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Grand Challenge Videos Posted

Posted by michael on from the i-for-one-welcome-our-new-etc.-etc. dept.

awtbfb writes "For those readers not fortunate enough to watch the satellite feed on the day of the race, videos of the Grand Challenge have been quietly posted on the race site. These include official AVI and DVD compilations and unedited clips in Quicktime MP4. The compilations also include some footage from the chase helicopters. Feel free to yell 'No! Turn right! Your other right!' as you watch these."

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  1. server suicide by Space · · Score: 2, Insightful

    um 1.4GB for the dvd quality version. Can anyone say server suicide and bandwidth bill from hell

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    1. Re:server suicide by LostCluster · · Score: 3, Insightful

      um 1.4GB for the dvd quality version. Can anyone say server suicide and bandwidth bill from hell

      Worst part is... we all have to pay for that bandwidth bill from hell among other things on the 15th of this month. :)

  2. 1.4GB and no BitTorrent? by Saeger · · Score: 3, Insightful
    We're about to slashdot a 1.4 GB DVD video.

    Instead of wasting my tax dollars on terabyte upon terabyte of bandwidth, they should have used BitTorrent to distribute these files; that's what it's designed for! Then, the money they save on bandwidth (by shifting it to my normally UNUSED and "unlimited" bandwidth) can be used more productively.

    And don't give me the line about bittorrent being "hard" to setup, because 1) it's not, and 2) the type of people downloading these videos are slightly more technically inclined than Joe Average anyway.

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    1. Re:1.4GB and no BitTorrent? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Well, then, why don't you post a torrent??

  3. Re:teams by LostCluster · · Score: 4, Insightful

    TechTV also did a good piece on The Screen Savers showing most of the more interesting wipeouts. That episode is schedule to rerun Monday at 8AM and 12 Noon ET.

  4. Re:Mirror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Since you are mirroring.. Why not BT it? right now your connection is bogged.. with BT it wouldn't be.

  5. Umm...I'm a little confused by kidgenius · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I see video names like this:
    Red Team 10:30 AM (Shot from the Start Line)
    Red Team 10:30 AM (Shot from the Finish Line

    How in the heck do you get shots from the finish line if no one finished??

  6. Is there anyway to make a bittorrent for webpages? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This would be real nice because then pages wouldn't be slashdot'd so much. The more people downloading it, the more availible it is.

    Maybe a Mozilla pluggin.