, I could easily rain down blows while staying out of range of upward retaliation.

My takedowns were great, considering the confined space, and my endurance held well even after VeVe threw sneaky punches to my abdomen whenever she could (she really seems to like doing that!).  But after 30 minutes of fighting, fate took things into its own hands....

... when it took my face into VeVe's hand.

Well, more specifically, when it took my jaw into her fist.

While on the feet, I decided to change up my game a bit, and I stepped in with a body punch.  At the same moment, VeVe was launching a right hand punch my way.  Her right hand connected with my jaw while I was moving forward, and my head was rocked back, a la whiplash.  The pain in my neck was pretty jarring, and I saw a few bright circular shapes in my left eye.

I pulled back, cursing my over eagerness, and waiting for the shock to subside.  It wasn't a knockout blow, but I felt at that moment a glimpse of a punch-to-jaw knockout.  I walked the mat area, calmed myself, checked my neck.... and continued!  And I wasn't happy.

After a few more exchanges both on the feet and on the ground, I had to take a break as wavy lines started to appear in the corner of my left eye.  They were increasing in my vision, from the top far corner of my eye. I wrote it off to dehydration, since we'd been sparring and sweating for quite a while without stopping for water.

I took a short break, took some water, checked my pupils in the mirror, and the wavy lines subsided.  And, after a 10 minute rest, we went back for yet another round.

By the end of the evening, my lips were a mess and I had a tad bit of headache.  And VeVe?  She was happy as a clam!  And even though her lips were pretty battered as well, she loved the entire sweaty battle.
...

On later examination and inspection, I believe I suffered a mild concussion as my head jerked back from the jaw punch.  It was pretty minor, I should be fine after a week's rest, and the neck took more punishment than the brain, but there you have it:  concussion by VeVe's fast hands.

And I am kicking myself for not setting up that candid camera!

Hurricane Update from Us in NYC

Hi Everyone,

We here at the Doom Maidens studio have weather the storm all right!  Our videography studio is located inland in Brooklyn, so the electronics department didn't suffer any flooding.  Our Brooklyn space never even lost power at any point.

The ladies are all fine and well, and I think most of our guys are as well; though we have yet to hear from Hanz, I'm sure he's all right.

There was massive flooding in Manhattan, and our subways were all shutdown yesterday.  They are still shutdown today, and 7 tunnels have been flooded.  I expect our Manhattan studio is closed today, but Brooklyn is of course still open.

There was a massive fire in the borough of Queens last night, but as far as I can tell, no one from our team was affected.

Right now, there is some rain off and on, and some mild-to-moderate winds.  Things are generally calm, and the city is attempting recovery.  The sky is cloudy but bright now at 9 am Eastern time.

Halloween is tomorrow, and Manhattan had hopes of having its usual huge parade and an enormous after-party at Webster Hall in the East Village.  Here's hoping that will be able to go on.

In the meanwhile, it seems like VeVe may come by the studio to make some video clips today.  Maybe other ladies as well....?  Let's find out.

Recent Bondage Wrestling this Season

Well, hello again!  October is finally now upon us, and here I am pushing to make a new blog entry.

It has been a busy season (when hasn't it?), and there is such a variety of things going on, that it is overwhelming to even begin writing about them.  Why?  Because A) I will inevitably leave something out, which I don't want, and B) I will probably end up writing way too much.

But since I am in a hot and stuffy room right now, maybe that will force me to keep it as short as possible.  But then again, I do always try to keep it as short as possible.

Well, here goes.  To keep things simple, I will just address the bondage wrestling work.

More Bondage Wrestling with VeVe

Like, everyone's doing it.  At least this season!  The most recent victim was your humble narrator.  Just this past Monday evening (3 days ago), I made my return to the small Big Screen in a custom request video which is titled both "Bondage Grudge Match" and "Hogtie Abuse."  Both titles are accurate sum-ups.

Hanz manned the camera for me on this one, and he did a great job.  I was able to add a bit more mass to my body since my last video in July - VeVe's Mixed Wrestling Challenge - where I seemed to be headed back to leanness (not quite June 2011's "Interrogation Torture" or "Indra vs Diablo: Bondage Wrestling," where I was 10 lbs lighter).  So, I was pleased with that.

Anyway, enough talk of beef and back to the bondage wrestling.

This video started with some good, competitive bondage wrestling.  Both VeVe and I have come quite a ways in terms of understanding rope use in wrestling, since our first bondage wrestling video together in Nov 2010.  For example, folding the rope in half and using loops is certainly much better than attempting to tie knots during the initial phases of a battle.

It actually took me quite a while during Monday's match before it occurred to me to start working for knots. Loops, snares, and lassos are really just so much better.  Knots are more of a finishing touch type thing.

Look Ma, no hands!

