Comments on: Who needs Netflix with the Internet Archive around? http://bavatuesdays.com/who-needs-netflix-with-the-internet-archive-around/ a "b" blog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:25:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tony D'Ambra http://bavatuesdays.com/who-needs-netflix-with-the-internet-archive-around/comment-page-1/#comment-18151 Tony D'Ambra Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:23:18 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/who-needs-netflix-with-the-internet-archive-around/#comment-18151 Yes Jim, I should have pointed out that they are DivX files, which are problematic in that the movie looks fine in the default small screen window on a PC monitor, but as soon as you maximize the window to fit your screen, it gets "pixelated" [do you recall that lovely scene set in Congress in Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) :)]. The trick for me anyway, is to feed the movie onto my standard definition Plasma TV from my Media Center PC, and it comes up roses... Btw, sorry I omitted to say Great Post! Yes Jim, I should have pointed out that they are DivX files, which are problematic in that the movie looks fine in the default small screen window on a PC monitor, but as soon as you maximize the window to fit your screen, it gets “pixelated” [do you recall that lovely scene set in Congress in Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) :) ].

The trick for me anyway, is to feed the movie onto my standard definition Plasma TV from my Media Center PC, and it comes up roses…

Btw, sorry I omitted to say Great Post!

]]> By: jimgroom http://bavatuesdays.com/who-needs-netflix-with-the-internet-archive-around/comment-page-1/#comment-18135 jimgroom Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:16:07 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/who-needs-netflix-with-the-internet-archive-around/#comment-18135 Thanks Tony, Excellent additions. I actually went to the retroTV site fro your blog a week or so ago when you posted and tried the bit-Torrent for The Red House. Unfortunately it was not really impressive quality. Moreover, seems like some of the movies are in Windows Media format -making them virtually unusable for me. I would like to see the full "DVD quality" versions via bit=torrent, which is definitely the right way to distribute these. The RetroTV site mentions this for the DivX versions, but I haven't really seen the quality increase for The Red House which was an avi file and I imagine DivX encoded. As of now, I am downloading the full versions from Internet Archive (which takes forever) and watching them via the VLC player -which works well for now. However, I may have to re-visit the RetroTV site soon and see if I am missing something, or at least stop the bitching and host my own bit-torrent files of some other films that they aren't seeding to join in, share the goodness, and get the compression/quality issues perfected. Thanks Tony,

Excellent additions. I actually went to the retroTV site fro your blog a week or so ago when you posted and tried the bit-Torrent for The Red House. Unfortunately it was not really impressive quality. Moreover, seems like some of the movies are in Windows Media format -making them virtually unusable for me. I would like to see the full “DVD quality” versions via bit=torrent, which is definitely the right way to distribute these. The RetroTV site mentions this for the DivX versions, but I haven’t really seen the quality increase for The Red House which was an avi file and I imagine DivX encoded. As of now, I am downloading the full versions from Internet Archive (which takes forever) and watching them via the VLC player -which works well for now. However, I may have to re-visit the RetroTV site soon and see if I am missing something, or at least stop the bitching and host my own bit-torrent files of some other films that they aren’t seeding to join in, share the goodness, and get the compression/quality issues perfected.

]]> By: Tony D'Ambra http://bavatuesdays.com/who-needs-netflix-with-the-internet-archive-around/comment-page-1/#comment-18130 Tony D'Ambra Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:58:22 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/who-needs-netflix-with-the-internet-archive-around/#comment-18130 Hi Jim You should check out RetroTV.com, which hosts free many public domain movies not listed here, including these noirs: Detour (1945) The Red House (1947) Whistle Stop (1946) Impact (1949) Quicksand (1950) Kansas City Confidential (1952) The Stranger (1946) Suddenly (1954) Some can be downloaded using the Azureus Bit-Torrent Client. Full details in this post from my FilmsNoir.Net blog: http://filmsnoir.net/film_noir/extra-extra-free-movies-to-download.html Hi Jim

You should check out RetroTV.com, which hosts free many public domain movies not listed here, including these noirs:

Detour (1945)
The Red House (1947)
Whistle Stop (1946)
Impact (1949)
Quicksand (1950)
Kansas City Confidential (1952)
The Stranger (1946)
Suddenly (1954)

Some can be downloaded using the Azureus Bit-Torrent Client.

Full details in this post from my FilmsNoir.Net blog:

http://filmsnoir.net/film_noir/extra-extra-free-movies-to-download.html

]]> By: D'Arcy Norman http://bavatuesdays.com/who-needs-netflix-with-the-internet-archive-around/comment-page-1/#comment-18111 D'Arcy Norman Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:19:10 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/who-needs-netflix-with-the-internet-archive-around/#comment-18111 Thanks for the list of movies, Jim! I know what I'm watching tonight... Netflix is safe, though, as long as copyright is continuously/infinitely extended. Perhaps that's a good thing, though, since most recently-released films are such dreck... Can't WAIT until I can grab my copy of The Emperor's New Groove from archive.org... Thanks for the list of movies, Jim! I know what I’m watching tonight…

Netflix is safe, though, as long as copyright is continuously/infinitely extended. Perhaps that’s a good thing, though, since most recently-released films are such dreck… Can’t WAIT until I can grab my copy of The Emperor’s New Groove from archive.org…

]]> By: Brian http://bavatuesdays.com/who-needs-netflix-with-the-internet-archive-around/comment-page-1/#comment-18107 Brian Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:28:36 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/who-needs-netflix-with-the-internet-archive-around/#comment-18107 Great course idea! Great course idea!
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