E3 2005 in High Definition @ FileShack!

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  Actually, Cleveland does their news in HD ( http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA490691?verticalid= : LeftE
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    Wow, I wasnt aware that ANYBODY was doing HD for the local news. I'd like to see if they are really doing... : kraemer
    • Heh, it's what you get when you can't afford to buy all the newfangled Xbox360s and Playstation2s and PSP... : LeftE
    • From what I could find, WUSA DC, KUSA Denver, WJW Cleveland, KOMO and KING Seattle, WRAL Raleigh, and KAB... : Buster Hymen
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  in LA, ABC ( channel 7) is just starting to do HD. they just had a huge press blitz about it. : josecuervo
  • http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?postid=5611139#post5611139 I think it's just their news ch... : Buster Hymen
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  huh? 3/4 of the local news here in Seattle is in HD. KING5, KOMO4, KIRO7 (NBC, ABC, CBS). The only one... : Icehawk
  • Are you sure? We don't mean "the regular news in 480i upconverted to 1080 or 720," we mean actual HD cont... : LeftE

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  It appears that there is some partnership with microsoft going on. One of their requirements was probabl... : alias
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    also, WMV is much easier for the average user. No codecs for them to hunt down and install. : Prozium
    • It's not that big a deal; it's as simple as a single download and installer. We're dealing with people... : Conan
• Why not use h.264 through Qucktime 7 or .avi? That's available for all platforms...well qt7 should be ou... : psosputnik

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• + AGEIA PhysX PPU!! Thou must not forget that. : SlamDunk
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  I want to see footage of the DS games. : Turd Ferguson
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    plz dont waste HD bandwidth on DS games...... : tsteltz
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      ^^boo this man (i want to see some high-def castlevania ds) : ColoradoCNC
      • high-def DS? I want to see their fingers touching the screen in HD!! : tsteltz
    • exactly : lonestar3
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  All I want is High Def booth babes. Really, who pays attention to the games at E3? :-D : schnitz76
  • I just hope they won't be as cheap and skanky looking as last year's E3. Quality has dropped over the ... : sigma
• This is awesome news. E3 coverage at high quality and most probably of games and tech that interests me t... : freshyk
• I wanna see more fountain coverage!! I was soooo relaxed listening to the trickle of the water. : coyoterys
• GTA:SA for the PC!!! As much as I'm looking forward to that title, I'm kidding :( : FlatlineDixay
• I can't fucking wait for oblivion. : shredder133
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  I'd want the games that AREN'T going to get overexposure from every other site (both during and outside o... : Disco Cat
  • Agreed. It'll be good to see the headliners, but going beyond that would be cool. : bounty838
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  How about be on a look out for these rumored games: Baldurs Gate 3 Secret of Vulcan Fury Super Mario... : baron calamity
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    You mean... rumored here on the Shack, by people that really hope they're coming out someday? : FlatlineDixay
    • yes. Mostly forum rumors. I mean, I'm pretty sure that Baldurs Gate 3 and Starcraft II exist but doubt t... : baron calamity
• Any truly next gen stuff, like console vids and Unreal Engine footage. Also Diablo 3 (please please p... : Dynotaku
• boothbabes! : gamerscz
• Project Gotham Racing 3!!!! : PumpRock
• It would be cool to see it break down, like consoles, pc, and girls. yea, nice and easy : scottk
• Rise of Legends. : aaarrrgh
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  The next game by the ICO guys. I forget the name... Shadow of the beast or something like that. : bigimp
  • Wanda and the Cololssus ? : snowwolf
• Spore fo sure! : Stoned Gargoyle
• NEW RTCW!! : snowwolf
• I wanna see that katamari ball of e3 attendants, preferably booth babes and chicken grease to hold it tog... : imperator
• q4 looked like crap on that mtv xbox360 clip : SlamDunk
• I'd like to see Kingdom Hearts 2, Final Fantasy 12, and Dragon Quest 8. : theBorgie
• Civ 4 please!!! : ar-diniento

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  It's 10 yards away from the condo Steve lives in. : Jack Mathews
  • That thing is fucking huge for that small yard. : sigma
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    If by condo you mean apartment, and by lives in you mean shares space in with yogagirlfriend and the chai : LeftE
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      I'm pretty sure Jack knows what he's talking about ;) : sigma
      • That was intended as an inside joke for sTeve and Jack, as I've been to sTeve's apartment mansex before. ... : LeftE

