I'd like some HD material pleeease :)

[dokworm]

I have just retired from my city job, and moved out to the country. (Moving is enough to make you wanna go digital...)

And setting up the HT again, came to a horrible realisation. We get NO HD broadcasts out here in the sticks...nuffin. No HD satellite available in this country either.

I've downloaded all the WMV and DVICO clips, and own a few HD DVD titles (T2 coral reef etc), but was wondering if any kindly people in the land of the HD transmissions would have any really cool recorded HDTV that would be good for demos.
Anything would be luvverly, even old sports games...

I can swap for Aussie beer, or some of my old out of print 3D movies or I dunno, anything.
If anyone has some stuff they could stick onto DVDR please let me know, it would be much appreciated.

Cheers

-Worm

[flyingvee]

jeez, I don't have an hd recorder, but for some 4x beer, I might look into one ;)

dang - I miss Castlemaines almost as much as I miss the Gold Coast.....

[Curt Palme]

I don't have an HD recorder either, but you'd get more response if you offered up Aussie women, what's up with that?

;)

Curt

[Clarence]

I'm bummed too... we just moved outside the range of OTA HD...

I've got a bunch of 3-10 minutes clips of broadcast HDTV from my FusionHDTV card. Good demo segments. Including last year's Victoria's Secrets show ;)

I can send you some DVD-R's. Requires a HTPC... uses the free demo HD player on dvico.com

If interested, PM your address.

-Clarence

[dokworm]

Clarence, that would be absolutely fantastic. There will be many appreciative Aussies once it does the rounds...You have PM.

The sad thing is I have a HDTV card, just no signals anymore :(

Curt, if I get any HDTV recordings of Aussie girls, I'll send them your way!

FV, I'll send you a can of XXXX for Christmas ;)

[Mark_A_W]

I call Shotgun!

You'll mail it to me once your've made a copy, won't you Dokworm? ;)

[jsp]

Mate XXXX????? you guys must be desperate!!!! I am willing to put up a slab of coopers pale for some good HD!

[Mark_A_W]

Up your bid with a Mountain Goat Pale Ale.

(You guys don't think we drink Fosters do you? Nobody touches that swill down here.)

[losfp]

Does ANYONE in Australia drink Fosters? :) No one I know...

[dokworm]

Shhh, I was hopng to offload all our crappy beers.....

[Mark_A_W]

oh.....sorry......

[emdawgz1]

Originally posted by marcorsyscom
I'm bummed too... we just moved outside the range of OTA HD...



-Clarence

Clarence, where are you in N. VA??? I dont believe that you can be out of OTA HD range. W/ the right tools and antenna i'd bet you can get HD. If you'd like some info to help just drop me a note.

[Clarence]

I'm in 20132 (http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=4353876&fullpage=1).

I can get a 50% signal on only a couple of channels if I move my Silver Sensor antenna around... but nothing like the six 90%+ channels that I got in our previous house at 20170.

I'm sure I could get a better signal if I put up a rooftop or attic antenna.

-Clarence

[mp20748]

Originally posted by marcorsyscom
I'm in 20132 (http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=4353876&fullpage=1).

I'm sure I could get a better signal if I put up a rooftop or attic antenna.

-Clarence

Yeah, If you do, get an amplifier that mounts on or near the antenna.

[emdawgz1]

Originally posted by marcorsyscom
I'm in 20132 (http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=4353876&fullpage=1).

I can get a 50% signal on only a couple of channels if I move my Silver Sensor antenna around... but nothing like the six 90%+ channels that I got in our previous house at 20170.

I'm sure I could get a better signal if I put up a rooftop or attic antenna.

-Clarence

2 things.

1. Go to Anetnnaweb.org and find the HD channels closet to you and the directions of the signal.

2. Read the Primer on projectorexpert.com. This gives you some really good technical info on how to get an hd signal. Pete putnam ran a seminar for us here in philly and showed us how to pull in a good signal in some difficult locations.

