Dear Site Admins,

Can you please provide higher rez downloads of films? I think your site is great but the small resolutions (even the broadband) offered do not provide a satisfactory viewing experience.

I want to be able to watch the films full screen and have them look good. I know it takes more bandwidth, but with all the advanced codecs out there, I'm sure you could think of something.

Filmmakers pay to have their films posted on the site; as such, they should be garaunteed that their films will look great to viewers (especially to industry viewers).

Once again, I think you guys really have something here, but please, up the resolution!

-Eric Becker
eric@thedigitalinitiative.com

P.S. Filmmakers please voice your support (or nonsupport) of this concept in a reply. Thank you!

You want to watch the movies fullscreen? Do you have any idea of the bandwidth costs that would entail, let alone how long it would take to download?????

Here's an easier option but you may not like it as it involves spending money.

Register Quicktime. Go on, you can do it. Spend the $20 or whatever it is.

Now not only can you now save said films to your HD, but then play them back in fullscreen.

"Mahri's Revenge" just looks so much better when it's being projected. :-)

Richard Purves
Living Film
http://www.livingfilm.co.uk/

i don't think atom films or ifilm have full screen options and they are the industry standard.

how about this idea... you can host your own movie and have it listed here for free IF it meets the same guidlines other go through AND the quality is determined to be high enough (i.e. quicktime, sorensen, better than or equal to the quality level of student-films compression)

i like it fine the way it is though

"...where wings take dream..."
- G. W. Bush

1)I own quicktime pro. I am asking for significant enough resolution to display fullscreen, as of now, it is not good enough.

2)It doesn't matter what atomfilms and ifilm are doing, we can lead the curve.

3)As I said, the bandwidth would not have to be exceptionally large, or large at all. Codecs exist to display full screen at resonable rates.

Please realize the good of what I am proposing here.

Yeah, so?

While there are undoubtedly video codecs out there that will compress highly without significant quality loss, how many of them are even reasonably well known?

Even DivX has to be boosted to about 1Mbit/s to get decent quality!

Then you've got the whole cross platform compatibility issues. Assuming you get a miracle codec that works wonders on a PC, you've just alienated a load of Mac users! Considering there's an awful lot of mac users who work with video ... need I say more?

Lastly (and I speak from experience on this one), video file sizes DO NOT scale linearly with resolution. Put simply, imagine a 320x240 film running at 5 minutes ... increase the resolution to 720x576 and watch as your file size quadruples or more.

I don't think Chris has the finances to turn to someone like Akamai to host the site.

Richard Purves
Living Film
http://www.livingfilm.co.uk/

if you can host it yourself for a demostration and everyone can view it easily then i'll beleive it's possible. i have not, as of yet, seen a full screen movie play in under 80 kilobytes per second and look like anything but random moving blurry squares.

"...where wings take dream..."
- G. W. Bush

I like the idea of large video, although i think full screen is way way out of the question. I have a broadband connection and I can usually intanstly start watching the movies. I would trade a bit of load time for any larger picture i could get. I would appreciate a bigger option, but i really don't think full screen i an option.

fullscreen? doooood please, double the current size would be an awfully big wish/request.

Well I think, as students and future filmmakers, that we should be getting a dvd each month with the new films. Internet films are so passé. Forget full resolution, I want a DVD, damnit!

Agree with ME by replying below.

Or, people with unreasonable requests could start their own full res site that charges filmmakers 79 bucks a year for hosting. iFilm, anyone?

This website is FINE the way it is......a FULL screen studentfilm would NOT look good and probably take FOREVER to download.

Though I do think maybe an addition of a somewhat "bigger" screen would be nice.....but then again I don't really care.

I agree with Joren though.

-TacoWagonProductions

"Kyle Johnson, definately my favortie of all. He is brilliant. Absolutely Brilliant!" - Kris Kimlin

I dunno if there's a good side to this. The movies really aren't done justice at such a small resolution, on the other hand, bigger resolution would be too costly. And I don't even care about download times, that's pretty much typically your own fault of not being able to upgrade to anything faster than 56K, where you're stuck with either long load times or smaller resolutions anyway. In any sense, I would like a way to see these films in a higher rez.

-Elliott

change your monitor or browser resolution

might not make it full screen, but mine was showing up kinda small, but when i watched it on campus computers the frame was larger, their setting were obviously different.. just mess with that and appreciate that we at least have a site like this

Although this is a reasonable thing to want, my guess would be that it would be inherently difficult or impossible to do, based on the resources available to the site and whatnot. Understand that unlike iFilm or Atom Films, this site is independent, and is run by only a few people who do it on their spare time.

If it were that easy, it probably would have been done a long time ago.

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http://www.jswfilms.com/

I think they should work on the site being a bit more reliable first.

I'm fine with the format.