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Hitchhiker's Guide Trailer Online 289

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @08:39AM from the stuff-to-see dept.

Jeremy Rayner writes "The 2005 Hitchhiker's movie trailer is available in AVI or RealMedia formats. The movie trailer doesn't reveal anything, but looks cool. Personally I'm looking forward to the new Radio 4 series in September for which you can hear an mp3 preview."

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Bandwidth the size of a planet... (Score:5, Funny)

by spoodie ( 641820 ) * writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @08:47AM (#9810687)

Trailers. Don't talk to me about trailers...

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- Re:Bandwidth the size of a planet... (Score:5, Funny)
  
  by Alranor ( 472986 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @08:55AM (#9810745)
  
  Something tells me their webserver's suddenly developed a terrible pain in all the diodes down its left hand side.
  
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  - Re:Bandwidth the size of a planet... (Score:5, Funny)
    
    by spellraiser ( 764337 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @08:59AM (#9810808) Journal
    
    Something tells me their webserver's suddenly developed a terrible pain in all the diodes down its left hand side.
    One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continuously stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear we seem to have slashdotted the server!
    
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    - Re:Bandwidth the size of a planet... (Score:3, Funny)
      
      by Alranor ( 472986 ) writes:
      
      Somewhere, in a server room (possibly in the vicinity of Betelgeuse)
      
      Techie: Oh, Belgium, Slashdot linked to us ...
    - Re:Bandwidth the size of a planet... (Score:5, Funny)
      
      by pjt33 ( 739471 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @09:16AM (#9810978)
      
      Has it ever been explained how he heard It's a nice day continually repeated while living in England?
      
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      - Re:Bandwidth the size of a planet... (Score:3, Funny)
        
        by i.r.id10t ( 595143 ) writes:
        
        Well, like Mel said in Braveheart - "At least the rain is falling straight down"
        
        Re:Bandwidth the size of a planet... (Score:2, Insightful)
        
        by Golias ( 176380 ) writes:
        
        Fellow Americans - vote this fall. I don't care who you vote for, but if you don't vote you aren't allowed to complain.
        I could not disagree more strongly. Please, if you are so inclined, feel free to execute your right to not vote. Especially if you are one of those people who got all their information for TV attack ads and Daily Show comedy skits, and think you are expected to choose between "the lesser of two evils" in this election. Stay home and relax. An uninformed vote does far more damage to the
        
        Re:Bandwidth the size of a planet... (Score:3, Insightful)
        
        by DLWormwood ( 154934 ) writes:
        
        Especially if you are one of those people who got all their information for TV attack ads and Daily Show comedy skits, and think you are expected to choose between "the lesser of two evils" in this election.
        Then protest vote. Vote Badnarik, or whoever represents the marginalized political party of your choice. (Two-party system be damned!) The beauty of it is that you can complain no matter who wins...
        "Hey, I didn't vote for him!"
        OR
        "Hey, I didn't actually expect him to win!"
        An uninformed vote does
    - Re:Bandwidth the size of a planet... (Score:2)
      
      by mikael ( 484 ) writes:
      
      "A brain the size of a planet, and all I'm doing is hosting online geek discussions".
  - Working Mirror (Score:3, Informative)
    
    by bobobobo ( 539853 ) writes:
    
    Although this was already "slashdotted" when it was first linked form aintitcool.com here is a working mirror [chud.com].
  - - Re:Bandwidth the size of a planet... (Score:2)
      
      by Ford Prefect ( 8777 ) writes:
      
      I think a rat (its only friend) crawled into its left leg and died.
      
      I have a horrible feeling it's still there.
- Re:Bandwidth the size of a planet... (Score:2)
  
  by blamanj ( 253811 ) writes:
  
  I suspect the reason the servers are dying is that they aren't "officially hosted." According to the movie blog [go.com], the trailer was released only on DVD to attendees of Comic-Con [comic-con.org] in San Diego.
As the web server crashed to the ground... (Score:5, Funny)

by ErikRed1488 ( 193622 ) writes: <erikdred1488@netscape.net> on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @08:49AM (#9810704) Journal

it thought, not this again. Some people think if we only knew what the poor web server meant, we'd have a greater understanding of the universe.

