Its http://www.vividas.com/ new high compression broadcast quality streaming format - expect to see it crop up all over - the player is ultra small and the quality is very good.
... many fans say you need to know nothing about the series. And so do people who haven't seen it. Like when they reviewed it on The BBC (27 minuttes in)
I have no idea about the Firefly story, but since everyone seems to think it's so amazing I might be pursuaded to go see it, especially with a little enticement like showing me the first few minutes of the movie.
Could you make it this weekend? The numbers count:)
Now. I run linux. So I can't watch this "teaser".
But it mentions Linux on their support page? Granted they say its in test phase, but apparently it works with wine under Debian, Red hat, Suse.
... River is supposed to be 17 and the actress is 24. Those who are most free with their money at the boxoffice are the young ones... besides, Whedon wishes to change society so better start with them before they get too brainwashed;)
More whining back and forth from both camps - it should be obvious by now that both sides know its against current law and one side don't care. And never will. Now if its just a minority it will pass - but if its the majority who feel this why the producers should wake the hell up, realise the world has changed and find new ways to make money.
Now you go online and the entire season will be there to be downloaded. Given time and enough fans the whole run of the show would be available online if HBO didn't do something about it. Why bother paying for HBO if you can get the one or more shows you want to watch online for free?
Yeah, why buy DVD's when you can download it for free, or for many programs watch them for free... oh wait - people do. Drat, another myth debunked.
Who says? Do they? Or do others? Most of these fanfilms suffer from totally patheticly inept acting. The graphics are have reached a point where they are usually cool, but the acting is terrible (someone should do a fan movie where R2D2 is the lead!) - and quite often the editing is also awful - it needs to be much tighter - but ooh, its granma/dad/the cute guy next door/the dog who is on and we can't cut here. YES YOU CAN.
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Its http://www.vividas.com/ new high compression broadcast quality streaming format - expect to see it crop up all over - the player is ultra small and the quality is very good.
I have a high speed dsl connection (1.5Mbps), and I have never seen streaming video work with anything like watchable quality
;).
:)
You would if you had allowed it to install the tiny plugin. They claim its broadcast quality, and they are not far wrong (unless you are on dial up
(though part of that is because I have a high resolution screen, and the embedded viewers won't let you resize it up to more than a postage stamp).
I chose the high res and it jumped to 1024x768 (which is my desktop size)
If I can't download something of reasonable quality and then watch it for real, then there's no point in wasting the bandwidth trying.
If you have the bandwith there is no point in not trying
They say if you run the Pc version of Firefox under Wine it works.
... many fans say you need to know nothing about the series. And so do people who haven't seen it. Like when they reviewed it on The BBC (27 minuttes in)
Of their demo files
There was an old format from Real called vivo but its probably something new from Vividas.
There is another add in the same format here. For beer
I'm postitive they didn't create a new file format just for this trailer.
They are selling their vieweing services to everybody, so perhaps they would make a new format for that?
That said, its probably windows media.
I have no idea about the Firefly story, but since everyone seems to think it's so amazing I might be pursuaded to go see it, especially with a little enticement like showing me the first few minutes of the movie.
:)
Could you make it this weekend? The numbers count
Now. I run linux. So I can't watch this "teaser".
But it mentions Linux on their support page? Granted they say its in test phase, but apparently it works with wine under Debian, Red hat, Suse.
Flash!? Damn, Google are really starting to do evil things.
Oh well, Flash is disabled here so that's another Google service out the window.
Oh well.
If only they would fix Groups though
... River is supposed to be 17 and the actress is 24. Those who are most free with their money at the boxoffice are the young ones... besides, Whedon wishes to change society so better start with them before they get too brainwashed ;)
Google Video (lower because of low usership currently).
Probably because it doesn't seem to work, I've tried it from time to time and every single item I've tried to watch has always been unavailable.
Gmail is generally also very sluggish, they can't handle the bandwith there either i guess.
... will be fired any moment now. Doesn't he know free speech helps terrorists!
More whining back and forth from both camps - it should be obvious by now that both sides know its against current law and one side don't care. And never will. Now if its just a minority it will pass - but if its the majority who feel this why the producers should wake the hell up, realise the world has changed and find new ways to make money.
This perhaps
Except tv shouldn't be property.
Apparently all those people downloading episodes of Rome seem to think it's worth something.
Yeah, all ten of them.
Now you go online and the entire season will be there to be downloaded. Given time and enough fans the whole run of the show would be available online if HBO didn't do something about it. Why bother paying for HBO if you can get the one or more shows you want to watch online for free?
... oh wait - people do. Drat, another myth debunked.
Yeah, why buy DVD's when you can download it for free, or for many programs watch them for free
I'm sure the executives at HBO are thinking the same thing about people who have the ability to pay for HBO yet won't.
;)
Well, if people won't pay its not worth paying for
I'm just asking *g*
I don't know how 'they' are - nor why they should dictate what I want.
No thanks. Those programs need to be here and run here thank you very much.
Who says? Do they? Or do others? Most of these fanfilms suffer from totally patheticly inept acting. The graphics are have reached a point where they are usually cool, but the acting is terrible (someone should do a fan movie where R2D2 is the lead!) - and quite often the editing is also awful - it needs to be much tighter - but ooh, its granma/dad/the cute guy next door/the dog who is on and we can't cut here. YES YOU CAN.
Stalin, Pol Pott, Mao, Kim Jong Il, Ho Chi Minh...some humane fuckers there.
Not relevant, they were dictators.
Socialism exploits the misery of the poor to enable tyrants.
No, that's capitalism.
To bad Whedon's a socialist. Weird.
Its the only way to get a humane society, otherwise its "fuck the neighbors let them die"
I have no problem providing stronger encryption communications to my customers
You may have a problem when they make it illegal and make you choose between 50 years in jail or not doing it.