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Finding High Quality Videos from E3?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the your-bleeding-edge-game-fix dept.

Alec T asks: "Seeing how E3 is fast approaching, I was wondering where Slashdot readers go for their E3 fix? Gamespot, IGN and 1UP all provide free low quality streams and downloads, however we are reduced to having to pay to access high quality trailers and press conference screenings. Why is this? Is there a site out there which caters to our high definition needs? If bandwidth is such a concern, maybe BitTorrent would be the best distribution method, particularly for the console press conferences?"

55 comments

  1. Why... by ZiakII · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Gamespot, IGN and 1UP all provide free low quality streams and downloads, however we are reduced to having to pay to access high quality trailers and press conference screenings. Why is this?

    Profit, is the sole reason.

    1. Re:Why... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Gamespot, IGN and 1UP all provide free low quality streams and downloads, however we are reduced to having to pay to access high quality trailers and press conference screenings. Why is this?

      Profit, is the sole reason.

      It's absolutely shocking that a company would want to make money this underhanded way.

    2. Re:Why... by heinousjay · · Score: 1

      Only on Slashdot is it considered insight to realize a company wants to make a profit. I would think that would be fairly obvious.

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  2. watch by gerbalblaste · · Score: 1

    If you have it G8 will have extensive coverage of e3

    1. Re:watch by Neeex · · Score: 1

      Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, USA and Russia?

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    2. Re:watch by gerbalblaste · · Score: 1

      I'm wrong, i meant G4 tech tv. sry :/ can't type

  3. And they cant even do it properly by Ekuryua · · Score: 1

    And even the "HQ" videos are barely done with crappy camcorders... If they could use some proper HD cams to do their stuff it'd sure be more motivating.

    1. Re:And they cant even do it properly by DDLKermit007 · · Score: 1

      Dunno what the fuss is about high resolution vids (not like HD means jack shit anyways). It's eaisier to just go like I do every year :-P

    2. Re:And they cant even do it properly by eno2001 · · Score: 1

      Hear hear!! (or however that's spelled) Why on earth anyone would want videos from a convention, let alone HD videos is beyond me. It's one thing if you're a shut-in and CAN'T get out. It's another if your a pasty little gamer geek who is afraid of real people and won't get out. If that's the case then low fi is all you're worth. And if the company wants to rip you off by making you pay for content that is pointless (like magazines) then that's your own damn fault folks. HD itself is cool if you've got a monitor, but that last thing to be watching on it is conventions. It's far better to watch IMAX transfers or films with great cinematography like Baraka. I've got a 1080p LCD montior and I just watched some HD content over the weekend for the first time. It's subtly better than 720p or standard DVDs. But when you're watching crap recordings from a convention, you may as well be watching a VHS of local access cable on a 480i (standard old NTSC).

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    3. Re:And they cant even do it properly by minuszero · · Score: 1
      "Hear hear!! (or however that's spelled)"

      's correct. :)
      http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/178100.html
  4. Check these out. by Grey+Ninja · · Score: 4, Informative

    I usually end up resorting to bittorrent for the console press conferences, as you mentioned. I find that there's always SOME smaller news site that has a bittorrent link for those.

    However, for actual gameplay footage, I usually find myself coming to these:
    http://www.advancedmn.com/ (WMV... uggh)
    http://www.gametrailers.com/ (WMV and QT. Better)

    So yeah, I usually come to gametrailers for my E3 fix. Posting is prompt, and quality is usually good.

  5. Yikes by The-Bus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, my Xbox 360 said that it's the only place to turn of exciting E3 footage. Although something tells me I won't find any Metal Gear Solid information on it...

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  6. Microsoft really nailled it this time by JFMulder · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apparently, all the 360 trailers released during E3 will be downloadable on your 360. Now that's great marketting. Plus, some of the E3 demos will actually be downloadable :) I can't wait for next week.

    1. Re:Microsoft really nailled it this time by DarkJC · · Score: 1

      How is that great marketing? Great marketing to people who already have the system? Who is going to buy a 360 just to watch E3 trailers?

    2. Re:Microsoft really nailled it this time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How stupid are you? Game trailers are for marketing... wait for it... the GAMES, not the console. People who have 360's can easily find the trailers, download them, and watch them in full HD on their widescreen TV's. This is nothing new, they've been doing it for quite some time, and it's a great idea.

    3. Re:Microsoft really nailled it this time by KDR_11k · · Score: 1

      At a later date I'd agree with you but currently the big problem of the XC is that it lacks the games to attract buyers in first place. The word needs to reach primarily those who don't own the console yet.

      Also I doubt there will be much more available on the XC service that couldn't have been offered on e.g. the PC, the bigger issue will be that E3 demos are usually very incomplete so publishers won't want to release them to the public at large, only to the writers who are smart enough to realize that preview builds aren't final builds.

