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    From mr.insister@mr.insister@nospam.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, April 08, 2006 12:40:03
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    I'm thinking about downloading an episode or two of Battlestar Galactica
    from the iTunes store but it doesn't say anywhere what the format is.
    What is the format of these files? What would the approximate size of a
    50 minute TV show be? Can they be burned to DVD (VIDEO_TS) and played on
    a regular home DVD player? I don't have an ipod but wouldn't be
    interested in watching videos on them anyway.
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  • From Pez D Spencer@colecoadam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, April 08, 2006 12:46:21
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    it's a quicktime format based on mpeg-4.

    you cannot burn these movies from itunes to watch on a dvd player with
    the itunes software.

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  • From zwsdotcom@zwsdotcom@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, April 08, 2006 13:10:08
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    Pez D Spencer wrote:

    you cannot burn these movies from itunes to watch on a dvd player with
    the itunes software.

    Can you play downloaded movies fullscreen with iTunes?

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  • From nonesuch@nonesuch@place.com (Adrian) to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, April 08, 2006 21:14:18
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    <zwsdotcom@gmail.com> wrote:

    Can you play downloaded movies fullscreen with iTunes?

    Yes. (Though I do have Quicktime Pro ... I don't know if there is any difference with the unpaid for QT).

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    Adrian
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  • From Pez D Spencer@colecoadam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, April 08, 2006 13:35:20
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    Can you play downloaded movies fullscreen with iTunes?

    yup, there is a fullscreen function in itunes.

    unless you mean downloaded movies from another source (not itunes).
    there is a function to translate other types of movies into the format
    for the video ipod, and i think there is a function that imports and
    translates movies in other formats...but, i've never used it because i
    don't do that type of downloading.

    you used to need qt pro to do the translation, but i don't think that
    is the case anymore with itunes 6.

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  • From Jerry Kindall@jerrykindall@nospam.invalid to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, April 08, 2006 17:51:06
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    In article <1144527008.201798.190400@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>, <zwsdotcom@gmail.com> wrote:

    Pez D Spencer wrote:

    you cannot burn these movies from itunes to watch on a dvd player with
    the itunes software.

    Can you play downloaded movies fullscreen with iTunes?

    Yes, but as they are only QVGA, you don't want to.

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    Jerry Kindall, Seattle, WA <http://www.jerrykindall.com/>

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  • From zwsdotcom@zwsdotcom@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, April 08, 2006 17:58:38
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    Jerry Kindall wrote:

    Can you play downloaded movies fullscreen with iTunes?

    Yes, but as they are only QVGA, you don't want to.

    I was thinking of playing it on TV-out. VCD-quality (CIF) is only
    352x240 and that looks fine on TV.

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  • From Ilgaz Ocal@ilgaz_ocal@yahoo.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Sunday, April 09, 2006 05:14:40
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    On 2006-04-08 22:40:03 +0300, <mr.insister@nospam.com> said:

    I'm thinking about downloading an episode or two of Battlestar
    Galactica from the iTunes store but it doesn't say anywhere what the
    format is. What is the format of these files? What would the
    approximate size of a 50 minute TV show be? Can they be burned to DVD (VIDEO_TS) and played on a regular home DVD player? I don't have an
    ipod but wouldn't be interested in watching videos on them anyway.

    They are not even PAL or NTSC, they are fit to iPod screen
    (320xsomething), if you plan to watch them on a real TV, get suitable
    format.

    I don't say "pirate" of course.

    It is just too "low" for DVD even if you can burn legally which you can't.

    Ilgaz

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  • From 42@nospam@nospam.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Monday, April 10, 2006 18:22:25
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    In article <49r90bFq8qh7U1@individual.net>, ilgaz_ocal@yahoo.com says...

    It is just too "low" for DVD even if you can burn legally which you can't.

    By legally do you mean according to what Apple's software lets you do?

    Or according to a new law which I'm not aware of that lets apple
    prohibit you from backing up files you purchased that are stored on your
    hard drive to dvd?
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  • From Simon Slavin@slavins.delete.these.four.words@hearsay.demon.co.uk to comp.sys.mac.system on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 21:37:54
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    On 08/04/2006, zwsdotcom@gmail.com wrote in message <1144544318.633737.40260@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>:

    Jerry Kindall wrote:

    Can you play downloaded movies fullscreen with iTunes?

    Yes, but as they are only QVGA, you don't want to.

    I was thinking of playing it on TV-out. VCD-quality (CIF) is only
    352x240 and that looks fine on TV.

    The compression used for those programmes is not resolution-dependent:
    it's MPEG-4 or H.264 which uses a technology like fractal compression.
    They look extremely good when blown up to a larger size. A friend of mine showed an episode of _Lost_ on a normal sized TV at a normal distance away
    and reported that he could barely tell that it wasn't broadcast quality.

    This was done using the S-Video of a PowerBook, so no conversion to other formats was involved. This means, unfortunately, that it doesn't help
    answer the OP's question.

    Simon.
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    http://www.hearsay.demon.co.uk
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