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Imagination (Score:5, Insightful)

by Kralizec ( 627733 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @08:50AM (#9810710)

The Hitchhiker story is so bizarre that I always found my imagination made the books much funnier than the radio drama and the TV show. I'm not sure how excited I am about the movie, since live action just can't seem to match the absurdities that the imagination seems to be able to grasp so well.

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- Comment removed (Score:4, Interesting)
  
  by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @09:12AM (#9810927)
  
  Comment removed based on user account deletion
  
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- Re:Imagination (Score:2, Interesting)
  
  by Anonymous Coward writes:
  
  I heard the radio series before the book was available. My whole schedule was twisted and warped so that I wouldn't miss a single minute. It was awesome. I also enjoyed the books. The TV show, on the other hand, was seriously lame.
  
  Radio leaves plenty of room for imagination.
  
  It isn't a given that any story will work better in any given medium. For instance Star Wars, the movie, totally blew me away when I first saw it. I'm not even remotely interested in reading the book.
- Re:Imagination (Score:2)
  
  by Rallion ( 711805 ) writes:
  
  Well, as for the TV show, it may have been unfunny because it just turned out really, really bad. Though I did actually enjoy the even-cheesy-at-the-time special effects for the guide, Trillian ruined that whole damn thing for me.
- Re:Imagination (Score:3, Insightful)
  
  by Illserve ( 56215 ) writes:
  
  I'm glad naysayers like yourself were overlooked when funding for movies like:
  
  LOTR
  Spiderman
  Xmen
  High Fidelity
  Fight Club
  
  were approved for funding.
  
  Yes, sometimes movie adaptations of books can fail miserably, but there are some stunning success stories, and I for one am glad that there are people with faith enough to see them through over the objections of people such as yourself.
Another site for information on the Radio Series (Score:5, Informative)

by Alranor ( 472986 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @08:52AM (#9810725)

Here [bbc.co.uk]

The original cast (unfortunately without the late Peter Jones), a cameo by Douglas Adams himself ..

And for those of you who aren't in the UK, you may appreciate knowing that Radio 4 make their programs available on their website [bbc.co.uk] for a week after the broadcast.

Unfortunately they're still in crappy real media format, but mplayer [mplayerhq.hu] deals with them fine.

About time too :) - i've been looking forward to these for a long time, they were originally due to begin airing in February of this year but some licensing issues with the movie delayed that.

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Zaphod (Score:2)

by mfh ( 56 ) writes:

Meet Zaphod Beeblebrox [imdb.com]. You can also go to Zaphod Beeblebrox, in Ottawa [zaphodbeeblebrox.com]. Fun trendy bar that used to be much better than it is.
Wonderful World (Score:5, Informative)

by NiceAndEasy ( 800316 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @08:58AM (#9810777)

Sentimental Trailer,
It's getting Slashdoted, so lets Spoil the Trailer:
Background music is (What A) Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong, and story is following lyrics from the music.
Blue stars, clouds, light/sun, then unzooming and showing our pretty little planet.
And then.... BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM, Earth exlodes!
Familiar title "DON'T PANIC" shows...
Good job :).

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- Re:Wonderful World (Score:5, Insightful)
  
  by Paulrothrock ( 685079 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @09:13AM (#9810949) Homepage Journal
  
  And then it goes into Men in Black music and looks like a friggin' action movie.
  I hope they're doing satire there. I'd hate for them to take this movie seriously. It's like doing "The Life of Brian" in Aramaic.
  Oh wait, they did that already. [imdb.com]
  
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  - Re:Wonderful World (Score:2)
    
    by ChuyMatt ( 318775 ) writes:
    
    I think that they are trying to get people to think that it is a serious movie, major fight scenes, incredible CG, and then... Marvin and Beblebrox. that or Have Ford in the elevator or something like that. Tip off the viewers that this is going to be freakin' hilarious right at the end of a real trailer.
  - Re:Wonderful World (Score:3, Insightful)
    
    by thatguywhoiam ( 524290 ) writes:
    