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    4. Re:Microsoft really nailled it this time by JFMulder · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Getting the demos and files directly (and in their intended format, not some shaky cam)to the consumer in an easy way is good publicity for the games. Especially the demos, which you traditionally had to buy a magazine in order to get. Free demos for 360s owners is a great thing. People can buy into the hype even earlier because they get early access to the games that are on the showfloor. This can only be good for the game makers and Microsoft. I will not accept less from Sony and Nintendo next year.

    5. Re:Microsoft really nailled it this time by Jarlsberg · · Score: 1

      It really is brilliant. I read the reviews for the new Tomb Raider game a few days ago and wanted to check it out. It was right there in Xbox Marketplace, so I downloaded it and played it an hour or so later (the download speed is not that great, though, since I could easily have downloaded it in ten minutes if MS could download at my maximum connection speed).

      Of course, we've had the ability to do this on the PC (and even on really old computers, like the C64, prior to that) for many, many years, but it's good to see downloading coming to the consoles never the less.

    6. Re:Microsoft really nailled it this time by animejoe · · Score: 1

      Where in the heck did we get "XC"? "XC" = Xbox Console, or Xbox 360 Console? Man, there are enough acronyms and abbreviations floating around out there, do we need to coin new ones that don't make much sense? How hard is it to just use the ones that are already out there or stick to the product's full name? That said, I'd agree that MS needs to reach those who don't own the console. But really, if you make an effort to keep your current customers happy, they'll go spread the word elsewhere.

    7. Re:Microsoft really nailled it this time by KDR_11k · · Score: 1

      XCircle (also C comes after B). I'm annoyed that the name requires an abbreviation that's not much shorter than the full name and I think MS did that on purpose so the name is written everywhere. XC is much shorter to write or say.

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    8. Re:Microsoft really nailled it this time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Good for 360 owners I guess. I still have no desire to purchase one, and maybe seeing one of these fancy trailers would entice me.

      Oh well.

  7. Finid? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I've never finided anything in my entire life, sorry.

    1. Re:Finid? by YU+Nicks+NE+Way · · Score: 1

      The correct spelling is founid, not finided. Didn't yu lern nothing back in elemtury skewl?

  8. FileShack will have HD videos by Neeex · · Score: 5, Informative
    FileShack, part of Shacknews are going to be filming the demos/trailers/videos with their HD camera, as they did last year.

    They have a queue-based download system that's free, although queues will probably be pretty long during E3. I do believe, however, that the first month's subscription, allowing you to skip queues, costs $1.

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    1. Re:FileShack will have HD videos by TroZ · · Score: 3, Informative

      Actually, they will have 2 HD cameras there this year.
      http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?comments=42006
      http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=12092759

      Their pre-E3 coverage page is already up:
      http://www.shacknews.com/extras/e3_2006/

    2. Re:FileShack will have HD videos by code-e255 · · Score: 1

      But will they be free, or will one have to pay for that Fileshack service to be able to get the high-def videos?

  9. Finiding High Quality Videos? by techmuse · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm a little bit rusty on my finiding. Can someone explain how to finid properly? I've checked all the usual sources, and even read the manual, but there was simply no good information on how to finid, finidation, finidoscopies, or finid finales.

    1. Re: Finiding High Quality Videos? by datafr0g · · Score: 1

      Perhaps they need to finid a spell checker! :-)

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    2. Re: Finiding High Quality Videos? by luder · · Score: 1

      Obviously, you read the wrong manual... Check item 0809229005. Quality work, written by a top investigator!

    3. Re: Finiding High Quality Videos? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Actually the original title was "Where to find high quality videos from E3?" Cliff must have changed the title in initial the submission and made a natural mistake. No big deal. At least his revised heading sounds better than my original.

  10. Xbox 360 by SnprBoB86 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Xbox 360 related coverage will be available here on Microsoft's Xbox site. I also believe that you will be able to download demos and videos via Xbox Live Marketplace directly from your 360.

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  11. Possible live E3 bloggings? by ProppaT · · Score: 1

    I don't know if they're doing it this year, but www.gamesarefun.com has done live blogging of major game press conferences in the past. They're a smaller site, but they're the first of the to cover a lot of these real time. Pretty nice for those of us who want to keep up on the news as it's happening, especially with big press conferences for the Wii and PS3 happening this year! If anyone knows of other sites doing this kind of live updates, spread the news!

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    1. Re:Possible live E3 bloggings? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Various fan/websites do this every year. For Nintendo alone, I know that DS-x2.com (DS only), wii.ds-x2.com (Wii-only), DS-gamer.nl (Dutch, DS-only), g-freaks.de (German, everything) and many more are planning to do updating throughout the press conference tomorrow.

