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Star Wars Trailer on Entertainment Tonight 109

Posted by CmdrTaco from the easier-than-a-25-meg-download dept.
An anonymous reader writes "I saw the post about the availability of the Star Wars trailer on the net and I thought I'd mention for those who don't have the patience to download 25 MB that it is going to be on Entertainment Tonight Thursday night. "
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Star Wars Trailer on Entertainment Tonight

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  • I just have to ask (since people keep posting mirrors of the .mov.. not many mirrors of the (converted) .mpg..)

    Is there a player for Linux that reads the .mov correctly? I tried xanim, and it only played the audio.

    I just want to know if there's a good Linux player for these files before I start ranting to Lucasfilm and Apple...
  • Keep it? Why the hell would I keep it? I need the space for MP3s, dammit!
  • I hate to say it, but WINE is just a cop-out, IMO.. It's exactly what everybody that ran OS/2 had to do ("This program will work with OS/2 in running under 16-bit Win-OS/2")

    I really don't want to put any more Windows software on my computer than I absolutely have to..
  • Absolutely. Got an address we can all send messages to? Perhaps someone could set up an address we can all send mail to one address, then have someone archive a day's worth of mail, then send that multi-meg message to Apple.. it should get their attention ;-)
  • WCCO also has a RealVideo clip that it looks like they stole from some channel in LA..

    http://www.wcco.com/news/s tories/news-990311-201025.html [wcco.com]
  • Just saw it at 17:55PST on CNN Headline News. They played the first trailer about every hour, so look for this one at about 5-of-the-hour.

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  • Posted by Forward The Light Brigade:

    thought I may as well post here as well

    I am mirroring the trailer at
    ftp://sparky.student.umd.edu/starwars [umd.edu]
  • Posted by Forward The Light Brigade:

    sorry no slashot effect... BUT
    this system just had a clean install/upgrade
    (from a highly overhauled RH5.1 to a DEB2.1)

    and so I was compiling WMINET (which is a wm dock app that monitors various services) when I noticed a very high number for FTP... wondering if I had set it up wrong I opened an Eterm and typed ftpwho

    take a look [umd.edu]

    this is by no means the peak... just a random sample.... sheesh...
  • Posted by jedimstr:

    According to local listings, West Coast will show ET at 4:30 Pacific on CBS.
  • Cablemodems ROCK!!!!!!!!!
    Even though i hate to wait 3 minutes. Sheese. What a slow site... :P
    > get starwars-trailer2.mov Receiving file: starwars-trailer2.mov 100% 0 ==========================================> 26031487 bytes. ETA: 0:00 starwars-trailer2.mov: 26031487 bytes received in 230.32 seconds, 110.38 kB/s.

    ...I cleaned up the root partition and now there's LOTS of free space!
  • Well then, it is accurate to say YOUR cable modem provider SUCKS...Cable modesm themselfs don't suck.

    NOW dial in..ahahahhahaah. THAT SUCKS....



    ...I cleaned up the root partition and now there's LOTS of free space!
  • uhm, how can you do that? any post will be the first post.. there has to be a first post sometime! :)
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    scott miga
  • i understand your point, but im just saying how if the first post is elimnated, then the 2nd person who posts will become the 1st post, so you really cant get rid of the first post. well, if you disabled comments all together, but that wouldnt be good. :)
    --
    scott miga
  • i just saw the trailer on MTV during one of its news breaks, i was quite suprised by it.
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    scott miga
  • Greetings!

    I just wanted to let you know that you can now download the Star Wars: Episode I "The Phantom Menace" trailer from our FTP site.

    Get the files from:

    ftp://lavender.cime.net/pub/star_wars [cime.net]

    Please read the readme.txt and readme.AOL.txt files for updates and instructions for download.

    The latest trailer is much better than the first one, both in content and in video/audio quality. The trailer is in QuickTime version 3 format, widescreen. YOU MUST HAVE QUICK-TIME 3.0 to play it. I put a copy of the QuickTime installation program in case you want to download it from here as well. We also recommend that you use FTP instead of a browser because we're only allowing 128 simultaneous HTTP connections due to the demand we experienced already. Go to http://www.countingdown.com for other HTTP download sites. Besides, FTP is more reliable. We strongly suggest using the WS_FTP client. If you manage to get an HTTP connection, download WS_FTP from the same directory where the trailer is, then download the trailer with WS_FTP.

    Take care, and talk to you later!

    Eugene
    CIME Software Labs, LLC
    http://cime.net
    "Let's build something useful" -- Dennis Ritchie

  • I thought I'd mention for those who don't have the patience to download 25 MB that it is going to be on Entertainment Tonight Thursday night.

    For those of us in the UK, it's apparently going to be shown on The Big Breakfast tomorrow (Friday) morning, and on TFI Friday tomorrow evening, both on Channel 4.

