Xbox 360 High-Def Footage

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• P.S. The videos look great. :) : fechols
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  heh I was an op on #quake efnet for years. That's how I met steve and became friends with him when he hel... : armybob
  • i wonder if any remembers or was in Clan Lagitus. I used to be in that clan back in the good old days. : eb9k
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    oh no plz not frag.com!! zyfly was the devil! : flasher 907
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      yes he was. He stole the domain from me : armybob
      • wow u too, welcome to the club. : flasher 907
  • Yep i was a #Quake op too : Ziz
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  I've known since you were a toddler that you'd want to give sTeve your money for fun. : sHugamom
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  I thought it was pretty meh until the last 15 seconds or so. Then it all became awesome. : Judecca
  • I mean 40 seconds. : Judecca
• Lol. They used the "YYUUUUAAAARRRGGHH!" soundbyte. : Popedispencer
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  Weird colours. People complained about the coloured lighting of Unreal 1, but this is way weirder. Ghostl... : GreatGooglyMoogly
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    This was something else; color lost in the process of digitizing or when filming. I mean, at a certain po... : rorshack
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      Good point, could be, aye. I'll reserve final judgement. Then again, Raven made this so... (: : GreatGooglyMoogly
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        Yeah: http://www.doom3world.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=10559 : rorshack
        • Wow, that's both hilarious and sad at the same time. Thanks for the clearing-upping. : GreatGooglyMoogly
• Man as a long time Quake fan, this doesn't excite me at all :( : stonedonkey
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  that big two-legged walker thing seems poorly animated or something. looks like it would fall over in th... : jvox
  • Yeah I agree, the walker is pretty terrible. Everything else looks ok, although the framerate seemed bad ... : ukiimail

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• Gowd, next time READ before posting crap... I didnt know that the KZ demo was prerendered...wtf? I tho... : buzzfunk

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  I would rather have xvid stuff. Its royalty free and works well on all platforms. : MONGOLOID
  • ok maybe i've installed xvid wrong... i went to the site and downloaded the mac osx component... i dro... : tymetodie
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  try with VLC or MPC : moshman
  • vlc doesn't decode wmv, and where the F do i find a MPC for mac? i've googled it and can't find anything.... : tymetodie
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    the latest version of vlc, .8 or something, only plays certain WMV-- unfortunately not the one's shacknew... : tymetodie
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      Yeah it wont play WMV9. My powerbook has the same problem and its one of the newer, slightly faster ones.... : xenoeye
      • bleh... atleast you have the PC option! =( oh well.. the low-def videos come w/ the hi-def teasers.. s... : tymetodie
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      0.81 plays them fine for me..did they take that out in 0.82? If so I'm not upgrading. :p : o0JediBeavis0o
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        how is it running fine for you? i'm using .8.1 this is the error i get (i've even switched the defa... : tymetodie
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          Well I'm running it right now on an XP box, but I'll check it out when I get home to see if it works on m... : o0JediBeavis0o
          • Works for me too on a clean Windows XP with no other codecs installed. : SilverSnake
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  dammit this SUCKS. I resisted temptation to sign up for mercury, but I signed up anyway just to be abl... : tymetodie
  • Weird... I get ~550 (my max) from NYC and I'm in Montreal... : bigimp
  • I too am only seeing 180k/sec at best from the San Jose server, whereas during the tests a couple weeks b... : anonimo
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  According to Apple (in their HD website), you need a G5 to view the big HD videos, and I think the shack ... : ErneX
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    Steve's earlier samples did not run in WMP9 on my G5, either. It has to be a WMP thing. Both the G5 and t... : BulletPro
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      Thats because you have an optimized player. Not that hard to figure out that a WINDOWS media format migh... : rosewood
      • good thing you are not condescending or anything. : esad
    • Yeah, I guess this applies for the Quicktime H.264 videos. Obviously Windows Media Player on Mac isn't... : ErneX
• This post convinced me not to sign up for Mercury. I realize that QuickTime isn't out for Windows yet, bu... : Hobeaux