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  Holy crap I never thought of it that way. I mean I can understand paying to be able to download a demo of... : angrytaxman
  • He's right and yet being a rabid fanboy,.. I still want to do it :( : abrasion
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  I guess you're right (at least) in the fact torrents _really_ need to be used more. : abrasion
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    I can't see torrents becoming a standard until the programs necessary to download one are made available ... : Anti_dentite
    • Well optional torrents at cheaper prices perhaps? that's a good start. : abrasion
• Well, not really. You're not paying for a Mercury membership just for the videos (well, that may be what... : Anti_dentite
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  You're right. Entertainment Weekly and various other movie magazines are free and there are no video g... : Jack Mathews
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    Entertainment weekly reviews movies, interviews actors, offers celebrity news. A better comparison would... : Mr Milquetoast
    • Reviews, actor interviews and celebrity news are all PR for promoting whatever is currently being hyped a... : s2jason
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      Umm, registration may be required, but you can download whatever you want pretty much wherever you want. ... : Jack Mathews
      • Despite that Jack, you gotta agree with the demo disk thing. Those things are way too scarce in Gamecube ... : sam eagle
      • It seems you missed the point of my original post and things have got a bit off track. What I am saying ... : Mr Milquetoast
• You've never heard of http://www.3dgamers.com/ ? : Popedispencer
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  I definitely agree here...hell, people have been willingly paying for PS2 and Xbox magazines with demos i... : Vincent Grayson
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    I totally agree. They should have been stuffing GC demo disks into cereal boxes if you ask me. : sam eagle
    • That is genius : railchu

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• Stadsnät stadsnät stadsnät stadsnät stadsnät stadsnät stadsnÃÆ... : MrLonghair
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  its worth it for the webspace and lack of ads alone. : Turd Ferguson
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    and we will initially get all the HD e3 videos. Non mercury subscribers won't be able to get some conten... : Prozium
    • So we'll get them later? That's cool. If I had money I would subscribe. I'll be watching these videos at ... : freshyk
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  The main reason for mercury is lack of wait times, I'm sure during E3 the wait times for downloads will b... : yourname00
  • Haha... I suck. I totaly forgot about that lines grows a lot during E3. Most time of the year I pretty... : SilverSnake
• Cheap people ruin capitalism. : Entity
• I'm maxing out my 8mbit connection on the amsterdam server now. That plus HD videos = sekhs : Lethal01
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  don't forget you get a lightning bolt! : uncle slappy
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    My lightning bolt is about to expire, and I don't think I'll have the funds to strike again for 6 months ... : cajuncook
    • It's what, $36 for 6 months or so? Stab a hobo for his change if you have to, the lightning bolt makes i... : starvey
• I think this is indeed for a limited time to show the "powah" of the new fileshack. : Sander Pilon

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  I asked him already and he told me it was Sony and not much else.... : kraemer
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    i believe it's this one: http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/SY_Displa... : gamerscz
    • whoa! impressive data sheet. ..*noticing price* :o ... probably rented. :) : lonestar3
    • I really dislike the tearing this camera exhibits when panning. I saw a sample from this camera of the gl... : angrytaxman
  • The Sony HDV only does 1080i HiDef. The stuff they're showing is 720p HiDef. I'm guessing it must be on... : Dingbat

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• wow, it's amazing how many people with 3+ ghz are stuttering. my 2.4@2.7 is playing it fine. does your ... : vassili_zaitsev
• my xp2200at 2600+ with 512mb ram and a fx5200 is playing them smooth as butter. : Prozium
• I get 25 FPS on the first video, 0 frames skipped, 50-60% CPU Usage System: 1800XP 1gb ram 6800 nu ... : Stoned Gargoyle
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  Same 10-12 fps , very uneven stuttering , around 10% cpu usage as well. a64 3500+,2gb ram,6800gt, somethi... : imperator
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    Im thinking it's the nvidia's drivers / chips. Read this review http://www.dealtime.com/xPR-GeForce_6800_... : imperator
    • It's only a problem in the agp revisions of the 6800 chips though, they fixed it by the time they shipped... : imperator
• http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/7535 so i guess we're seeing the effect of this ? : imperator

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  Neither do I, but even with skipping it looks damn good. : omnova
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    I swear my PC is gay or?? P4, 3ghz, 1gb ram and 9800 pro (last time I tried HD content, only a GF4MX now) : abrasion
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      it's stuttering here: A64 3500, GF 6800GT, 1GB RAM When rendering a game at 1600x1200 works better tha... : ghale
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        There's nothing wrong with the codec, it's something with your system. Both samples play smooth even on ... : magila
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          it's not my system...just played them again and they're now smooth as butter. I stand by my original s... : ghale
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            No stutters here in any of my players, media player, bsplayer, etc... and I'm only half the system you ar... : Wombat Woo
            • I have no anti-virus or anti-spyware programs installed. And just in case it was going to be your next po... : ghale
          • Me too they are fucking weird to play - it doesn't make sense people with monster pc's cant play them but... : abrasion
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        i got the exact same setup , stuttering like hell : imperator
        • Well mine don't get any better on the second run , a64 3500+,2gb ram,6800gt : imperator