  12. If you have cable... by Cyno01 · · Score: 2, Informative

    G4 will be covering E3 (you sunk my battleship!) live the whole week.

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  13. Virtual E3 by miyako · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm at a loss as to why someone or some group of large publishers hasn't set up some sort of virtual E3. The XBOX360's allowing users to download videos and demos is a huge step toward this- but it only really works for people who have a 360.
    I can imagine some sort of Virtual E3- have some live streaming video of the various events, virtual booths where you can view game demos, maybe read interviews with developers and get high resolution screenshots. I think a lot of people would pay to have access to something like that as well. I can't really imagine a better situation. Millions of gamers who would sell their mothers to go to E3 pay publishers for the priviledge of watching a few hours of advertisements.
    The only reason I can think why they might not do this is that to the game journalists, E3 is like christmas. I would imagine magazine and web subscriptions probably go up considerably around E3, and as E3 is really a press event, it might not do well to piss off the press by stealing their subscribers.

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  14. Gaming Horizon by Asriel86 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Gaming Horizon has partnered with DivX for E3 video coverage. They're offering everything for free, including high quality trailers and such. Everything's nicely integrated with the divx web player, or you can just download.

    1. Re:Gaming Horizon by bpd1069 · · Score: 1

      Game, Set, Match.

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    2. Re:Gaming Horizon by wongn · · Score: 1

      Gaming Horizons seems to sideline all their stuff to http://www.e3updates.com/

  15. I don't have it, you insensitive clod! by tepples · · Score: 1

    If you have it [G4] will have extensive coverage of e3

    Likewise, if you have it Gamespot, IGN and 1UP will have extensive coverage of e3

    But then we're back to the OP's problem. Where I live, G4 is not included with basic cable.

    1. Re:I don't have it, you insensitive clod! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      But then we're back to the OP's problem. Where I live, G4 is not included with basic cable.

      You lucky bastard

  16. Sin Episodes ... by Hektor_Troy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Am I the only one hoping to get high quality videos of these two booth babes going at it? *drools*

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    1. Re:Sin Episodes ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I think I speak for all the straight males who clicked that link when I say... "Not anymore!"

  17. Fight for torrents. GS ppl post here. by bunbuntheminilop · · Score: 1
    Its funny that this was brought up as I had just posted a message on the Gamespot forums about wanting torrents.

    I found a thread asking for them, and here is the address. If you want torrents at Gamespot, then post here!

    http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php ?topic_id=24302792

  18. Is DVD quality good enough? by in5ane · · Score: 1

    From:

    http://www.e3insider.com/e3tv/
    "ETV - DVD-Quality Versions of E3Insider's Videos, Including the Press Events"

    It sounds really neat actually, especially the subscription thing, where I'm hoping you can just leave it running grabbing videos automatically.

    1. Re:Is DVD quality good enough? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      http://www.e3insider.com/e3tv/

      Did you get it to work ? It bombed out during the install for me.

  19. Insider by straterpatrick · · Score: 1

    I got IGN's insider access for E3 last year and have not been disappointed. It only cost 19.99 for a whole year and they have a lot of very high-res (Some HD) videos.

    I would recommend it.

  20. Hmm.. by LordVader717 · · Score: 1

    I may regret this, as the slashdot hoards might crash the servers, so nobody can enjoy it, but at Nintendo's E3 site, they say that they'll have live coverage of the press conference.

  21. Finding High Quality Videos from E3? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A simple answer. Go find the nearest bridge or cliff, take your entire fucktarded family, and have everyone including yourself jump off to take your entire god damned lineage out of the fucking gene pool.

    GO AHEAD! FUCKING FLAME AWAY 0R WASTE YOUR GOD-DAMNED MOD POINTS FUCKTARDED SHITD0T SHEEPLE!

    1. Re:Finding High Quality Videos from E3? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Ah, I see that you must be an IGN staff writer!

  22. gametrailers.com = the way to go by abandonment · · Score: 1

    GameTrailers is the only place worth going for game videos. no 320x240 crappy encoding, they have all of the good videos, and if they don't have a specific video, they have a large community that can post any videos into their 'gametrailers tv' area...

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  23. Here are E3 Trailers in HD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hello,
    if xou search for E3 Trailers in High Res you can find this on: http://vitivi.tv/

  24. Wack'licious!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    sorry

  25. Fileplanet by zerosix · · Score: 1
    Forgive me if this has already been mentioned, but as far as trailers go, fileplanet has added an entire section just for E3. I have a subscription, but it seems in general the waiting aspect isn't too bad either...

    http://www.fileplanet.com/trailers/

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  26. Revo... err "Wii" news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    here:
    http://press.nintendo.com/
    User: media
    Pass: E32006