New format for Vito?

Youtube videos look closer to 4:3, and appear to be about 1.3:1 without the menu bar, about 1.25:1 with it, as seen here. They use lots of NTSC sources, as well as stuff generated for 4:3 monitors, that 5:4 doesn't make sense.

Another format which will be far more common soon is 9:16. NTIA policy is starting to push cable and satellite providers to migrate customers to digital converters with next year's drop dead for "Never Twice Same Color" vestigial sideband inverse amplitude modulation video in mind, and wide screen computer monitors also anticipate that "NTSC format squared" aspect ratio while starting to drop in price. (Mass media aren't covering it, but comix could try to educate consumers about the $40 coupon deal the Fed's are having from 1-1-08 to 3-09, using spectrum auction proceeds to assist over the air TV viewers in buying set top converters for those who haven't grabbed actual HDTV's. As a Presidential agency, DC poly-ticks have moved NTIA focus from Internet to competing with the Congress directed FCC in guiding the HDTV final transition. There have been management staff changes at NTIA not widely announced to the public.)

As to Vito's future, what's the intent of his existence?

Is it to get viewed widely, draw site traffic, teach people how with voter registration "scraping" there's less need for re-chipping some electronic voting machines or installing vote redistribution code as designed by Princeton in other brands to help friends of the RRR/GOP be installed to launch illegal wars for fun and profit while trampling civil and human rights, or something else?

The banner format is insidious as to displaying Vito to poll toplist viewers who might never visit Vito's site, but that requires getting Vito up in those lists beyond where it's practical for most of them (unless Vito has the budget to generate election wins in those polls, which is doable with enough financial and technical resources, by one person or a small group).

Is Vito destined to retain Flash, or might he try FLV or other formats? Does FLV (albeit a flash variant) have any aspect ratio standards, or only those of common users?

A dual format is possible, if two frames were used per strip, which could go over and under, or side by side. That's not enough to adapt from 4:3 up to 7.8:1, without going to 5 frames (which would be way too much detail for a 60 pixel high banner).

Is there a target demographic?

Age doesn't seem to be it, as Vito seems to get both young adults and middle agers.

Is there a need for mobile support, or non-PC home support?

Comcast is considering going from mass delivery to video dial tone ("on demand") for all services, and not just select ones, at least over "last mile" of HFC (hybrid fiber-coax) nets.

Verizon is trying that with FIOS in select markets, while AT&T is back in the cable and cel markets with new fiber to the curb, apparently after the expiration of a non-compete contract from ATTBI's sale to Comcast, and AT&T's acquisition of Cingular. How likely is it that multimedia convergence will result in net comix being displayed increasingly on HDTV rather than PC monitor systems?

Before this decade is out, I see most American homes receiving 20-50 gigabytes a day of data, with some consuming data at a rate of 50-100 terabytes a year. (It'd be really interesting to choke allowed data receipt based on a requirement that 10% be ASCII fiction and nonfiction, and 10% of that be news and information related to democratic participation. Your mindless drivel gets cut off if you spend over 99% of your resources being a typical clueless jerk rather than responsible voter and potential juror.)

FWIW, Comcast has run its coax last mile all the way up to 1 GHZ bandwidth in markets they're trying to seriously service, to make space for digital services, and it will be pulling analog CATV completely over the next year to allocate space for more digital channels. Under their present technologies, that takes a 6 MHz band (standard NTSC allocation) for each 6 standard TV signals, or every 2 HDTV channels. Part time use of a cable modem doesn't seem like a substantial resource demand, compared to people who might leave multiple HDTV data streams at 6 Mbps operating continuously. (Note though, that DOCSIS now extends to 38 Mbps incoming capacity, though few if any cable systems are telling data subscribers they are engineering to potentially deliver that. Older DOCSIS spec'd 3/1 Mbps, down/up.)

And, that increases the rural/urban divide, of both entertainment and access to information for business or as democratic citizens, as many regions still lack any low cost high speed information access other than poor functionality satellite systems. 3G CDMA service to mobile devices is often not built out in the same markets lacking DOCSIS or DSL.

How about a Vito-Monkey alliance? Vito can chair a Congressional panel no senior Congresscritter dared to touch, while Devo Monkey and the sheep compete to find new ways to bring wireless data to less served areas, like campy retro decor gay bath houses, or pastures. A new Devo spud collar can become a key to receiving high speed data in rural valley locations not served by utility plant nor terrestial microwave nets. A peer based sheep-net can link other rural areas where many-node terrestial relays mitigate the lack of commercial net deployment. Vito can move from inconsequential, to the hero of the largest minority voting bloc in the country, a 30% rural faction blown off as trivial by the existing DC power structure, which is shocked to find itself upended by Vito's overnight rise to the top power tiers of DC.