Finding High Quality Videos from E3?

Alec T asks: "Seeing how E3 is fast approaching, I was wondering where Slashdot readers go for their E3 fix? Gamespot, IGN and 1UP all provide free low quality streams and downloads, however we are reduced to having to pay to access high quality trailers and press conference screenings. Why is this? Is there a site out there which caters to our high definition needs? If bandwidth is such a concern, maybe BitTorrent would be the best distribution method, particularly for the console press conferences?"

Why...

[ZiakII]

Gamespot, IGN and 1UP all provide free low quality streams and downloads, however we are reduced to having to pay to access high quality trailers and press conference screenings. Why is this?

Profit, is the sole reason.

Re:Why...

[heinousjay]

Only on Slashdot is it considered insight to realize a company wants to make a profit. I would think that would be fairly obvious.

watch

[gerbalblaste]

If you have it G8 will have extensive coverage of e3

Re:watch

[Neeex]

Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, USA and Russia?

Re:watch

[gerbalblaste]

I'm wrong, i meant G4 tech tv. sry :/ can't type

I don't have it, you insensitive clod!

[tepples]

If you have it [G4] will have extensive coverage of e3

Likewise, if you have it Gamespot, IGN and 1UP will have extensive coverage of e3

But then we're back to the OP's problem. Where I live, G4 is not included with basic cable.

And they cant even do it properly

[Ekuryua]

And even the "HQ" videos are barely done with crappy camcorders... If they could use some proper HD cams to do their stuff it'd sure be more motivating.

Re:And they cant even do it properly

[DDLKermit007]

Dunno what the fuss is about high resolution vids (not like HD means jack shit anyways). It's eaisier to just go like I do every year :-P

Re:And they cant even do it properly

[eno2001]

Hear hear!! (or however that's spelled) Why on earth anyone would want videos from a convention, let alone HD videos is beyond me. It's one thing if you're a shut-in and CAN'T get out. It's another if your a pasty little gamer geek who is afraid of real people and won't get out. If that's the case then low fi is all you're worth. And if the company wants to rip you off by making you pay for content that is pointless (like magazines) then that's your own damn fault folks. HD itself is cool if you've g

Re:And they cant even do it properly

[minuszero]

"Hear hear!! (or however that's spelled)"

's correct. :)
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/178100.html [phrases.org.uk]

Check these out.

[Grey Ninja]

I usually end up resorting to bittorrent for the console press conferences, as you mentioned. I find that there's always SOME smaller news site that has a bittorrent link for those.

However, for actual gameplay footage, I usually find myself coming to these:
http://www.advancedmn.com/ [advancedmn.com] (WMV... uggh)
http://www.gametrailers.com/ [gametrailers.com] (WMV and QT. Better)

So yeah, I usually come to gametrailers for my E3 fix. Posting is prompt, and quality is usually good.

gametrailers.com = the way to go

[abandonment]

GameTrailers is the only place worth going for game videos. no 320x240 crappy encoding, they have all of the good videos, and if they don't have a specific video, they have a large community that can post any videos into their 'gametrailers tv' area...

Yikes

[The-Bus]

Well, my Xbox 360 said that it's the only place to turn of exciting E3 footage. Although something tells me I won't find any Metal Gear Solid information on it...

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Re:Microsoft really nailled it this time

[DarkJC]

How is that great marketing? Great marketing to people who already have the system? Who is going to buy a 360 just to watch E3 trailers?

Re:Microsoft really nailled it this time

[KDR_11k]

At a later date I'd agree with you but currently the big problem of the XC is that it lacks the games to attract buyers in first place. The word needs to reach primarily those who don't own the console yet.

Also I doubt there will be much more available on the XC service that couldn't have been offered on e.g. the PC, the bigger issue will be that E3 demos are usually very incomplete so publishers won't want to release them to the public at large, only to the writers who are smart enough to realize that prev

Re:Microsoft really nailled it this time

[animejoe]

Where in the heck did we get "XC"? "XC" = Xbox Console, or Xbox 360 Console? Man, there are enough acronyms and abbreviations floating around out there, do we need to coin new ones that don't make much sense? How hard is it to just use the ones that are already out there or stick to the product's full name? That said, I'd agree that MS needs to reach those who don't own the console. But really, if you make an effort to keep your current customers happy, they'll go spread the word elsewhere.

Re:Microsoft really nailled it this time

[KDR_11k]

XCircle (also C comes after B). I'm annoyed that the name requires an abbreviation that's not much shorter than the full name and I think MS did that on purpose so the name is written everywhere. XC is much shorter to write or say.

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Re:Microsoft really nailled it this time

[Jarlsberg]

It really is brilliant. I read the reviews for the new Tomb Raider game a few days ago and wanted to check it out. It was right there in Xbox Marketplace, so I downloaded it and played it an hour or so later (the download speed is not that great, though, since I could easily have downloaded it in ten minutes if MS could download at my maximum connection speed).

