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MYoung
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Location: Madison, WI
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:51 pm Post subject: Movie Trailers on the PS3 |
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Perhaps I'm the last one on here with a PS3 to try this, but converting high def Quicktime movie trailers from Apple's movie trailer website to standard MPEG4s that the PS3 can play is pretty cool! I ended up buying Quicktime Pro so I could do it. I wasn't sure if there was a free way of doing it, but $30 didn't seem too bad for Quicktime Pro and its pretty streamlined method of downloading and exporting the Quicktime videos to the standard MPEG4 container. Now I just have to figure out if it's possible to create video playlists of trailers to play so you don't have to manually play them through the PS3's GUI.
So begins the mad grab of high def trailers! Unfortunately, the Grindhouse HD trailer, one I was really looking forward to playing, doesn't appear to be up anymore! I get a dead link when trying to play it. Bummer!
I really wish that movie studios would release ALL movie trailers in high def for download of ANYTHING they are releasing or have released on Blu-ray. It's free advertising for them, aside from hosting them for download!
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ecrabb
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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Welcome to the club, Mike! We definitely talked about this in a couple of other PS3 threads... Pretty neat to be able to grab some super-nice 1080p trailers off Apple's site, remove the QT wrapper, and throw them on the PS3! Some of those trailers look REALLY nice - almost BD quality in some cases. I wish the audio were better, though. That's one area most of them seem to really fall flat. Most are stereo, but even those with surround sound are very flat and lifeless compared to better sources. The audio must be compressed to within an inch of its life.
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MYoung
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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Indeed! There are LOTS of trailers on there! My hat is off to Apple for making that available with such a nice interface, and I'm a PC! Okay, so granted it helps them push Quicktime (which I generally loathe) and gets some people to cough up $30 for Quicktime Pro. Lesser of two evils I guess. I can only imagine the cluster you know what that we'd have if Microsoft hosted trailers. They'd probably be WMVs, DRMed to the hilt, with Windows logo watermarks and a crumby Windows Live-esque puke interface.
Yeah, I did notice the inconsistent audio and generally poor audio quality. The levels seem to be all over the map too. The ones I watched were also pretty bassy.
Again, I'm probably stating the obvious again, but I see that while there's no video playlist feature on the PS3, at least not yet, they did add a sequential playback feature. You can throw trailers on a flash drive, enable sequential playback under video settings on the PS3, and play all the trailers back in sequence. I guess that's tolerable in lieu of a true playlist feature for videos. They should definitely add video playlists though! Come on Sony!
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Mr. Green
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You could try this...
http://www.moviecodec.com/topics/5895p1.html
Haven't used it myself. I just download trailers from the playstation store as they become available.
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MYoung
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I found Yahoo Movies to be an even better source for trailers than Apple. I still use Quicktime Pro to change the video container to MP4.
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garyfritz
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It's been a while since I looked, but can't you download trailers straight from the Sony PS3 site with your PS3?
I had to quit doing that, though. The trailers are all for new movies that I can't rent, and then my kids bug me to go see it at the movie theater...
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ecrabb
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| garyfritz wrote: | | It's been a while since I looked, but can't you download trailers straight from the Sony PS3 site with your PS3? |
Yeah, you can - as long as you don't mind watching the same 9 trailers over and over for months on end. 
I don't know what Sony's problem is, but they just don't keep that section of the store updated. I'm not exaggerating when I say there are less than a dozen trailers and that you can go a month or more and the trailers won't change. Maybe one or two new trailers will pop up in a month or more.
The trailers are also very difficult to find now since they updated the Playstation Store last winter. They're not where you think they'd be.
I did notice with the last few 1080p trailers I downloaded from Apple, that a lot more of them had 5.1 sound tracks, even if they were heavily compressed AAC. Last fall when I downloaded a bunch of them, most were stereo.
Didn't even know about Yahoo. I'll have to check that out.
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