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  i have to agree. I've never tried mercury till now, but it was definately worth it just for these vids. : afrochops
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    The resolution of these things stretches past my Windows resolution. I have to Alt+Enter to see it withou... : tomservo
    • what? Heaps of porn is being shot in HD nowadays : filthysock
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      You must not have any HDTV experiance then. 720p (1280x720) is low res for HDTV :) I like watching the m... : Devistater
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        HDTV movie channels are just showing DVDs upscaled to 1080i. See Discovery HD Theater for a true HD ex... : Turd Ferguson
        • I watched Shrek2 on HBO-HD last night, and I swear, it had to be HD source material. It looked better tha... : kevp
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          You must be watching crap channels then. You CAN tell the differance with dvd source or hdtv source. And ... : Devistater
          • hahahaha : kevp
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            Most of what I watch on and HBO and Stars HD channels just looks like DVD scaled up to HD res. Some se... : Turd Ferguson
            • All of the Disney properties (Miramax, Touchstone, Hollywood, etc.) shown on Starz that were released pos : anonimo
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        Isn't 1080i just 540p....? So 720p is better resolution... : land
        • no : fishbone
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          720p needs more bandwidth but 1080i is still a higher resolution. It's like running a higher resolution a... : xenoeye
          • I'm pretty sure 1080i needs more bandwidth than 720p : alexthegreat2
• im signing up because of this post. : mystifier
• Yup totally agree, Steve and the guys have definitely pushed the boundries with this, I'm loving this cov... : Scotty22
• Definite kudos to the whole Shack team, they really delivered. : darcspeed

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• me too i hope thats not just the way it looks hehe : imperator
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  It's obviously not like that. Even humans (at the beginning of the video) are blue. Looks like red was... : rorshack
  • Too bad it's still Quake 4...im not at all impressed. : nf0r
• Yeah we're aware, as soon as Steve and Co are back around that'll get fixed. : Carnivac
• a lonk to a fixed version has been posted. Looks good too. : Old_Fart
• lonk = link : Old_Fart

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  it's all coming man. it's amazing how accomodating all the devs and publishers were when they heard we we... : Steve Gibson
  • I would hope that MS at least would be VERY accomodating, given that it's "the HD era" and all. : freshview
  • w o o t ! ! : SlamDunk
  • I signed up for mercury just for this. So it is working. : wykd
  • That's very cool. I hope we get some good Nintendo footage, too - even if they aren't showing off much HD... : Conan
  • I think I love you, so what am I so afraid of : red2lucas
  • Worth every penny. The quality difference is amazing. Nice work. : brickmatt
  • Name the time and hotel room, and I'll be right over. : sgtsanity
• I just like to add how awesome you guys are :) : SlamDunk
• Can't wait to watch it again :) : nf0r

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• This would be seriously kickass. :) : SilverSnake
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  gamespot got them, stream is free : shack_konto
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    Very low res, i would love to download the whole package as HiDef! : -TKF-
    • yeah we talked about doing that.. it would be about 3gigs for the microsoft show and honestly it was real... : Steve Gibson

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• I'm at about 3200kb/s. Glad I'm at work. : djustifier
• 950 KB/sec last night from San Jose = pure fucking sex! : Jayx77

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  Even when you have Mercury you have to do it one at a time? I feel for you =( : famine101
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    no you don't. You can download from as many locations as you want just not 2 files from the same locatio... : Turd Ferguson
    • I did just that on Sunday from the San Jose server... click lose your place in line and wait for new... : Jayx77
• just use more then one mirror. : mr wolf
• Simply choose different locations to download from, you can download from one location at a time basicall... : shotgun1

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• lol you serious? : VegasX
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  Hay guys, my name is Steve Gibson and i'm one of a hundred different news outlets that wants to plug into... : o0JediBeavis0o
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    And I thought this was the Hi def exclusive site. I paid the money just to d/l these films and they are p... : Devistater
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      You do realize that E3 really hasn't kicked off yet right? You'll get a ton of direct feed stuff probabl... : o0JediBeavis0o
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        Ok I'll accept that. If I can get direct feed stuff from E3 I'll be happy even if these pre-show things a... : Devistater
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          You've got to admit that whoever's filming has got pretty steady hands. :D I've seen shakey cam footage ... : o0JediBeavis0o
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            I don't know where ign is getting their video from, but their vids, even the masterbit doa4 trailer, is g... : 12321123
            • I still want to see HD footage of the UT2007 demo for the PS3. I downloaded a blocky & grainy version of... : o0JediBeavis0o
          • haha, ever heard of a tripod? : emocore
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      Is the montage footage the same as the seperates? : xenoeye
      • gogo super misreply ^_^ keekeke. : xenoeye
      • the montage video is mostly short portions of the separates, theres more in the separates. : 12321123
  • Are there camcorders out there that have Component inputs on them? : stgdz
• Because that was a press conference, you can't have direct feed here. Wait for e3 to begins and you'll ge... : JPRacer
• Why don't Microsoft just give us the goddamn video files they're playing in the first place. :-| It's not... : nudel
• dude... seriously.. wtf? : El Tigre
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  If you're so disappointed, go find a better website. In the meantime, everybody else except you apprecia... : Ride-My-Rocket
  • What they are doing for you? Take it easy buddy they are just doing what they are getting payed/make mon... : PSYCHON
• It is not a stupid question. To be fair, the advertising is for HD videos, it doesn't say anything about ... : sharpie