    And then it goes into Men in Black music and looks like a friggin' action movie.
    Except without any action. It's just a logo. That's why you are reminded of Men In Black, I think the trailer did something similar.
    I think it was appropriate here though - the Guide would certainly have a logo. The graphic style reminds me of some of the StarShip Titanic stuff.
  - Re:Wonderful World (Score:3, Insightful)
    
    by Angostura ( 703910 ) writes:
    
    Actually, I strongly disagree. I was really very glad to see the mock-serious nature of the trailer. Playing it straight is the best way to make it funny. Airplane!, Men In Black, whatever - the straighter it is played, the funnier it is in my opinion.
- Re:Wonderful World (Score:4, Informative)
  
  by andrew_0812 ( 592089 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @10:12AM (#9811749)
  
  Another link to the trailer. Get it while it's hot, it probably wont last long. It was posted in the IMDB boards, along with the request: "Please don't give this out."
  
  Oh Well...
  
  http://mtw.dramaciderecrods.net/HitchHikers_Guide_ teaser.avi [dramaciderecrods.net]
  
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Freecache? (Score:2)

by i.r.id10t ( 595143 ) writes:

I'm trying to use freecache to get the AVI version... but I keep getting redirected back to the real site. Anyone know why? Sorta thought that this is what freecache.org is for....
- Re:Freecache? (Score:2)
  
  by Halo1 ( 136547 ) writes:
  
  I noticed the same thing. Freecache mentions on its homepage that that they can exclude certain sites and files, but I'm not sure why they'd exclude this one. Maybe free.fr as a whole is excluded for some reason?
Well, (Score:3, Insightful)

by Stween ( 322349 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @08:59AM (#9810797)

That struck me as being more of a teaser than a trailer.

Oh well :)

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Tried to download the trailer... (Score:5, Funny)

by 1WingedAngel ( 575467 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @09:04AM (#9810852) Homepage

For a moment, nothing happened.

Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

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- Re:Tried to download the trailer... (Score:3, Insightful)
  
  by thatguywhoiam ( 524290 ) writes:
  
  For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
  Its brilliant lines like those that have lots of people worried about how this is going to translate into film.
  I mean, how exactly do you shoot 'gigantic yellow spaceships hanging in the sky in exactly the way that bricks don't.'
  At least the movie blog and credentials are promising. The Hammer and Tongs guys who are doing it are spoken of very favourably by Spike Jonze, Jay Roach, etc. In a way I have more hope j
More Previews... (Score:3, Informative)

by mishmash ( 585101 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @09:05AM (#9810855) Homepage

Here are some pictures of Marvin's Costume [ntlworld.com], there's confirmation they're real in this interview [ntlworld.com].

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- Re:More Previews... (Score:2, Insightful)
  
  by tomknight ( 190939 ) writes:
  
  Gaaaagh!
  Sorry, but the TV Marvin, umm... "emoted" more.
  Tom.
- Oh, for Pete's sake... (Score:3, Funny)
  
  by HarveyBirdman ( 627248 ) writes:
  
  "Brain the size of a planet" was not meant to be taken LITERALLY!
  - Pedantic , I know, but I think it was literal (Score:2)
    
    by N Monkey ( 313423 ) writes:
    
    "Brain the size of a planet" was not meant to be taken LITERALLY! :-)
    
    I know what you're getting at but, IIRC, I think his brain was supposed to be the size of a planet...just that it was stored in some other dimension or something.
    - Re:Pedantic , I know, but I think it was literal (Score:2)
      
      by gamgee5273 ( 410326 ) * writes:
      
      No, you're right. Marvin's brain was, literally, the size of a planet and stored elsewhere (not his head).
      - Re:Pedantic , I know, but I think it was literal (Score:2)
        
        by Jeremi ( 14640 ) writes:
        
        Or perhaps it is the size of a very small planet.
  - Re:Oh, for Pete's sake... (Score:5, Funny)
    
    by stratjakt ( 596332 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @09:30AM (#9811165) Journal
    
    It occurs to me, that when those "authenticity" geeks who go to movies to point out continuity flaws (like the spiderman article here on /. a few weeks ago) see this movie, their heads will explode.
    
    I can just see them feverishly scribbling into their zaurus': "Continuity Error #123231254: Shot clearly shows ICBMS, next shot they appear to be a bowl of petunias and a whale." "Error #1534534534: Ford turns into a penguin.", etc..
    