Of course, we've had the ability to do this on the PC (and even on really old computers, like the C64, prior to that) for many, many years, but it'

Finid?

[Anonymous Coward]

I've never finided anything in my entire life, sorry.

Re:Finid?

[YU Nicks NE Way]

The correct spelling is founid, not finided. Didn't yu lern nothing back in elemtury skewl?

FileShack will have HD videos

[Neeex]

FileShack [fileshack.com], part of Shacknews [shacknews.com] are going to be filming the demos/trailers/videos with their HD camera, as they did last year.

They have a queue-based download system that's free, although queues will probably be pretty long during E3. I do believe, however, that the first month's subscription, allowing you to skip queues, costs $1.

Re:FileShack will have HD videos

[TroZ]

Actually, they will have 2 HD cameras there this year.
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?comments=42006 [shacknews.com]
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=12092759 [shacknews.com]

Their pre-E3 coverage page is already up:
http://www.shacknews.com/extras/e3_2006/ [shacknews.com]

Re:FileShack will have HD videos

[code-e255]

But will they be free, or will one have to pay for that Fileshack service to be able to get the high-def videos?

Finiding High Quality Videos?

[techmuse]

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Re: Finiding High Quality Videos?

[datafr0g]

Perhaps they need to finid a spell checker! :-)

Re: Finiding High Quality Videos?

[luder]

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Xbox 360

[SnprBoB86]

Xbox 360 related coverage will be available here on Microsoft's Xbox site [xbox.com]. I also believe that you will be able to download demos and videos via Xbox Live Marketplace directly from your 360.

Possible live E3 bloggings?

[ProppaT]

I don't know if they're doing it this year, but www.gamesarefun.com has done live blogging of major game press conferences in the past. They're a smaller site, but they're the first of the to cover a lot of these real time. Pretty nice for those of us who want to keep up on the news as it's happening, especially with big press conferences for the Wii and PS3 happening this year! If anyone knows of other sites doing this kind of live updates, spread the news!

If you have cable...

[Cyno01]

G4 will be covering E3 (you sunk my battleship!) live the whole week.

Virtual E3

[miyako]

I'm at a loss as to why someone or some group of large publishers hasn't set up some sort of virtual E3. The XBOX360's allowing users to download videos and demos is a huge step toward this- but it only really works for people who have a 360.
I can imagine some sort of Virtual E3- have some live streaming video of the various events, virtual booths where you can view game demos, maybe read interviews with developers and get high resolution screenshots. I think a lot of people would pay to have access to something like that as well. I can't really imagine a better situation. Millions of gamers who would sell their mothers to go to E3 pay publishers for the priviledge of watching a few hours of advertisements.
The only reason I can think why they might not do this is that to the game journalists, E3 is like christmas. I would imagine magazine and web subscriptions probably go up considerably around E3, and as E3 is really a press event, it might not do well to piss off the press by stealing their subscribers.

Gaming Horizon

[Asriel86]

Gaming Horizon [gaminghorizon.com] has partnered with DivX for E3 video coverage. They're offering everything for free, including high quality trailers and such. Everything's nicely integrated with the divx web player, or you can just download.

Re:Gaming Horizon

[bpd1069]

Game, Set, Match.

Re:Gaming Horizon

[wongn]

Gaming Horizons seems to sideline all their stuff to http://www.e3updates.com/ [e3updates.com]

Sin Episodes ...

[Hektor_Troy]

Am I the only one hoping to get high quality videos of these two booth babes [sinepisodes.com] going at it? *drools*

Fight for torrents. GS ppl post here.

[bunbuntheminilop]

Its funny that this was brought up as I had just posted a message on the Gamespot forums about wanting torrents.

I found a thread asking for them, and here is the address. If you want torrents at Gamespot, then post here!

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php ?topic_id=24302792 [gamespot.com]

Is DVD quality good enough?

[in5ane]

From:

http://www.e3insider.com/e3tv/ [e3insider.com]
"ETV - DVD-Quality Versions of E3Insider's Videos, Including the Press Events"

It sounds really neat actually, especially the subscription thing, where I'm hoping you can just leave it running grabbing videos automatically.

Insider

[straterpatrick]

I got IGN's insider access for E3 last year and have not been disappointed. It only cost 19.99 for a whole year and they have a lot of very high-res (Some HD) videos.

I would recommend it.

Hmm..

[LordVader717]

I may regret this, as the slashdot hoards might crash the servers, so nobody can enjoy it, but at Nintendo's E3 site [nintendo.com], they say that they'll have live coverage of the press conference.

Re:Finding High Quality Videos from E3?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ah, I see that you must be an IGN staff writer!

Fileplanet

[zerosix]

Forgive me if this has already been mentioned, but as far as trailers go, fileplanet has added an entire section just for E3. I have a subscription, but it seems in general the waiting aspect isn't too bad either...

http://www.fileplanet.com/trailers/ [fileplanet.com]