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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trailer

Posted by Zonk on from the raise-your-hand-if-you-brought-your-towel dept.

Rakkis writes "A new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trailer is available on the frontpage of Amazon.com. From IMDb: "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy follows the travels of Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman), who is saved from the demolition of the Earth by his pal Ford Prefect (Mos Def). Ford is really an alien doing research for an updated edition of the universe's ultimate travel companion, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy opens April 29th.""

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  1. Re:Can't see it by pudding7 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Golly. Wonder why so many people still use that bug-ridden, security nightmare called IE.

  2. Again, you miss the point. by Moryath · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I don't really mind the exclusivity clause.

    What I have a problem with is the fact that, instead of providing it in a decent format and proper frame size so that anyone could view it, snag it to their desktop, they deliberately tried to make it un-downloadable (at least until somebody posts the file name, at which point I'm sure Slashdot will get another cease-and-desist letter for linking it that way).

    Putting the file out in crappy resolution, in a shitty encoding format, and deliberately making it hard to enjoy the trailer don't help their cause. Disney should know this by now. Hell, even Apple have finally fixed the problems quicktime used to have.

    The only way Disney could have done anything worse would have been to release it as a Realplayer file.