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    - Continuity? (Score:2)
      
      by HarveyBirdman ( 627248 ) writes:
      
      Schmontinuity! I'm not a continuity geek, but, geez, did you LOOK at the picture? He's got a big, cute bobble head. They've turned Marvin into Son Of Twiki.
      "Bedebedebedebedebedebedebede! I'm feeling very depressed, Buck..."
      - Re:Continuity? (Score:4, Insightful)
        
        by Hittite Creosote ( 535397 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @10:20AM (#9811873)
        
        He looks like he was designed to be your plastic pal who's fun to be with by some jerk who'll be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes...
        
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        Re:Continuity? (Score:2)
        
        by Rallion ( 711805 ) writes:
        
        Exactly. People seem to forget that his depression is all a big accident, and that he wasn't designed that way. He was designed....well, to be just like Eddie, I suppose.
    - Re:Oh, for Pete's sake... (Score:5, Insightful)
      
      by meringuoid ( 568297 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @10:52AM (#9812352)
      
      It occurs to me, that when those "authenticity" geeks who go to movies to point out continuity flaws (like the spiderman article here on /. a few weeks ago) see this movie, their heads will explode.
      Continuity flaws, continuity flaws...
      I'm eagerly looking forward to the Slashdot discussion when this film comes out. Thousands of geeks, livid that the movie contradicts the books... when the books happily contradict
      the TV series
      the radio series
      the LP
      each other
      basic axioms of logic
      on every single page!
      Anyone got a phone number for NASA? I think I want to leave the planet...
      
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  - Re:Oh, for Pete's sake... (Score:2, Interesting)
    
    by Denver_80203 ( 570689 ) writes:
    
    And furthermore.. through time space warp twists and turns, Marvin's brain actaully was the earth Mock II. Built after Earth I was blown up. According to Adams, Marvin asks the ultimate question to a matress (I think it's in the second book. Paraphrasing:
    "Do you want to know just how amazing smart I am and dumb you are?"
    "Sure!"
    "Pick a number, any number"
    "Uuummmmm 12?"
    "Wrong. See?"
    - Re:Oh, for Pete's sake... (Score:2)
      
      by ErroneousBee ( 611028 ) writes:
      
      Its 5, which is also wrong.
- Ok...now I'm worried (Score:2, Interesting)
  
  by ck42 ( 134627 ) writes:
  
  I realize that this is just a prototype....BUT, if they are THAT far off of what they think Marvin should look like, then it really leaves me worried about how screwed up the rest of the movie is going to be.
  
  Seriously, does ANYONE think that Marvin is suppose to be a cute looking short robot with a HUGE round head!??
  
  He should be taller, darker, more mechanical looking, slightly sinister, and oh, has everyone forgotten one very important piece????
  
  Marvin's all important PEG LEG!!!!! I mean come on! The p
  - Re:Ok...now I'm worried (Score:2)
    
    by Jeremi ( 14640 ) writes:
    
    I think many people are imagining Marvin based on his radio-series voice, which is melancholy and deep-pitched. It's natural to associate a deep-pitched voice with a large person -- hence people's surprise at seeing Marvin visualized a dwarf-sized robot (which they would expect to have a high, squeaky voice)
- - Re:More Previews... (Score:2)
    
    by ChuyMatt ( 318775 ) writes:
    
    um... guys. That was a PROTOTYPE costume. And, damn, he looks cute, tho. Not quite as metallic as I was expecting, but then, probably will be painted when all is done.
  - Re:More Previews... (Score:2)
    
    by meringuoid ( 568297 ) writes:
    
    The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Company defines a robot as 'Your plastic pal who's fun to be with'.
    Marvin's personality was screwed up, because he was a prototype model of the Genuine People Personalities line, but certainly his body ought to be cute, friendly and marketable by the kind of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Don't bother... (Score:2)

by csguy314 ( 559705 ) writes:

There's nothing to see in the trailer; no point in downloading it. Wait until there's a trailer with some of the actors and bits of scenes.
Move along now... continue worki^H^H^H^H^Hreading slashdot.
I may pay for this... (Score:2, Informative)

by AnswerIs42 ( 622520 ) writes:

mirror [alteviltech.com]
I was able to snag it before the /. hit. (I hope it's all there, I can't play it right now because it want's a codec the firewall won't let me download) I would prefer more mirrors instead of all getting it from there :}
- Re:I may pay for this... (Score:2)
  
  by Scorchio ( 177053 ) writes:
  