If you need more help drop me a line.

[penticton102]

at least something shows up on your screen where we are if it wasn,t for cable and just using an antenna we would get one super grainy picture that is totally unwatchable,(mountains both sides of town) even sat tv leaves allot to be desired............

[Matthew Todd]

I'm sure I could get a better signal if I put up a rooftop or attic antenna

Just a personal anecdote. We originally had an attic antenna installed, and we got the analog broadcasts fine, but none of the digitals.

Finally got the same antenna up on the rooftop, and now the analog channels are much better, plus we get 8 digital channels.

If you can, it's worth putting that antenna up higher.

Matt

[dokworm]

Now if only I could get the eifell (sp?) tower stuck on my roof and wired up, maybe I could get some HD action.

Clarence, you don't have a roof antenna?!? I think thats almost unheard of here, Oz is a veritable jungle of them

[Clarence]

Clarence, you don't have a roof antenna?!?Nope... We've got DishTV. And the Silver Sensor set-top antenna was sufficient for OTA HD in our previous house.

[ripplebox]

i'm new to the HT stuff, but thought this might help (cheap imax dvd's). has anyone checked these out? i'm a newb so they won't let me direct link for fear of spammers, so try this...


[www]store.indiedocs.com/sale.html

[Robert A. Hill]

Dokworm,
Do you ever troll the binary newsgroups such as "alt.binaries.hdtv"?

[Clarence]

The DVD+R is on it's way:

[font="courier"]Directory of E:\

148,541,620 1080i-Leno-Halle-Barry-2003-11-14.tp
63,418,604 1080i-NFL-Colts-Chiefs.tp
200,638,112 1080i-PBS-WETA-DC-Virginia.tp
897,469,324 1080i-Victorias-Secret-2003-11-19.tp
423,046,812 1080i-Zorro.tp
112,530,220 2004-01-17(Sat)AM1203-CHD26 desert animals.tp
127,818,004 2004-02-01(Sun)PM0930-CHD09 Super Bowl.tp
173,873,116 2004-02-02(Mon)PM0916-CHD07 Gladiator.tp
299,243,360 2004-02-09(Mon)PM0852-CHD39 Mummy.tp
262,490,864 2004-02-15(Sun)PM0157-CHD48 NASCAR.tp
142,832,436 2004-02-29(Sun)PM0800-CHD39 Oscars preshow.tp
576,748,468 2004-02-29(Sun)PM0832-CHD39 Oscars Billy Crystal skits.tp
204,032,640 480p-Redskins-Cowboys-2003-12-14.tp
41,256,788 720p-Castaway.tp
438,485,560 720p-Enemy-of-the-State.tp
72,264,756 720p-LSU-Oklahoma-Sugar-Bowl.tp
5,354,150 FusionHDTVDemo2.00.exe[/font]

Pass it on to someone else when you get it copied to your hard drive.

-Clarence

[zambaretzu]

So Australia has HDTV in the cities?

[jsp]

we have HD in some cities, and depending which cities is wether the HD is simply scaled up from SD. Im in the capital of South Australia and I bet the actual 1080i HD broadcast here would be less than 50 hours a week on 4 channels which are broadcasting 1080i. Then again on the east coast where most of the population is I think they get nearly everything in HD

[zambaretzu]

Just out of curiostity, is it NTSC? Or rather, how many frames per second is your HD in?

[Mark_A_W]

Yeah, we get a fair bit in HD, but because of the STUPID EX-MINISTER FOR COMMUNICATIONS, and a particular well known Hi-Fi retailer/lobbiest, we get everything triple cast:

Analog
SD Digital
HD Digital

Ok, we still need analog, but piggybacking SD and HD on the same channel- to be "backwards compatible", was MADNESS. Our HD quality suffers as a result.

What they should've done was only broadcast HD, and instead of getting cheap SD set top boxes, we would have cheap HD to SD downscaling, 576i output boxes.