  • Wesley Crusher.

    'nuf said.
  • Many of us feel a strong attraction to anything that has blinking lights or moving parts.
    Call it a techo-fetish if you will.

    I saw the trailer twice tonight. I loved it!
  • That's because Star Wars takes place Long Ago
    in a galaxy Far Away. How can you expect older
    weapons like that to compete with Photon Torpedoes?

    Sheesh.
  • Mr Lucas was personally reviewing each trailer to make sure it only gives away what he wants it to. The trailers are the ONLY thing that I have watched related to the upcoming episode I. I dont think the trailers themselves will give away anything. It will only force me to wait inline for a ticket two days before it comes out.

    95% unseen is good enough for me. Especially since I have been awaiting this movie for like 3 years now. I only have so much patience

    73% downloaded, screw ET, I'll be in class anyway...

  • hi all,


    we have it mirrored at ftp://x.cwru.edu/pub/menace_408.mov [cwru.edu] for your viewing pleasure. i'd host it on one of my servers but our ethernet trunk is saturate.


    slashdot away... brandon's got a goal of a terabyte for downloads by semesters' end.


    jnazario

  • Entertainment Tonight comes on a Waco station and is broadcasted on our local cable system... They failed to do that tonight... NO TRAILER... :( I recorded it from CNN earlier, but the sound is flat, no surround encoding... ET for the first trailer was awesome, full rich sound, now, let me reiterate, College Station was screwed over. Damn I'm really ticked off about this!!! Only I can't figure out who to gripe to. Guess I'll be limited to the QT... very cool I might add, but I sure would have liked to add it to the tape with the first trailer.
    Time flies like an arrow;
  • I saw it in the theaters in 1978, when it made it's second-run round. I was about 7.

    I didn't see it when it first came out, but remember that all my friends were deeply into it, and made me want to see it.

    I was a little disappointed in it, but I liked Empire and Jedi much more.
  • Good, then I can post two "first post" messages, and we're back where we started =D
  • Here's a fast mirror I have up at fragglerock.linuxpower.org/pub/starwa rs [linuxpower.org]
  • Saw the trailer. It absolutely ROCKS.
  • You've missed it in the east coast and now almost central, but west coast can still get it. It comes up somewhere between 10:20 and 10:30 Thursday night.

    Unfortunately CNN doesn't come in stereo - at least on my cable system - so the picture is better than on my pc but the sound is worse.

  • So... (Score:1)

    by JoeD ( 12073 )
    How many people here actually saw Star Wars in the theater when it was first released?

    This might actually make a good poll question...
  • Have a filter that counts it as a first post if it contains the words first post or i rock!! or whatever. also, maybe limit it to one of the first 20 messages, so if any of the first 20 have the right phrases, they get counted as a first post. voila :)
  • I saw it last night, on telly, (though not the entire thing the tv staation didn't show it all) but it looked great. (btw I am in Australia, for some reason we saw it early)
  • I take it that Quicktime for Windows doesn't work yet with WINE?
  • I also have a mirror of the mpeg.

    The Phroputer [dhs.org]
    ftp://phroputer.dhs.org/pub

    Come and get it!

  • May 19th ???

    Surely they should have made it May 4th ;-)





































  • I couldn't find a link to an mpeg (maybe I'm blind). Have more mpeg versions been created
    or mirrored? If so, where can I find one?
  • Now there's a guy with his priorities straight!
    Just the Star Wars trailer.
  • And 10-baseT connections are even better!!!

    22771716 bytes received in 67.5 secs (3.3e+02 Kbytes/sec)

    Ta
  • You're not really missing much if you don't understand the appeal; it just doesn't appeal to you. I myself realized how bored I was when I saw the original trilogy in the theatre. Not that I'm not a Star Wars nut, its just lost some of the appeal it had when I was younger. I look forward to the new series because Lucas is a good storyteller and has some neat special effects and CG on his plate, but I'm not a fanatic of the movies so much as a fanatic of the philosophies, the universe, and the ideas embedded in the movies.


    AS
  • For those who live in the St. Paul/Minneapolis area and missed seeing it on ET yesterday:

    This morning (3/12) on channel 11's news they played the trailer and showed a small clip of some people spazzing out about wanting to see the movie.

    They said they'd be showing it at 5, 6, and 10 tonight, too.

    Karen
    karamouse@rocketmail.com
  • guys, there are several good mirrors listed here for the download. I tried them all at the same time and the fastest one I kept after a while. This movie looks awesome. I can't wait. It's not a hoax -it's for real.
  • yeah but 100basetx connections are even better!!!!!

    So ha

  • Grep (Score:1)

    by Beef ( 19842 )
    Wow, looks like Spielberg really outdid himself this time!
  • >> Wow, looks like Spielberg really outdid
    >> himself this time!

