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Brian Hampton
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 5:36 pm Post subject: HD Movie Trailers? |
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Hi,
Do you collect HD movie trailers? If you have a PS3 you most likely do. I have gone through phases with this sometimes thinking "who needs the trailers when I've got so many full length movies". But,.. I must admit these trailers can be fun.
With the PS3 (and possibly the same with the Xbox I just don't know) Dl-ing 1080p trailers is simple from PSN but there are some other places.
One such place is (believe it or not) gamecrapping.com
I dl'ed the Hellboy 2 1080p trailer there yesterday and it's lots of fun. I thought at first the file was corrupt but it just needed to be renamed slightly. (Had both the mp4 and mpg extentions for some reason.)
Dave's trailer page is another source for 1080p trailers.
Lots of trailers are available from Apple if you have QT pro you can convert them easily to MP4 but ... I don't have QT pro so I'm often looking elsewhere.
-Brian
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Person99
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There is also the HDNet "Nothing But Trailers" show. I record these and edit them into a "real" before movie experience (don't need to see me navigating a UI or anything-just pop in a D-VHS and go from black screen to trailers). 
Just another option.
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dropzone7
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| Person99 wrote: | There is also the HDNet "Nothing But Trailers" show. I record these and edit them into a "real" before movie experience (don't need to see me navigating a UI or anything-just pop in a D-VHS and go from black screen to trailers).
Just another option. |
Love, love, love that show! They now have special editions of it as well like a "Superhero Edition" with nothing but Spiderman, Batman, X-Men, etc.
How do you get them to D-VHS? You must have Firewire enabled ports on your cable box?
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JustGreg
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| Person99 wrote: | There is also the HDNet "Nothing But Trailers" show. I record these and edit them into a "real" before movie experience (don't need to see me navigating a UI or anything-just pop in a D-VHS and go from black screen to trailers).
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Time Warner has an alternative (finally) to their crappy POS Pioneer HD STB (which I have) and I'll be getting the Samsung which has a firewire port. I'll be able to use the D-VHS recorder I bought over a year ago. Yay!
Great idea Dave.  I hadn't thought of using the D-VHS for that. I was going to either stream through the 360 or burn them to SD DVD and play them on a second upconverting player.
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ecrabb
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The other thing to keep in mind is that the trailers on "Nothing But Trailers" usually have MUCH better audio than the downloaded stuff, too - usually 5.1 AC-3.
The download stuff is mostly MPEG4 with AAC audio - which is usually a little "thin" sounding. Even if it is surround (a lot of the 1080p trailers are), players like the PS3 will just down-mix it to stereo PCM at playback. Hopefully, Sony will add an audio feature to the PS3 to on-the-fly re-encode the multi-channel AAC to AC-3 or DTS. That would be very cool.
Either that has to happen, or has anybody seen an AVR or prepro that will decode AAC?
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Person99
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| dropzone7 wrote: | | Person99 wrote: | There is also the HDNet "Nothing But Trailers" show. I record these and edit them into a "real" before movie experience (don't need to see me navigating a UI or anything-just pop in a D-VHS and go from black screen to trailers).
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Love, love, love that show! They now have special editions of it as well like a "Superhero Edition" with nothing but Spiderman, Batman, X-Men, etc.
How do you get them to D-VHS? You must have Firewire enabled ports on your cable box? |
Yes, I have Verizon FiOS which is firewire enabled and broadcast at the sources bitrate.
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Person99
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Great idea Dave. I hadn't thought of using the D-VHS for that. I was going to either stream through the 360 or burn them to SD DVD and play them on a second upconverting player. |
If you want to be really slick, queue the movie up in your BD player and pause right at the black screen before the beginning logo. Play the D-VHS to the black screen at the end of the tape, switch sources, then hit play on the BD. Flawless presentation! 
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emdawgz1
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| Person99 wrote: | There is also the HDNet "Nothing But Trailers" show. I record these and edit them into a "real" before movie experience (don't need to see me navigating a UI or anything-just pop in a D-VHS and go from black screen to trailers).
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HDnet also has a show called Ultimate Trailer Show. It's really good too.
Wait, i agree w/ Dave 
Is that a sign of the Apocalypse???? 
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ecrabb
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| Person99 wrote: | | If you want to be really slick, queue the movie up in your BD player and pause right at the black screen before the beginning logo. Play the D-VHS to the black screen at the end of the tape, switch sources, then hit play on the BD. Flawless presentation! |
I had people from the office over a few months ago and ran a 30-minute or so demo that was pretty complicated. I had a BD and an HD DVD cued up where I wanted, and a series of clips on the HTPC and two on the HD Tivo. Played the DirecTivo clips, switched inputs to the BD and played that clip, switched inputs and played the HD DVD clip, switched again and played the HTPC clips that were already edited and queued in sequence. Then, I switched back to the the BD and HD DVD players (I swapped discs and re-cued while the HTPC clips were playing. It was a little stressful, but I pulled it off with only a few seconds of dead air once while I tried to read my pencil-scribbled script/cue sheet in the dark with only a penlight.
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Person99
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| Nashou66 wrote: | I wish dish network had firewire to theirs , 169time or soemthing like that had a conversion kit wonder if there is one out now for the new recievers.
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The 169time stuff is not for the weak of heart!!!! Not plug and play by ANY means. If you have a BellExpressVu or JVC 6000 then 169time has a $500 kit. Then you'll need a computer to run Linux with their software to fix the sat stream.
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| Person99 wrote: | | Nashou66 wrote: | I wish dish network had firewire to theirs , 169time or soemthing like that had a conversion kit wonder if there is one out now for the new recievers.
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The 169time stuff is not for the weak of heart!!!! Not plug and play by ANY means. If you have a BellExpressVu or JVC 6000 then 169time has a $500 kit. Then you'll need a computer to run Linux with their software to fix the sat stream. |
oh well...
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Brian Hampton
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Well,
Once I figured out how to fix the 1080p trailers from Gamecrapping.com, I dl-ed more and I love the stuff they have up.
The Hellboy2 trailer is cool and there is one for Gotham Night and I'm Dl-ing the Indiana Jones trailer now...
-Brian
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MYoung
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3x DVD is another nice format for trailers. Put that HD DVD player to some use!
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