But as fate would have it, I didn't end up tying any lasting knots that evening anyway.  No, instead they were tied upon me instead.

By special request, VeVe threw me into a hogtie, taking a very specific route about it - she had to work to make the ties in a specially requested order.  Starting with a particularly painful double hammer lock tie with my arms behind my back.  She got only one arm behind my back first, and I fought single-armed for quite a while.  As a matter of fact, I continued to fight for the entire time.  Single arm, no arms, bound legs, you name it!  I will admit, I did have to quit once the ball gag went on.  I hate those.

It was a long video, and my shoulders got put to the test in that hammer lock tie.  Ouch.  Because once I was fully hogtied, there was still a lot more to go.  Teasing, taunting, ha ha ha.  I got to stomach the whole nine yards of VeVe's delighted meanness as a result of getting caught.  Gah!

Orlandoe Gets Her Share of Hogties

A week or so previous to the above mentioned bondage match, VeVe faced off against her ol' rival Orlandoe in an Escape & Attack challenge.  I talked a little bit about this in my Bondage Wrestling Blog earlier this morning, so I won't do too much rehashing.

Basically this - after VeVe first attempted the Escape & Attack challenge with Jason, we decided to keep working in that specific sub-genre of the Bondage Wrestling super-genre.  Plus, there just needed to be an F v F version of this!  Orlandoe was an absolutely excellent candidate, for several reasons: wrestling and rope skill, plus pre-existing affront to VeVe!

At the risk of being redundant, I will say that VeVe proved to be the savvier escape artist.  And Orlandoe, well, she ended up tied into a rather unhappy ball.  The title of that video?  It all became clear with the match result: VeVe's Vengeance!  Bondage Wrestling.

Oh goodness, I am seriously running out of time here.  Quick summary, then:

Previous bondage work in September included a very artistic-looking "Ballet Shoe Bondage" video with Indra and VeVe playing rival ballerinas.  And in a related, but not specifically bondage wrestling vein, we had the kick off of our new Stockholm Syndrome series of mixed wrestling domination videos.  So far, VeVe, Indra, and Athena have appeared in this video set, along with Adrian and Thrash.

We also filmed competitive matches with Clobberetta and newcomer Sircee.  And to make a nice, ancient Grecian theme (somewhat!), we filmed a competitive match between Athena and Sircee.

More to come!  Back to the grind!

Post about Download File Types. WMV vs MP4

I may write more about this in the future.  But for now, let me repost something I recently sent up to our yahoogroup regarding file types for downloadable video, which has prompted me to make this post.

After researching and trying and erroring, I am still not sure if I should abandon WMV and produce only MP4.  I'm right now delivering in both formats simultaneously, based on what I think people prefer.  I would like to reveal that MOST people we deal with are opting for WMVs, with a much smaller minority selecting MP4s.  The MP4 people are out there, I can see, but, again, they are a much smaller percentage of users.

I will also reveal that I can get a slightly higher bit rate into an MP4 than I can into a WMV of the same file size.  Basically, if I aim to make a file 200 MB in size, I can squeeze a tad higher bit rate into the MP4 version without going over the 200 mark, as I have discovered.  It could be a difference of, say, 3 mbps vs 3.45 mbps, just as a random example that I am making up off the top of my head.

But the playback is nearly identical.  If I scrutinize, I might be able to pick out playback differences.  And I would be interested in doing that at some point when I have time.  And I'd like to report back about it.

I do know that a small minority of Mac users should choose MP4 over WMV (as we produce them post-HD-upgrade) because of issues with the sound encoding.  But most users, especially tech savvy users, on either a Mac or PC, using the VideoLAN player, report no preference between the two file types.

Ok, now to the writing that inspired the above writing:

From my yahoogroup post:
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This is the less exciting tech end, but just a reminder....

I am about to close the poll in our Doom Maidens yahoogroup regarding the file type people prefer for downloadable videos.  So far, there haven't been too many votes one way or another, but WMVs are leading the pack.

Remember to vote in that poll, since it closes this week:

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And I will say, people do seem to prefer WMVs when given the choice in our MixedWrestlingNYC clips4sale store.  Some of you may have noticed that recent videos are being released in both WMV and MP4.  Our dear friend Hanz Vanderkill is kind enough to point out that MP4s are playable on mobile devices, just a side note.  But WMVs (Windows Media Video) are apparently the preferred choice of Windows / PC users.  But Mac users have enjoyed them as well, courtesy of the VideoLAN player.

Anyway, new videos in the DoomMaidens.com store are also coming as both WMVs and MP4.  Customers will get both files, with the option to download either/or, as they prefer.  If a video has a MP4 version as well as the default WMV version, it will be noted on the product page.

Ok, enough from me for now.  Go vote before it closes.

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