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  I doubt he had a choice. It was either that or no footage I imagine. : mr wolf
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    Seems more like an oversight; they didn't notice how big those few seconds of HD video are, compared to t... : roggor
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      no, its pretty much intentional : Maarten Goldstein
      • LOL - shackers are getting treated for those of us unfortunate of not going and we are complaining about ... : X Fuzion

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• Yeah, Thanks guys! This is awesome! there is now no need for me to go anywhere else for my E3 info. : Stoned Gargoyle

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• Just to be clear, my problem isn't with the HD videos, but with the fact that the small low res file come... : rorshack

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  yes it stutters on my old computer a 1.7ghz P4, I think minimum needed is around a 2.2 or 2.4ghz system t... : Shadowdane
  • whew, glad i asked before purchasing, thanks : fishbone
  • my old 1800+ plays em just fine... : Piotyr
  • 1.8P4, 1 gig ram, Geforec 5200 and plays a little choppy, but mostly OK here win2000, btw : kevp
• http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/content_provider/film/AboutHDVideo.aspx then click on "S... : tsteltz

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• IAWTP. More shenanigans. : smackpiece

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• that was with the old speakeasy tho :( : packav

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  Errr... how will compressing the videos solve any of your problems, exactly? They'll still be .wmv files ... : bigimp
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    eh... read his post again : OrkO
    • Oh, heh. He does NOT want them zipped. In that case, I agree. : bigimp
• I agree. It would be nice if future videos weren't zipped. : pyrogen
• This man is right. You guys could end up sparing bandwith. And users get serviced better. I say it's a wi... : [7]kami
• Upgrade to mercury. The HD ones are not zipped. : malevolence
• If they're not zipped, they can't bundle in the HD teaser and the readme to incent you to subscribe to Me... : sinistarfith

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  ewww god no.. : g0nk
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    I dunno, I'm not really to keen on the fact that I can't download more than one thing from fileshack at a... : Vincent Grayson
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      That's a bug that I emailed Steve about maybe one year ago and he said he'd fix it. Kinda sucks that it's... : bigimp
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        um, you can download 1 file from EACH SERVER at a time. i downloaded like 4 or 5 of these vids simultane... : dopefish
        • yeah but thats not what hes asking. The point of local servers is that we get the best speeds from them. ... : tsteltz
    • wtf?! i can no prob, just select a diffrent server for each.. i had 8 of them going at once this morning.... : g0nk
• Umm, why would I want to use bittorrent as a Mercury user if it takes me a couple of minutes to download ... : bigimp
• BT is pointless for a site like Shacknews that has no problem providing high-speed bandwidth for a few th... : skruff

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• a lot of the PS3 stuff is clearly pre-rendered though.. will have to wait until Sony actually shows so... : Shadowdane

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• the lowres Gears of War video includes an HD sample : Maarten Goldstein

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  if its in game then i soooooo agree with this post : klearlyunseen
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    they claim it to be , obviously its very "constructed" and doesn't portray actual gameplay. But they clai... : imperator
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      Remember they have a vested interest in discouraging people from buying into the 360 though. It is not un... : bargeld
      • Oh i know , it's stille nice artwork though =). There's way more actual gameplay footage out for the 360. : imperator
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  what you saw was cgi dude... sorry... : Iscariot47
  • you have no credibility! why should we trust j00! : mystifier

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  Well - I just gave you $7 for these so they better not suck : rosewood
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    7 bucks? you got ripped off, i only had to pay 6.95... post job-interview relief made me do it : buzzbat
    • at that was supposed to be sample not spoiler : buzzbat

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• yup! <3 Shack! : g0nk

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• I've noticed that too... ShackCam™ > direct feed :D : SlamDunk

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  yeah maarten is wrapping up rendering those right now... they should be uploading in the next hour or les... : Steve Gibson
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    thanks awesome - sorry i'm just broke. :-\ : rossimo
    • same :< : AMikaboshi
    • Wonder if we should start some kind of sponsoring scheme... : thaperfectdrug
  • Upload Oblivion stuff first. : hellspit
• 2nd'd, bring on the lowdef!! : AMikaboshi

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• New stuff this is from the Xbox Press event last night. : Crimsonbeak

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  what camera did you use btw? : VegasX
  • You can see the box for a Sony HDR-FX1 in one of the moblog shots so I'm assume its one of those. : Dingbat

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• Waiting for this is the only reason I stayed up :< : hellspit
• Seconded. Hope there's one up soon. : h0rus
• It's here: http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=7003 : bigimp