  I first tried the avi with Windows Media Player; it went off looking for a codec and finally decided it couldn't download one, which sounds like what's happened to you. I found it worked fine with the free divx player [divx.com], so maybe this will help you, too?
- Thanks a bunch (Score:2)
  
  by TubeSteak ( 669689 ) writes:
  
  The ath.cx link was zippy & i like the multi-step process of getting the link & then the cutnpaste to download it. I'm sure thats what saved your server from meltdown.
  All that aside, WHY ISN'T AKAIMI or FREECACHE mirroring this trailer?
Mirror. (Score:4, Informative)

by rufus_the_stunt_bum ( 800615 ) writes: <sasa AT kcore DOT ath DOT cx> on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @09:21AM (#9811055) Homepage

Here's a mirror l;) http://kcore.ath.cx/trailer_hitchhikers.avi [kcore.ath.cx]

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- Re:Mirror. (Score:2)
  
  by jbrw ( 520 ) writes:
  
  yeah, same here:
  
  http://67.18.205.234/~jamie/trailer_hitchhikers.av i [67.18.205.234]
  
  it's an easy way of stress testing a newish server, right?
Torrent of avi file (Score:4, Informative)

by iocc ( 238550 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @09:26AM (#9811114) Journal

Connecting to hitchhikermovie.free.fr[212.27.40.152]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 503 Service Unavailable

http://www.thepiratebay.org/download.php/3227637 /t railer_hitchhikers.torrent

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- Re:Torrent of avi file - LINK (Score:2)
  
  by AyeRoxor! ( 471669 ) writes:
  
  http://www.thepiratebay.org/download.php/3227637/ t railer_hitchhikers.torrent [thepiratebay.org]
  
  As seen below the submission window
  
  <URL:http://example.com/> will auto-link a URL
  
  But of course, thank you for posting the torrent.
  
  <ificouldhaveamomentofyourtime>
  I AM TIRED OF A WEBSITE OF SUPPOSED TECHIES POSTING LINKS TO FILES THAT THEY KNOW WILL PROBABLY BE KNOCKED DOWN. POST TORRENT, POST MIRRORS ON KNOWN DEPENDABLE SITES, OR DONT FUCKING POST.
  </ificouldhaveamomentofyourtime>
Isn't it great? (Score:2)

by Thedalek ( 473015 ) writes:

H2G2 TV-series on DVD: Check
H2G2 Radio show on CD (and subsequently, mp3): Check
H2G2 Leather bound, goldleaf singlebound volume: Check
H2G2 Comics: Check
New H2G2 Radio Shows: Coming this fall.
H2G2 Movie: Coming next year.

It's a good time to be a fan.

Now, if only we could get some news on the new Dr. Who series, or the Red Dwarf movie, or Red Dwarf Series IX...
warning, there's spoilers! (Score:5, Funny)

by deathcloset ( 626704 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @09:32AM (#9811196) Journal

THE EARTH GETS BLOWN UP!???!!!

Ah man! now the movie's ruined for me!

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- Re:warning, there's spoilers! (Score:3, Funny)
  
  by jmoriarty ( 179788 ) writes:
  
  THE EARTH GETS BLOWN UP!???!!!
  
  Oh no! Does that mean the Lone Gunmen are dead?
Radio series and books were quite divergent ... (Score:2)

by Roy Ward ( 14216 ) writes:

The second radio series was quite different than the books, and was better in my opinion (perhaps because I heard it before I read the books).

The end of the second radio series had Arthur taking off in the Heart of Gold after discovering Zaphod's part in the destruction of Earth, leaving Ford and Zaphod stranded with the ruler of the universe, and Trillian had disappeared near the end of the first series (forcibly married to the Algolian Chapter of the Galactic Rotary Club, from memory).