Then our HD wouldn't be compromised and the price of true HD boxes may have gone down as well - if they shared components with the SD boxes.


It should be noted that the retailler/lobbiest, while being very helpful in getting digital off the ground, was importing expensive European TV's that were NOT HD compatible at the time....

[Mark_A_W]

PAL 1920x1080i, 50hz.

[newbieDAN]

Dokworm,
I'd be keen for a look/copy of the DVD after you've finished with it, I've got a few links if you'd like.....
http://206.159.116.24/Downloads/Public/ResidentEvil2.zip
http://download.cinenow.com/vobtrailers/wmv-racecars_1080p.wmv
ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ct/spezial/crawford.mpg

you could PM if you want to pass it around.
Dan

[dokworm]

I will be duplicating it and adding whatever other material I can get my hands on and flooding the country with it to whoever wants it. Thanks Clarence, your humble recordings will be on Aussie screens everywhere soon.
I love these forums :)

[emdawgz1]

Originally posted by marcorsyscom
The DVD+R is on it's way:

[font="courier"]Directory of E:\

148,541,620 1080i-Leno-Halle-Barry-2003-11-14.tp
63,418,604 1080i-NFL-Colts-Chiefs.tp
200,638,112 1080i-PBS-WETA-DC-Virginia.tp
897,469,324 1080i-Victorias-Secret-2003-11-19.tp
423,046,812 1080i-Zorro.tp
112,530,220 2004-01-17(Sat)AM1203-CHD26 desert animals.tp
127,818,004 2004-02-01(Sun)PM0930-CHD09 Super Bowl.tp
173,873,116 2004-02-02(Mon)PM0916-CHD07 Gladiator.tp
299,243,360 2004-02-09(Mon)PM0852-CHD39 Mummy.tp
262,490,864 2004-02-15(Sun)PM0157-CHD48 NASCAR.tp
142,832,436 2004-02-29(Sun)PM0800-CHD39 Oscars preshow.tp
576,748,468 2004-02-29(Sun)PM0832-CHD39 Oscars Billy Crystal skits.tp
204,032,640 480p-Redskins-Cowboys-2003-12-14.tp
41,256,788 720p-Castaway.tp
438,485,560 720p-Enemy-of-the-State.tp
72,264,756 720p-LSU-Oklahoma-Sugar-Bowl.tp
5,354,150 FusionHDTVDemo2.00.exe[/font]

Pass it on to someone else when you get it copied to your hard drive.

-Clarence


Umm Clarence....... i hate to ask....but .... I'd love to get a copy of that too.


I'd be happy to reimburse you for any costs.


Shoot me a pm if you'd like.



BTW, are you going to try to setup for OTA HD?????

[AaronNWilson]

I hope I don't get into trouble for saying this, feel free to delete this post if it's not appropriate.

You can download an awful lot of HD content from alt.binaries.hdtv but you will need a newsreader like xnews to do it. I downloaded a 2 gig clip of heather locklear on the leno show in HD and it looked bloody amazing!&@(*&$@

[dokworm]

Hey Clarence, the disc just arrived, and I've sent out five copies of it to the HD starved masses!
Thanks heaps.

[Clarence]

Wow! I mailed it Saturday and when I had to fill out a customs form I figured it would sit in a pile for weeks or months before you got it!

Literally halfway around the world in 3 days... not too shabby.

For those that don't already have the dvico FusionHD player:
- run [font="courier"]FusionHDTVDemo2.00.exe[/font] on the DVD+R
- click "Install FusionHDTV demo"
- Next, Next, Next, Next, Restart

Then it's easiest to just copy the .ts files from the DVD to
[font="courier"]C:\Program Files\DVICO\FusionHDTVDemo\Down[/font]

-Clarence

[losfp]

Ooh ooh, can I get on the distribution list too? :)

[jsp]

what about me....it isnt fair.....I waited long enough and now I would like my share........:D


hey dok, might have to get one of those C boards from u as all mine have gotten lost in the post!

