High Definition Video Samples - Download

[titanmiller]

Link - Microsoft

Download the clips to experience high definition Windows Media Video. To deliver ultra-high quality, these clips were encoded 24 fps, and at the resolution noted of either 1280 x 720 (720p) or 1920 x 1080 (1080p).

System Requirements
Although other system configurations may be able to playback this content, for an optimal experience we recommend systems of at least a 2.53 GHz Intel or AMD Athlon XP 2200+ or higher processor for 720p and 3.0 GHz or greater processor for 1080p. For either scenario, an AGP4x based NVIDIA or ATI video adapter card with at least 32 MB of RAM and the most recent OEM driver updates are recommended.

The higher the data rate (in Mbps), the higher the resource requirement. For optimal playback of 1080p content, an AGP8x 128 MB video card is required.

I'm on dial-up so its taking me a very long time to download these, but they are worth it.

 

[NYHoustonman]

I had seen some of these before, but in Windows Media format, not .exe. Downloading Speed now... The quality is pretty impressive.


EDIT- apparently it's just compressed and IS in .wmv format. There is still a larger choice now, they never had Speed before...

 

[Robor]

I saw these a few weeks back. The quality is freaking amazing. Really makes me hate my 10+ year old 35" Mitsubishi TV. A friend just got a sweet 50" DLP so that only makes it worse. Now all of my friends have a better TV than me.

 

[jim1976]

My God I just downloaded robotica and I'm speechless.
Unfortunately I'm on dial-up too, but tomorrow I'll go to my friend who has DSL to d/l the others.
Nice one thanks man :beer:

 

[screw3d]

Are the 1080i ones higher quality than then 720p ones?

Edit: uhh yeah

I'm impressed

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: screw3d
Are the 1080i ones higher quality than then 720p ones?

Edit: uhh yeah

I'm impressed

They aren't 1080i.... We're talking about computer monitors here... 1080p, that's right... 1920x1080 progressive baby! You need a pretty good CRT to watch it in full quality though... and us LCDers are out for that one.

 

[clicknext]

they run choppy on my computer. 1.4ghz AthlonXP, 512MB DDR, Radeon9600Pro.

 

[DarkKnight]

wow, i'm gonna buy that T2 dvd this week. Runs smooth on my comp.

 

[titanmiller]

If they are running poorly try playing them with the DIVX player, my 1.2GHz Athlon runs the 720p video fine with the DIVX player, but stumbles badly trying to play with WMP (Microsoft coding, geeze).

I'm on dial-up and so far have downloaded Robitica and Speed in 720p and am almost done with Flight 720p. I doubt I'll download the 1080p videos because my monitor maxes out at 1280*1024

 

[vshah]

oh thank god my crt can do 1920 wow i'm speechless

btw that site was unusually slow for microsoft...usually I dl from them at 1mb/s this time i only got ~150kbs

-Vivan

 

[Dulanic]

HD is amazing in the picture quality, just wish they had gone a bit more out and made 1080p and set it as the standard for HDTV.

 

[Acanthus]

WOW

 

[rbV5]

wow, i'm gonna buy that T2 dvd this week. Runs smooth on my comp

Wifey got it for me for Christmas.....watched it last week...awesome!

 

[Czar]

Originally posted by: rbV5

wow, i'm gonna buy that T2 dvd this week. Runs smooth on my comp

Wifey got it for me for Christmas.....watched it last week...awesome!

is that dvd version in the same resolution as the video file?

 

[JonnyBlaze]

the dvd comes with 2 disks. the second disk is for pc only and its the same resolution.


JB

 

[SaltBoy]

alt.binaries.multimedia has a certain *ahem* movie in HDTV resolution that you can download right now. It's a pretty bad flick, but pretty awesome picture.