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gooser · Sep 15, 2006, 10:45 AM

anyone download a movie yet? impressions? how much space on your hard drive does one of these things take up? thanx

mitchell_pgh · Sep 15, 2006, 01:02 PM

I almost downloaded Pirates of the... just so that I could compare it against the DVD I have, but $9.99 is $9.99. I'm still considering it for this weekend so stay tuned.

olli_g · Sep 15, 2006, 07:10 PM

I would really like to know what kind of audio it has. Does is really have Dolby Digital or just Dolby Surround, which is a lame 2.1 sound? Could anyone who already bought a movie tell me this?

slpdLoad · Sep 15, 2006, 07:24 PM

I bought Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. It is 1.22 GB. Downloaded in a bit over an hour on my connection. Note that you can move a movie to an external HD or something once you've downloaded it. Personally, it looks beautiful on my PowerBook. Pretty much like a DVD. However, since I tried to watch it while downloading, it slowed down once it was "processing the file" to finish the download. After that is was smooth as butter. ; )

Quicktime seems to tell me that it is a stereo track, but that could be because I don't have any devices that can output surround sound. I'd like to know this too. It sounded darn good on my 2.1 home theater system though.

gooser · Sep 15, 2006, 11:27 PM

Originally Posted by slpdLoad

I bought Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. It is 1.22 GB. Downloaded in a bit over an hour on my connection. Note that you can move a movie to an external HD or something once you've downloaded it. Personally, it looks beautiful on my PowerBook. Pretty much like a DVD. However, since I tried to watch it while downloading, it slowed down once it was "processing the file" to finish the download. After that is was smooth as butter. ; )

Quicktime seems to tell me that it is a stereo track, but that could be because I don't have any devices that can output surround sound. I'd like to know this too. It sounded darn good on my 2.1 home theater system though.

exactly what i wanted to know. thank you.

olli_g · Sep 16, 2006, 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by slpdLoad

Quicktime seems to tell me that it is a stereo track, but that could be because I don't have any devices that can output surround sound. I'd like to know this too.

Quicktime would tell you if it were a Dolby Digital track, even if you hadn't attached any speakers at all!

So it seems like the "Surround sound" is just a plain old Dolby Surround sound with two stereo speakers and one surround speaker, encoded in a stereo track.

Well then.

slpdLoad · Sep 16, 2006, 01:39 PM

F*ckDell · Sep 16, 2006, 05:56 PM

shittay

olli_g · Sep 17, 2006, 03:01 AM

Originally Posted by slpdLoad

Thank you for clarifying this issue!

That's as clearly not surround as it is disappointing.
But well, I might just have had my hopes too high up when I saw this:

Uncle Skeleton · Sep 17, 2006, 01:24 PM

Can anyone tell me if they have chapter tracks? Thanks

slpdLoad · Sep 17, 2006, 02:03 PM

Yes, they do.