The end of the sec
- Re:Radio series and books were quite divergent ... (Score:2)
  
  by EkiM in De ( 574327 ) writes:
  
  According to the small making of documentary [abovethetitle.com] . The radio series will be an adaptation of the remaining 3 books in the 5 part Trilogy. As opposed to an extension of the original radio series.
- Re:Radio series and books were quite divergent ... (Score:2)
  
  by guidemaker ( 570195 ) writes:
  
  "I don't hold much hope for the movie ... the TV series was pretty awful."
  
  Lucky that a) the movie is not being made by the same people who made the TV Series and b) its budget is about 100 times bigger.
avi audio only? (Score:2)

by spoonyfork ( 23307 ) writes:

I'm only getting the audio from the avi. Am I missing a codec? If so, which one?
- Re:avi audio only? (Score:4, Informative)
  
  by InfiniteWisdom ( 530090 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @10:37AM (#9812129) Homepage
  
  $ file trailer_hitchhikers.avi
  trailer_hitchhikers.avi: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 320 x 240, 29.97 fps, video: DivX 5, audio: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (stereo, 44100 Hz)
  
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- - Re:avi audio only? (Score:3, Informative)
    
    by spoonyfork ( 23307 ) writes:
    
    It's divx, get the codec here [divx.com] (windows/mac).
Mirror (Score:3, Informative)

by jaredmauch ( 633928 ) writes: <jared@puck.nether.net> on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @09:54AM (#9811460) Homepage

high speed mirror [nether.net]

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Reference and Easter Egg (Score:3, Informative)

by yoz ( 3735 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @10:12AM (#9811747) Homepage

Reference: Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World" was the music played at the very end of the 1980 BBC TV series.

Easter Egg: Watch the upper-left corner of the screen at the end of the trailer.

-- Yoz

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- Re:Reference and Easter Egg (Score:2)
  
  by guidemaker ( 570195 ) writes:
  
  Reference: Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World" was the music played at the very end of the 1980 BBC TV series.
  
  And in the original radio series, at the end of the first series.
- - Re:Reference and Easter Egg (Score:3, Interesting)
    
    by TuringTest ( 533084 ) writes:
    
    So, you're saying that the meaning of life, the universe and everything is blindingly obvious????
But then... (Score:3, Funny)

by physicsboy500 ( 645835 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @10:13AM (#9811763)

one server sitting on it's own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth
suddenly hosted what it was that had been going wrong all this
time, and it finally knew how the world could be made a good
and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no
one would have to get nailed to anything.

Sadly, however, before it could get bandwidth to tell anyone
about it, it was slashdotted, and the idea was lost forever.

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While /. effect subsides (Score:4, Funny)

by AbstracTus ( 576474 ) writes: <`si.yranib' `ta' `ranie'> on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @10:15AM (#9811792) Homepage

While I'm waiting for the server to recover, I'd like to post on of my favorite quote from the book, something I cannot picture getting a cross in the movie. "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't"

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torrent link for .AVI (Score:3, Informative)

by k3v0 ( 592611 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @10:19AM (#9811851) Journal

hitchikers trailer [dnsalias.net]

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- Re:torrent link for .AVI (Score:2)
  
  by Peale ( 9155 ) writes:
  
  It's very nice. Except...there are NO seeds or downloaders. @ least right now. Maybe I just caught it when you first started it?
  - Re:torrent link for .AVI (Score:2)
    
    by k3v0 ( 592611 ) writes:
    
    it looks like its okay now
I'll wait for the quicktime version (Score:3, Insightful)

by Mononoke ( 88668 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @10:24AM (#9811926) Homepage Journal

Just like the AppleMaster [applelinks.com] himself would have used.

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42 (Score:3, Informative)

by thatguywhoiam ( 524290 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @10:25AM (#9811934)

The '42' floating in the stars on the upper-left side near the end was a nice touch.

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AVI Mirror (Score:2)

by cetan ( 61150 ) writes:

http://home.comcast.net/~phule/trailer_hitchhikers .avi [comcast.net]
Working link... (Score:2)

by TheWart ( 700842 ) writes:

http://mtw.dramaciderecrods.net/HitchHikers_Guide_ teaser.avi Here is a working link...for now. ;)
Aah, Trillian. (Score:3, Interesting)

by asdfasdfasdfasdf ( 211581 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @11:12AM (#9812569)

I'm a bit worried about the radio show. Trillian sounds like more like Dame Judi Dench than the new hotness that Trillian is/was. All of them are a bit too old, but they should have recast Trillian. She's just far too old lady.