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  well, it is not as if games were being developed for mac users, is it ? except wow of course : bluegrapefruit
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    what if your interested in consoles too? : disembodied potato
    • They are mac users, they've already made it clearly obvious they don't care about games :) : abrasion
• this post is great so you make a point then destroy it yourself. : eyegeegeewhy
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  You don't need bloated players like quicktime to view AVC/H.264 in windows. Keep your mac propaganda out ... : MeenMunky
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    it's still better than Windows Media Player! QT7 will probably handle video better on both platforms as ... : Postal
    • you will not find many experienced windows users taking WMP as a reference : bluegrapefruit
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    You're calling QT bloated?? Relative to what? : bounty838
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      Media player classic. : Turd Ferguson
      • Or VLC... The actual interface is kinda nice, but it installs other crap I don't want (what's with tha... : SilverSnake
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    It's not like H264 encoded quicktime won't be playable in stuff like media player classic and other playe... : ovrlrd
    • You don't need quicktime to view AVC encoded files on windows right now, and never have. The appropriate ... : MeenMunky
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  I would think you could get the codec for the Mac version of WVM (yes there is a decent version of the pl... : dumptruck
  • The mac client for Windows Media is absolutely terrible. It's not even produced by the MacBU at Microsoft... : kbaxter1
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    Uhh have you used windows media player for OSX? It's absolutely horrid. It's probably the most poorly op... : ovrlrd
    • Uh yeah - does every line of code have to be stellar in your book before others can use it? works fine f... : dumptruck
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  720P H.264 video frequently drops frames on my Mac Mini. Very disappointing. : pyrogen
  • that's odd.. I can play the 720p trailers posted a couple weeks ago on my iBook G3 900MHz with 640MB of R... : fatman
  • and 720p WMV doesn't? o_O : xenoeye

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  The requirements: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/content_provider/film/ChoosingPC.aspx A... : Buster Hymen
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    Hmmm you have to have xp, can't see it from work :P : carazy
    • I only have Win2k and am running media player 9, and the video runs just fine. : Stoned Gargoyle
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    Wow. Not only games are requiring a f*ckload more of power to run, but their shakycam videos too! Awesome... : rorshack
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      Smooth on my 1.7 Ghz 1.25 GB RAM IBM Laptop, of course I'm a hell hound when it comes to resource manage... : wwonderboy
      • Well, the same applies to me - my machine is as clean as possible - but there's no way that video even ru... : rorshack
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    Fuck! I don't have a DVD drive so I cannot watch these movies... :( stupidest "requirement" for a code : SilverSnake
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      So you're the guy making us buy our games on 5 or more CDs instead of 1 nice DVD, : baron calamity
      • Nope. I live in Europe and games comes out on DVD all the time here. :P I just haven't had a need for : SilverSnake
  • Huh, so that's why that HD Serenity Trailer was so choppy. Looked damn good though. : omnova
• hmmmmm.... : cawcaw
• I've got an XP2200+, 512MB RAM, and a 9500 Pro, looked perfectly fine to me. I think you're missing a co... : o0JediBeavis0o
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  Media Player Classic handles hi-def stuff better for me than Windows Media Player. you might try that. : Busta J
  • Yeah definitely give MPC a try http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303&package_id=84... : Carnivac
  • Yup, smooth as a well oiled babies bum on my system. Win2K, 3.0gig Intel, 1gig RAM, Media Player Class... : pingoo
• ive got a xp1500 a geforce4ti4400 and 1 gig of ram.. looks great to me : supermonkeyballz
• It's not smooth on my rig, unfortunately - XP1800+, 512mb, 7200 drives. Oh well, I know my PC's underp... : SiW73
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  hmmm, that site tells me I need AGP fast writes enabled, i thought that was bad. : cawcaw
  • no it's just unstable for some people, it lets the cpu talk directly to the gpu instead of going through ... : shotgun1
• it crashed my work computer. Stupid IBM's :( : redfive
• runs like a slideshow for me as well. G4 1.33ghz 768mb ram GF5200FX :( : roushimsx
• bit choppy here: P4 1.8ghz 1gig ram Geforce5200 : kevp
• Runs perfect on my 1800+ 9800 pro : shack_konto
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  Which asks the questions, is there going to be lower quality encodes? and is anyone going to convert the ... : railchu
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    And someone warm up the BitTorrent tracker : railchu
    • http://tracker.magshack.info/torrents.php : roushimsx
• The video is silky smooth on my 3200+, 1G RAM and AIW 9800 Pro in Windows Media Player Classic. Task M... : JPRacer
• Fine & smooth on XP 2400+, 512mb pc2700, R9800p, Win2K : MrLonghair
• This is super weird, the HL2 video runs beautiful and smooth, the fountain one is choppy as hell. Any ide... : d0gbert
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  Enabling Fastwrites in my bios fixed my chopiness issue AMD 1700+ 512MB RAM : jellystones1
  • WoW crashes for me with fastwrites enabled though , Athlon 64 + 6800gt : imperator