[dokworm]

I sent one out to everyone that e-mailed me, the next round is up t those guys :)
I am seeding the Oz crt forum, so I think their won't be a PC without one shortly.

yeah, I couldn't believe how quick it got to me, mail from Sydney usually takes 2 - 3 days to here - That is the fastest international parcel I have ever gotten via post. Thanks again Clarence!

[newbieDAN]

Is it possible to do the chain letter thing....If I get a copy, I'll copy and send it out to few people...and then each one of them send it out to a few more or something........a couple of bucks for postage and cheap DVD-R's....would be worth the cost I'm sure. All we need is a list of people interested.
Dan
Who will send me one?

[Pedro-in-Oz]

I'll send you one, PM me your address, I don't think anyone is going to be worried about the 70c per DVD blank. It aint exactly a bank buster :)

[Chris Albert]

Hey guys,

Stop with the lust for Aussie girls, I'm an Aussie that now lives/works in Israel....you should see the Israeli chics!!

[Jerry Arseneau]

A great player for .ts files is VLC which can be found at www.videolan.org. I can also recommend content from the newsgroup alt.binairies.hdtv and the companion website http://altbinarieshdtv.com . Just be sure to thank the contributors.

[Chris Albert]

Could I respectfully request a date with that DVD-R? About to get a PJ and would love to have some HD material.

To anyone who has finished with it and wants to send it on:

Chris Albert
CBS News
5 Sderot Hahaskala
Tel Aviv 67890
Israel

Cheers!

[g-man5.1]

I want in on the HD sample disc as well. Anyone who has a copy PLEASE pm me. I'll glad reimburse you for shipping and the DVD-R disc.

[dokworm]

OK I'll make another 10 copies and send them out.
Chris, yours is in the mail. How about some international exchange - if you guys in other countries end up with some new material, send it on back :)

[Chris Albert]

Dokworm,

Thanks so much, that's great. There is NOTHING here in Israel. These guys only got color TV here in 1981!!!! Let me send you some dosh for the postage/disk. Do you have a PayPal account?

By the way, how do you get the files re: the movies posted on alt.binaries.HDTV???? Where are the files?

Cheers, Chris

[dokworm]

You need a newsreader program that supports downloads

[Chris Albert]

I was on http://altbinarieshdtv.com/index.php

How does it work there?

[DaveInVA]

I just moved to 24541, mid-southern VA and antennaweb only lists 1 digital station at all for my area with any ant after I was used to getting several in the Richmond area. So much for the MY-HD card..

Dave

[VespaMan]

Oj, the hdtv newsgroup where really nice ;-) thanks everyone mentioning this one! I only wished that I would get more than the 7 mb/s from the news server.... Is there anyone that can point me to a news server carrying this group, in north of europe instead?


- Micael

[Delicious2]

I would love to be able to get 7 Mbps on news.rcn.com for alt.binaries.hdtv. My ISP seems to have no clue as to how to increase it beyond the 270Kbps it's averaging now... :mad:

Any suggestions?

peace,
Mark H

[Gary Murrell]

You guys are pitifull, I have so much damn HDTV content that I don't know what to do with it, pre-recorded mostly, days/months, hell years worth, 100's of movies
D-VHS is my format and I love it

I also have over 20 channels of HDTV on Dish, I haven't watched crappy DVD movies in who knows how long, my 800 Disc collection sits damn near useless :mad:

-Gary

[kal]

Why don't you guys just use something like Bit Torrent to seed it like the other demo DVD's that Clarence put out? Anyone can then pull/share it.

Kal

[Stepan]

There are three "new" samples on divx web, I downloaded it few weeks ago, you probably even earlier! :)
Black in Cinderella Man is not black, it is awfully grey, you will have to move(?) brightness down...