I am really excited to hear the old space bajo tune again, though. Time to relive my childhood and feel young again!

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- Re:Aah, Trillian. (Score:3, Informative)
  
  by JonBob ( 556956 ) writes:
  
  The "old space banjo tune" is called Journey of the Sorcerer [apple.com]. Share and enjoy!
Well, thank goodness (Score:2)

by Mannerism ( 188292 ) writes:

The movie trailer doesn't reveal anything

Oh, good, no spoilers. The three or four /. readers who haven't read the book will be delighted to hear that.
A friend of mine was offered... (Score:2)

by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) ( 613870 ) writes:

...a job working for one of the companies working on the HHGTG visual effects. He's a big time Douglas Adams fan and it was a good job offer. But instead he found a job elsewhere. He simply didn't want to have his name attached to what looks like it's ultimately going to turn into the bastardization of the best work of one of his favorite authors.
100Mbit Mirror (Score:3, Informative)

by ender- ( 42944 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @11:57AM (#9813103) Homepage Journal

Here is a mirror on a 100mbit network...

http://www.fearthepenguin.net/video/trailer_hitchh ikers.avi [fearthepenguin.net]

Enjoy...

Ender-

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- don't DO that! (Score:3, Funny)
  
  by surreal-maitland ( 711954 ) writes:
  
  friday? you had me really hopefully for a moment there. what can i say? it's early.
- Re:Wow, welcome to Friday. (Score:2)
  
  by OECD ( 639690 ) writes:
  
  The movie trailer doesn't reveal anything, but looks cool.
  Reveal anything? Taco hasn't read the books? Or is this a different story?
  - Re:Wow, welcome to Friday. (Score:3, Insightful)
    
    by mog007 ( 677810 ) writes:
    
    I believe Taco meant that the trailer is more like a teaser, in that no actual footage from the movie is being shown.
- - Re:Wow, welcome to Friday. (Score:3, Interesting)
    
    by SillyNickName4me ( 760022 ) writes:
    
    > I remain astonished that RealPlayer is still an internet standard. It's no easier to install than Divx or Xvid, requires you to have that stupid 24 gig player, and the quality is easily a step down from the big two. For god's sake, put Real out of its misery !
    
    WHen talking about this trailer, I completely agree with you, no reason to use real format at all.
    
    When talking about streaming video, the AVI file format is serious not suited for it (for once because of having the index at the end of the file a
    - - Re:Wow, welcome to Friday. (Score:2)
        
        by SillyNickName4me ( 760022 ) writes:
        
        mplayer with realplayer codecs here.. or at times realplayer 8 for linux.
- Re:I'll let you know in 23 minutes (Score:2)
  
  by fatwreckfan ( 322865 ) writes:
  
  It only took me about 3 minutes...it slowed down near the end to about 20kBps, but that's not too bad.
  - Re:I'll let you know in 23 minutes (Score:2, Redundant)
    
    by elmegil ( 12001 ) writes:
    
    The AVI is downloading way faster than the real media. I clicked on both and it was 15 minutes vs. 15 hours.
    The trailer itself is definitely just a teaser, shows off some nice but not terribly groundbreaking CGI. It'll build some hype among those who weren't aware it was coming. The logo's pretty cool, incorporating elements of earlier logos while still being new and different.
- Re:I'll let you know in 23 minutes (Score:2)
  
  by Scorchio ( 177053 ) writes:
  
  I know... I was hoping people would be distracted by the new poll, so went straight for saving the movie file. Started at abour 120k/s, finished around 27k/s. :)
  
  As the article says, there's not much content beyond the exploding earth and "don't panic" message. Still, I'm a big hitch-hikers fan, and it gave me goosebumps. You can go stick your Star Wars prequel, I don't care anymore. I just hope they don't go and f%ck up this film!
- what was the taco thinking? (Score:2)
  
  by TubeSteak ( 669689 ) writes:
  
