Re: At last! (more on the 8Mb speeds)
- From: Steve Firth <%steve%@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:04:46 +0100
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:57:09 +0100, Andy Hewitt wrote:
Steve Firth <%steve%@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 11:32:41 +0100, Andy Hewitt wrote:
I'm currently downloading three movies, each at 40KB/s (I believe this
is all you can get out of this site anyway
No, you're simply connecting at a busy period. Try to connect when the
merkins are asleep. I regularly get 500kB/s downloads from that site.
It's hard to do with a 3.1GB file that needs 20 hours.
Jings, what are you trying to download? Largest that I've seen so far has
been 1.8GB.
Mmmmmm Radar Men from The Moon.
No, no, no, you know you really don't need that ;-)
Already got it, all 12 episodes.
If you read how they digitise the film, there's not a lot of point in
downloading their bizarre 720x480 mpeg format. They digitise at 480x480
then software interpolate and (IMO) overcompress the image. The 320x240
Quicktime/MP4 movies look as good on screen as the MPEGs. I use DivX to
interpolate from 420x240 to 720x576 and the movies produced look OK when
viewed on a 28" TV.
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