Download Battlestar Galactica

[James Fee]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.makeyougohmm.com/pivotblg/entry.php?id=1545' target='_blank'>http://www.makeyougohmm.com/pivotblg/entry.php?id=1545</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Battlestar Galactica's first episode "33", uncut and commercial free, is <a href="http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/">legally available on line</a> in Real format, but fortunately netizens can use Real Alternative on Windows, notes Chris Curtis, "SciFi.com is making the first episode of the very excellent new Battlestar Galactica series available online. In fact, the episode (titled "33" and one of my favorite of the series so far) is available completely uncut and commercial free. Plus, there are four deleted scenes!". I think it's great to see one channel on TV (SciFi.com) using online as a legal distribution method. Just imagine the marketing power of putting that DVD extras stuff online for the fans. Heck, get the crew to blog the show. The alternative is to be greedy where most the people who don't want to buy the DVD will just PVR/TiVo it anyway."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/bsg.jpg" /><br /><br />I'd love to see more of this, so download away to show SciFi.com how important this is. 8) Oh and don't forget to email them to offer WMV!

[Jason Dunn]

It's funny, I was keen on watching the new series until I was 20 minutes into the first episode...and realized it was a continuation from the mini-series, which I hadn't seen yet. Stupid. They should have re-aired the mini-series and pumped it as a precursor to watching the new series.

[Macguy59]

or Quicktime's .MOV :wink:

[James Fee]

or Quicktime's .MOV :wink:Sure, I'd go for that. I've always said there is no better format for movie trailers than Quicktime. :D

[Daimhin]

They did air the mini series again a couple days before episode 1 of the series began. I remember my Tivo grabbing it and watching it the night before 33 and Water aired.

[bleeman]

Actually they aired the mini-series twice. Once before the first airing of 33 &amp; then the following Sunday where they aired a 6 hour "block" starting with the mini-series followed by a repeat of 33. We Tivoed it that Sunday so we'd have it all in one "chunk".

[Jason Dunn]

They did air the mini series again a couple days before episode 1 of the series began. I remember my Tivo grabbing it and watching it the night before 33 and Water aired.

Dang! I missed it. :-(

[Tim Williamson]

or Quicktime's .MOV :wink:Sure, I'd go for that. I've always said there is no better format for movie trailers than Quicktime. :D

Yeah...no better format...and no full screen unless you buy the full version is a HUGE plus! :roll:

P.S. I hate Quicktime. :evil:

[James Fee]

Yeah...no better format...and no full screen unless you buy the full version is a HUGE plus! :roll:I think you only need iTunes now.

[Macguy59]

or Quicktime's .MOV :wink:Sure, I'd go for that. I've always said there is no better format for movie trailers than Quicktime. :D

Yeah...no better format...and no full screen unless you buy the full version is a HUGE plus! :roll:

P.S. I hate Quicktime. :evil:

I have always been able to view trailers full screen when that option is offered but that's on one of my macs. Let me see on a PC . . . yep plays fullscreen on my PC to with the free version of QT. For reference I chose the Sky Captain trailer since I knew it had a fullscreen option.

[Tim Williamson]

I have always been able to view trailers full screen when that option is offered but that's on one of my macs. Let me see on a PC . . . yep plays fullscreen on my PC to with the free version of QT. For reference I chose the Sky Captain trailer since I knew it had a fullscreen option.

Hmm...maybe I'm a dummy... :wink: Exactly how do you go full screen on the PC with Quicktime (both with the stand-alone player and embedded)?

For example, on this (http://www.apple.com/trailers/focus_features/assault_on_precinct_13.html) page how do I make it fullscreen?

[Jason Dunn]

&lt;beep>&lt;beep>OVERKILL QUOTE ALERT!!!

:wink:

(I'm curious about the answer as well - I have the Pro version now that goes full screen, but I don't remember being able to do that with the free version...)

[Macguy59]

I have always been able to view trailers full screen when that option is offered but that's on one of my macs. Let me see on a PC . . . yep plays fullscreen on my PC to with the free version of QT. For reference I chose the Sky Captain trailer since I knew it had a fullscreen option.

Hmm...maybe I'm a dummy... :wink: Exactly how do you go full screen on the PC with Quicktime (both with the stand-alone player and embedded)?

For example, on this (http://www.apple.com/trailers/focus_features/assault_on_precinct_13.html) page how do I make it fullscreen?

I did say full screen when given that option on the trailers. I don't see full screen as an option for this one. So Jason when you go to trailer like this that plays in the browser window are you right-clicking on it to bring up a context menu that has full screen as an option? I get what your saying now t-will . . . you want to force it to play full screen and for that you may need the pro version.

[James Fee]

For example, on this (http://www.apple.com/trailers/focus_features/assault_on_precinct_13.html) page how do I make it fullscreen?Open up iTunes, then click on Movie Trailers on the left hand side. Find the movie you want to watch and click on Full Screen. All "new" movies have full screen. Older ones seem to only be "Large". I know some of them used to be full screen so I assume they stop that after a couple months of it being on the site.

[Tim Williamson]

iTunes is the last program I would install on my PC...

This is why I really like WMV, just double-click on an embedded video and it goes full screen. Why is Quicktime considered so great anyways...wouldn't a high bitrate WMV look just as good?

[James Fee]

iTunes is the last program I would install on my PC...
Well there you go. Most would say Real, but to each their own.

This is why I really like WMV, just double-click on an embedded video and it goes full screen. Why is Quicktime considered so great anyways...wouldn't a high bitrate WMV look just as good?I don't consider quicktime great at all, hence my "movie trailer" reference. Only Apple uses the thing anymore. In the first post of this thread I specifically asked everyone to email SciFi and tell them to offer WMV. I only joked about quicktime because someone said something about it. WMV is by far the best streaming video format right now IMO.

[Tim Williamson]

Well there you go. Most would say Real, but to each their own.

True, Real is my top least favorite media player. I think part of the reason I'm bitter towards Quicktime is because in Firefox and IE, more than once, I've had Quicktime take over the handling for wav and mp3 files.

[Perry Reed]

I'm not impressed. At risk of sounding like a whiner, the video isn't downloadable, only streamed (and at a pretty lousy bitrate at that), and there's a bug in their links (the link to the first deleted scene points to the full video).

In fact, the entire first season is available for download online, in high-quality video... if you know where to look.

That said, the new Battlestar Galactica is, by far, my favorite show on TV this year. I used to love the original series, as cheesy as it was. This one has no cheese and blows the original (and pretty much every other sci-fi show) away. IMHO, anyway.

[Diane Dumas]

Don't forget, they are also doing a weekly PODcast. The Podcast also has "beeps" when to pause if for a commercial.