  When i saw the links that said "avi" or "realmedia"
  I just sortof shook my head and thought: Oh God. What have they done.
  Amazingly, the realmedia file is willing to be downloaded!
  That either speaks to:
  the massive bandwidth usually associated with a .nu domain
  the disgraceful bandwidth of the French
  or
  RealMedia's status as the unwanted step child in the video codec world.
  Now I will continue readinG the thread in search of an AVI mirror.
  The Time is 10:08 AM CST
- Torrent here! (Score:3, Informative)
  
  by Anonymous Coward writes:
  
  Torrent here! [piratebay.org]
- Re:Less popular than 53 more things to do in zero (Score:2)
  
  by AKAImBatman ( 238306 ) writes:
  
  So I can't say I have been waiting 24 years to see it on the big screen. I'll wait until it arrives on a small one in my living-room.
  
  You know, 24 is 42 backwards...
  
  Just a thought.
- Re:Less popular than 53 more things to do in zero (Score:2, Insightful)
  
  by locr1an ( 771992 ) writes:
  
  Of course, in the original Hitchhiker's Guide radio scripts, when Arthur pulls out Scrabble stones to discover the question to the answer "42" the sentence "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" emerges, and then Arthur says "Six by nine? Forty-two? You know, I've always felt that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Universe." -- it is at this point that a faint and distant voice says "base thirteen!". 42 (base 13) is equal to 54 (base 10). ( Douglas Adams has been quoted as saying "Yo
- Typos (Score:3, Interesting)
  
  by Xesdeeni ( 308293 ) writes:
  
  I got (what I think was) the first leather bound volume, labeled on the spine as:
  
  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe
  The Restaurant at the End of the Galaxy
  So Long And Thanks for All the Fish
  Young Zaphod Plays It Safe
  
  Glad to hear the same guy who did my book's spine is still employed doing yours :-).
  
  Xesdeeni
- Re:Ick (Score:5, Funny)
  
  by Rallion ( 711805 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @10:40AM (#9812170) Journal
  
  Um...did you just say you wanted HHGG to not have anything in it that doesn't make any sense? Did you really just say that?
  
  It would have to be about five minutes long!
  
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  - Re:Ick (Score:2, Insightful)
    
    by fullmetal55 ( 698310 ) writes:
    
    exactly. the whole point of hitchhikers is that it doesn't make sense. leaving you scratching your head as to how the heck that happened...
  - - Re:Ick (Score:2)
      
      by Rallion ( 711805 ) writes:
      
      Not always. Just putting things where they don't belong is half of what makes HHGG funny. Like...well, the whale. Obviously.
- Re:Ick (Score:2)
  
  by thenextpresident ( 559469 ) writes:
  
  It's a teaser, not a trailer. It's not supposed to have substance. Just to say "Yes, we are making this movie..."

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Bandwidth the size of a planet... (Score:5, Funny)

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Working Mirror (Score:3, Informative)

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As the web server crashed to the ground... (Score:5, Funny)

Imagination (Score:5, Insightful)

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Another site for information on the Radio Series (Score:5, Informative)

Zaphod (Score:2)

Wonderful World (Score:5, Informative)

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Freecache? (Score:2)

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Well, (Score:3, Insightful)

Tried to download the trailer... (Score:5, Funny)

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More Previews... (Score:3, Informative)

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Oh, for Pete's sake... (Score:3, Funny)

Pedantic , I know, but I think it was literal (Score:2)

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Continuity? (Score:2)

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Ok...now I'm worried (Score:2, Interesting)

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Don't bother... (Score:2)

I may pay for this... (Score:2, Informative)

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Thanks a bunch (Score:2)

Mirror. (Score:4, Informative)

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Torrent of avi file (Score:4, Informative)

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Isn't it great? (Score:2)

warning, there's spoilers! (Score:5, Funny)

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Radio series and books were quite divergent ... (Score:2)

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avi audio only? (Score:2)

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Mirror (Score:3, Informative)

Reference and Easter Egg (Score:3, Informative)

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But then... (Score:3, Funny)

While /. effect subsides (Score:4, Funny)

torrent link for .AVI (Score:3, Informative)

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I'll wait for the quicktime version (Score:3, Insightful)

42 (Score:3, Informative)

AVI Mirror (Score:2)

Working link... (Score:2)

Aah, Trillian. (Score:3, Interesting)

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