Just a little progress update.
This page or something close to it will be on the front page. The massive url listing style pages will be moved into different sections. While they are very popular with many, "in fact about 1800 unigue visitors a day visit them almost religiously"  several of the hardcore site fans have asked for a semi normal front page. The gaming news listing and hardware news will remain identicle in layout but will be moved to a different location.

You'll also notice the HD trailer section has been rebuilt. As you can see here.  Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian  After the movie begins to play everything except the video will fade out. A light dimming so to speak...  The lights will automaticly turn back on when the video is over. Or you can click anywhere outside the video to turn the lights back on... The video viewing area has also been rebuilt with what I think are better smoother and sexier colors and lines.

I've also been working on a new encoding style using the recently released adobe F4V file type. These 2 videos "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian and the Defiance HD Trailer" were both encoded using this new format with ffmpeg. When I finish fine tuning the ffmpeg encoding command all new videos on the site will be using this format. Its much higher quality and offers smaller file sizes at extremely low bitrates.
You may have also noticed the BiTTNews.com watermark in the movie. I hope its not too annoying, but several people and you know who you are... have attempted to steal them and rehost them as their own. This watermark will ensure bandwidth won't be wasted on the asshats out there looking to do such things. And yes the watermark is hardcoded into the video's, Its not a player effect...

When I get some free time I will be writing an ffmpeg How To and plan on posting it here and on the flowplayer site. There's also a streaming with nginx article in the works but again my time is currently limited so a release date is unknown. That will most likely be posted on the Flowplayer site exclusivly.

We're also looking for writers for game reviews, previews and news. If your interested in posting just drop an email too news [AT] bittmail {DOT}com  hardware and gadget news posters are welcome too...