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  Let's call it "relative" high-definition. I don't think a 20 Mbps HD connection over the net is too real... : bounty838
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    OFF TOPIC: But why? Doesn't the info running from my HiDef Cable movie channels showing HD movies run ove... : kevp
    • Yes it is the same wire, but the bandwith provided is different. Partly because you are requesting unique... : angrytaxman
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  20 Mbps = MPEG2, 8 Mbps = WMV-MPEG4 They both produce equivalent picutres, MPEG4 is more efficient. : SgtFritz
  • Found this: http://www.videohelp.com/comparison.htm : SgtFritz
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    Example: BMP vs. JPG, a BMP image isn't necessarily higher quality just because the file is way larger. : SgtFritz
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      That's not a very good example, bitmaps aren't ossy like jpeg, jpeg is never 100% quality. Now if you com... : Speedy8
      • ossy = lossy. : Speedy8
• Do we really need to waste that kind of bandwidth - a bit of compression won't kill you. : abrasion
• Still, this is better than having low resolution, high bitrate. I would rather have high resolution with ... : ovrlrd

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  Answer to 2nd question: A good amount of footage will be publically available but of course the extende : edgewise
  • NICE! lightning bolt! lightning bolt! : Jayx77
• Errr, I streamed both the sample videos just fine. The first one stuttered, but only because my CPU can't... : bigimp

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  I'd imagine they wouldn't go through all this and not have that planned. We'll probably find out soon. : Tincan
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    for sure they have it planned, I just wonder how terrible it's going to be :) : Luminair
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      Im afraid to guess. : Tincan
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        I bet it's genjuro. He's going to get angry and throw the camera at a booth babe or something. :( : cajuncook
        • That sounds more like Rosewood. : Tincan

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  I want footage taken through a rifle scope from a neighboring rooftop. : jvox
  • Then we can look down hot chicks tops! ... Oh wait. E3. Riiight. : crummynz

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  Not really, though you can do some things with mplayer if you're willing to use the binary W32 codecs. : Conan
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    hmm, I've got the latest version of the binary codecs and still no dice... so mac and linux people are... : -Panther-
    • Odd, I was able to play the fountain one with mplayer...does it crash, or just not recognize the file, or... : Conan

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  Since Steve doesn't have a time travel machine (yet!) you're gonna have to wait until E3 is actually happ... : Prozium
  • I'm so consumed by work these days I have no clue what is happening when. : persecutor
  • This is an outrage! There is no way I'm getting Mercury if he doesn't have footage yet! :P : crummynz

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• XXX : jvox
• Hot and Wet. : PenicillinX57
• I think you'll find they don't speak like that too much in real life, or they wouldn't be saying that kin... : abrasion

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  Steve's not "bringing" me... : Jack Mathews
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    you have four inch legs? : sixfoot6
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      It's not his leg that's four inches booyah : LeftE
      • Closed Captions for the humor impaired paid for by the unipod association of america -- for those who's f... : schnitz76

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• http://www.shacknews.com/latestchatty.x :) : geedeck

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  The 15th is when the new fileshack launches. : Prozium
  • perfect. ill sign back up then. TY sir. : tsteltz

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• I just want to know : VegasX
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  Its not film, its HD video. : MR 9000
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    uggh I know this. I wanna know what DV cam they are using. Filming is still "filming" even if its DV : VegasX
    • Don't get in this argument. I hand delivered my script to the media productions dept. of the local Univer... : dmason
    • *coughrumor* http://www.dvxuser.com/articles/HVX200/ *coughrumor* According to that article, regarding : LeftE

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• It is on fileshack. : jonin

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  Yeah, that's because you see every skin defect at that resolution. I read an article a year or two ago ab... : Conan
  • i dunno why not release some and let the consumers decide! : Shadowdane
  • They just need to update their makeup, sets, and lighting skills really. Sitcoms and talk shows also had... : alexthegreat2
• Yeah but they both come in shaky cam, and everyone here is raving about that, so it must be good! :-D : schnitz76
• I thought there was HD porn out there. :( : smackpiece
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  yes it does, if you know where to get it. : alexthegreat2
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    It was more of a rhetorical statement. : tomservo
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      does rhetorical mean wrong? : carnivore
      • Rhetoric - 3b. Language that is elaborate, pretentious, insincere, or intellectually vacuous : intothefray