E3 2004 Video - Better Quality

[Burning Fish]

I was out to buy the german PC Games-magazine to learn more about CS Source and getting a better quality of the video. Accidentaly I bought the June-edition, which was an E3-special. The included DVD had a better quality-version (almost DVD) of the E3 2004 video. I watched it and I even noticed some things I never saw before. Screenshots included.

Look at glass.jpg. I never noticed the nice effect. And in picture.jpg I noticed a photo. Maybe someone else noticed this before.
Also in the second strider-part I saw something new. There are two striders and after a while one of them starts running back to the street, where he continues his shooting at an unseeable target. The animation looked like a running spider, absolutely amazing to watch. At the moment I'm busy converting the DVD-movie to DivX 2000kbps.

[EDIT]
Sound is a bit better too. I never hearded women scream in the strider-part

 

[Axyon]

Wow, very nice. This needs to be distributed.

 

[Mr-Fusion]

Yes, considering Valve will ass about for another few months trying to get the BINK's released.

Distribute!

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Yeah, I'm really waiting for the binks but this could be great, I want to see the lipsync on the guys at the trainstation and the apartments coz the Quicktime is too poor quality.

 

[brisck1]

wow do it!! These look much much higher quality! just make sure it doesnt looses anyting in the decode from DVD to divx

 

[Burning Fish]

The lipsynch on Father Gregory looked very good too. I'll let you know how big the file will be after the ripping is done.

 

[Crusader]

Awesomeness *dances*

Some of them could be mistaken for photos ^^

 

[The Dark Elf]

very nice

 

[vicefredav444]

wow, nice.....i must have it

 

[Mechagodzilla]

Can someone use this enhanced vid to figure out what trashcan-man is?

 

[Brian Damage]

Glass.jpg looks almost real...

 

[clarky003]

Awesomeness *dances*

Some of them could be mistaken for photos ^^

not quite, I cant see the aliasing lines yet unless they had AA on in the E3 2k4 vids?

 

[DeltaBlast]

yeah, is it a man in the trashcan or what?

 

[Murray_H]

Can you check wether there is a guy in a bin in the train station.....?

 

[KagePrototype]

Ooh, that's purdy.

 

[Burning Fish]

Can you check wether there is a guy in a bin in the train station.....?

Which area exactly?

 

[Axyon]

not quite, I cant see the aliasing lines yet unless they had AA on in the E3 2k4 vids?

I dunno, it's still a compressed size. There are parts in the crane scene that lead me to believe that AA was off or on a low setting.

 

[Whezzy]

how you gonna host?

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

Must have videoooo........

 

[Murray_H]

how you gonna host?

/me whistles three times and watches pendragon come over the hills on his magic carpet

 

[Crusader]

Yes, I clearly said it looks precisely like a photograph.

 

[Hazar]

oooo

nice!

distribute asap!

 

[clarky003]

I dunno, it's still a compressed size. There are parts in the crane scene that lead me to believe that AA was off or on a low setting.

yeh ,, it'll be intresting to see when the binks arrive.

 

[AcousticToad]

If its gonna be DivX, has anyone got a link to the old DivX player that doesn't include that Gain Gator spyware crap, i just had to format because of that.

Looking forward to the vid.

 

[Play4Fun]

nicccce..

 

[Murray_H]

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=26404

it's just before gordon walks into the cage thing

 

[MagnumPI]

wow this looks great, i was a bit dissapointed with the gamespy one cos of the quality, but this looks set to wipe away those blues! finally we can put to rest the bin-man issue!

-Jim

 

[DeltaBlast]

Which area exactly?

When just arrived at the station, when walking into the fenced area (just look for a trashcan in the lower left corner)

http://www.darkbulb.com/maninbin.mov 4mb mov of the scene

 

[DeltaBlast]

If its gonna be DivX, has anyone got a link to the old DivX player that doesn't include that Gain Gator spyware crap, i just had to format because of that.

Looking forward to the vid.

http://download.divx.com/divx/DivX511.exe (without the adware)

 

[kaf11]

this video will be cool, but i hate having to keep the uncompressed version of the gamespy video on my machine b/c its too big to burn to cd. this one will cause the same problem. my compressed e3 2k4 video always freezes when i try to run it from its cd.

 

[Crusader]

This just poses a question to me... What the hell is taking so long in getting the binks out?

It's like they're aiming to gradually increment the video quality by a couple of pixels a week until the game comes out ^^

 

[coleslawjoe]

... and after we all spend 12 hours downloading this movie from the same server at 3kb/s, you just know they will release the binks.

 

[SSJ4Vegita2002]

I'm almost positive that is a person in the trashcan...I don't know what else it could be. maybe it is just a civilian who doesn't want to go where the combine want him, so he's hiding in there. Very strange. We probably wont know until the game comes out. But maybe if it is, we can knock over the trash can and expose him and get him in trouble, LOL.

 

[Synthaxx R-or]

Must...have...

Someone upload it somewhere allready, or put up a torrent or something.

I needs it!

 

[Mr-Fusion]

... and after we all spend 12 hours downloading this movie from the same server at 3kb/s, you just know they will release the binks.

That would really yank my crank!!!

 

[DeltaBlast]

I'm almost positive that is a person in the trashcan...I don't know what else it could be. maybe it is just a civilian who doesn't want to go where the combine want him, so he's hiding in there. Very strange. We probably wont know until the game comes out. But maybe if it is, we can knock over the trash can and expose him and get him in trouble, LOL.

If it IS an easter egg, I doubt it will be in the final game.

 

[Burning Fish]

I watched it and I think I know which bin you mean. There's absolutely nothing in it. Just a bit of reflection.

 

[clarky003]

thats so much clearer,, thats part of the bin.. lol, its not a person atall or a picture. nice pics

is that the G-man, or administrator in the background of the middle of the second picture :O, in the glass doorway? just to the right of the Breen display. certainly looks like a person.. a civilian?

 

[Burning Fish]

I saw that too. You see the person in the beginning too and he/she looked a bit like Alyx to me.

 

[clarky003]

hmm. yeh certainly intresting.. I cant wait for the binks,. but this seems like its excellent quality.