I found some Sin City HD footage on the net here:
http://www.3oh5.com/

Post some cool HD stuff here

Hmm. Was expecting something higher than 480p.

Apple and Microsoft hav eome decent trailers. The apple website also offers some of the new trailers in HD - I have found some good ones. Here's Superman Returns.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/supermanreturns/hd/

I know a few adult companies have hd porn online as well, but maybe that's better off left for the adult forum.

I would like to find some time lapse footage in HD if anyone knows of a good place.

The perpetually-delayed Chronos HD DVD will have plenty. It's an Imax feature dedicated to time lapse footage.

I have Sin City in 720p and it looks great....

I'd love to know how the hell to watch the apple trailers in 1080p. If i click 720p it works ok. 1080p I will click and nothing happens.

How did it work with 720p?

For me, I'm using the latest k-lite codec pack that includes quicktime alternative plugins and media player classic to play them.

When I download HD trailers from Apple, I'm always prompted with a wizard - something like - "download and play" -> "rename hd files?" -> downloading, etc. Is that what everyone else gets? And the 1080p link seemed to work fine just now.

I actually have that in HD that I captured it's pretty sweet.

I just put an HD component out capable card in an extra PC and hooked it up to my HDTV. The Apple HD trailers play perfectly in 720p but the 1080p is real choppy. What are the resource requirements for a PC to play HD?

There recommended requirements from MS are here.

For 1080p they state:

- 3.0 GHz processor or equivalent
- 512 MB of RAM
- 128 MB video card

In my experience they are true playing VC-1 encoded discs/files. My HTPC is pretty powerful (easily meets the requirements) and plays them fine. But another PC of mine (2.4 GHz and 2 GB RAM) is very choppy at 1080p (and fine at 720p).

This also seems true with apple's H.264 codec. Playing HD material can be very processor intensive.

Sometimes, you have to click it twice for some reason.

I've clicked it 12 times. Nothing happens. My PC meets all the specs there.

For some reason, i get nothing on 1080p.

Edit: ok scratch that. Alluvasudden it's working now.

Now I just have to figure out how to burn them to DVD as an HD DVD.

I don't think it's possible.

Apple's trailers are encoded in AVC, which the HD-DVD players won't play. You'd have to decode (ignoring legalties), then re-encode in VC-1. Are there even any VC-1 encoders available?

Or you could decode and then re-encode to MPEG-2... But I don't think there are any HD-DVD authoring softwares available are there?

Oh yeah. Ulead has one. People have been doing it a TON over on AVS.

Oh that is cool. Man, stuff like this is making it harder and harder to wait until generation 2 (not that I can find a player at a Best Buy here anyhow).

I currently use a HTPC to time-shift/archive HDTV, so if I could burn them on a DVD and play at HD in the Toshiba... that would be sweet. I'll have to look at this.

Well...the reality of the situation is that 1 DL discs will only fit 1 hour of footage...so you're back to laserdisc with changing discs. But it's still cool if you wanted to put together a demo disc, which is what I'm trying to do.

I take it then that the Ulead software only encodes MPEG-2?

If we could get VC-1 authoring tools, now that would be sweet.

Yeah, that's what mine is doing right now. Can't wait to see the results.

Unfortunately, it will only be BD-like quality but I guess it's better than nothing.

I just have to figure out how to convert a 5.1 AAC file to AC3.

Here are the specific directions, if you're interested.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...&&#post7936017

Thanks. It looks like the processor speed is my problem.

Man, to be honest, I don't even know what resolution my monitor outputs at. It's a Princeton LCD that I bought within the last two months. I watched the hi-def Superman trailers on Warner's website, and they looked great, so I'm sure it does some kind of HD, but I don't know how high it actually goes.

Google the model number and I'm sure you'll find that info.

Man...

I just burned an HD DVD with the Cars teaser, Madonna's performance at the Grammys and the first 20 minutes of Revenge of the Sith.

W......O......W....

You burned an actual HD-DVD or a DVD with HD content on it?