[imc-auckland-video] FW: [Oceania-video] Democracy Now Downloadable Everyday In DVD Quality

[Geraldene Peters]

Anyone with the tech wherewithall to get the programmes and print on DVD?

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> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:58:31 +0530
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> Subject: [Oceania-video] Democracy Now Downloadable Everyday In DVD Quality
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> 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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