[Oceania-video] Democracy Now Downloadable Everyday In DVD Quality

[Nigel W]

Problem is downloading a 2.9GB file is not practicle
for most people. One thing we should consider doing
when we've got the time, is getting involved with
Melbourne Wireless -
<http://melbourne.wireless.org.au/> - then we can
offer large files for download to anyone with an
antenna! I was briefly involved with this group about
2 years ago but didn't have the time to really get
involved. It's something I hope to get back to soon
(Oh Gawd, how often have Y'All heard that! :)

                     All the best,
                               Nigel


 --- and <and at axxs.org> wrote: 
> This is pretty interesting
> 
> http://demandmedia.net/story/2005/3/21/55829/3158
>   Democracy Now!, an award winning, independently
> produced hour long 
> daily news program, has recently begun putting its
> shows online in 
> downloadable DVD quality MPEG2 format. I believe
> that makes it the 
> first show that appears on traditional TV to make
> itself available in 
> equal quality over the Internet as it is on
> broadcast TV (in the case 
> DVB satellite).
> 
> The hosting is provided by the Internet Archive,
> which also generates 
> lower quality VCD and MPEG4 quality files. The show
> airs at 8am EST, it 
> usually takes until about 3pm for the show to be
> uploaded, low quality 
> versions produced and made available. At this point
> about 2 weeks worth 
> of shows have been made available, you can browse
> through them in their 
> collection at the Internet Archive.
> 
> For those not familar with DN!, it is the premier
> broadcast news source 
> for progressives and radicals in the US. The show
> airs on over 300 
> public TV, cable access, and radio stations as well
> as both consumer 
> satellite networks, DISH and DirecTV.
> 
> If you'd like to have the show delivered to your
> computer everyday, I 
> wrote a little scraper to produce RSS feeds with
> encosures for the 
> MPEG4, VCD, and DVD quality versions of the show.
> Typical file sizes of 
> the respective formats are 150MB for MPEG4, 250MB
> for VCD, and 2.9GB 
> for DVD. Of course, DN! already has a podcast feed
> for the audio 
> version of the show.
> 
> Earth to Tivo. Earth to PBS. The future is waiting
> for you but not for 
> much longer. 
> 
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