    You're kidding, right? Sorry, couldn't easily
    read the sarcasm in that post, if it was there.
    I hope it was...

    If not, then I just want to point out that
    Spielberg has nothing to do with the new film.
    It's all the creative genius of George Lucas.

    Thanks for reading,
    Mike
  • Just saw the trailer. It's quite impressive.
    The lightsaber duels are going to be
    particularly amazing. Nice shots of all the
    new ships, landscapes, etc.

    Anakin was suspiciously absent from the trailer.
    Hmm...

    Also, be aware that the new release date of
    the film is May 19th, as confirmed by LucasFilm
    and printed on the trailer itself.

    -Mike
  • I dunno. Lucas has always focused on the story
    and characters. Remember his famous quote,
    "Special Effects without a story is a pretty
    boring thing". I think he really follows that.

    Also, Lucas himself is trying to downplay Ep. I.
    He keeps telling the press that he was just
    making a "B movie". I think it's the press that
    is just going overboard and selling the movie
    out for him.

    He hasn't directed since "Star Wars" (1977), so
    I think if he were truly "selling out" he would
    have just been producer again, and sat back
    while the film was made. He cared enough about
    the Star Wars story to pen the script and direct
    it himself. Not easy after 20 years of only
    writing and producing jobs.

    -Mike
  • > He wasn't absent, he just hardly appeared.

    Right. He was in two shots, actually.
    I was just saying "absent" compared to the
    teaser trailer. Cool that the new trailer
    focuses on the storyline, and actually
    gives us a hint of the glory to come...

    -Mike
  • Dude, don't even start. At least Star Wars
    isn't techie science fiction.

    It's a modern myth. It uses the ideas of
    mythology and "fairy tales" to tell a story
    of humanity and the struggle of good vs.
    evil, man vs. machine.

    It's deeper than Star Trek.. Don't even go
    there. It's like comparing apples to oranges,
    really. Star Wars has its impact at a
    different level.

    Read "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by
    Campbell to get a good idea of what motivated
    Lucas when he penned Star Wars.

    -Mike

  • Besides, how many times has the Enterprise
    broken down? See, the Falcon has character.

    ;-)
  • ET is syndicated, so it's fairly random what station you'll see it on. If you CBS station usually shows ET, I image NCAA's will preempt it.

    The show has a web site, try searching for it.

  • Man, and I thought I took this stuff serious.

    Really, though. Star Trek is true Sci-Fi. Well, The first series and Next Gen. As far as I can tell, DS9 and Voyager are soaps in space.
    In contrast, Star Wars is, and always has been, a space opera, a fantasy, set in a different time with some technology and space travel to avoid comparisons to the lord of the rings. A good rule of thumb is this: if the spinoff books are more about the tech, it's sci fi. If the spinoffs are more about the art, it's fantasy.

    And if people use a Mac to hack anything, it's Super-Extra-Deluded fantasy.

    Zagmar
  • You should put an option in preferences to
    automatically ignore all first posts.

    What's the point of that anyway?

    kmj

  • Because it wouldn't actually be removed, so the second post wouldn't become the first.

    Anyway, it wouldn't matter, becuase idiots would just do what the other guy said; post twice. And who knows, maybe someday, one of the first posts will actually have some content.

    I just can't understand why some people would purposefully pollute a message board with such b*11sh*t. Even lame-assed flames and off-topic comments(like this one) are 100 times better.

    Sigh.
    kmj

    kmj

  • Must have watched it at least seven times already.
    Can't wait to watch it on the television.
    I'll have the subwoofer cranked.

    And I am allowed to buy toys at FAO.
  • Obviously, since starwars.com died soon after the post appeared on slashdot, then there are a lot of people out there who want to see this and like star wars. And i think the number of posts that are pro-star wars kinda out weight yours. Do yourself a favor, get a user account, and just ignore all the star wars posts? Now, was that too hard?




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    "1st Rule of Programming: Don't be a dumbass."
  • Go to www.apple.com if you want to download the trailer.
    I thought I'd mention this here since I'm not so sure anyone reading this site visits Apple very often.
  • One thing I really don't like is people calling Star Wars a Sci Fi movie. It's not. Being set mainly in outer space doesn't make it Sci Fi.

    It's really an Action/Fantasy/Spritual movie, And a VERY good one too! But there's nothing scientific about it.

    I knew someone who had never seen it but assumed it was like Star Trek. Star Trek is very technical and appeals to the 'nerdy' type of person a lot. But Star Wars is not. It appeals more to the spiritual side of one's personality. Since it's about someone's (Darth Vader's) internal struggle between good and evil.

    If you look at it through the eyes of a 'Trekkie' you probably won't get anything out of it. But if you look at it as someone's internal struggle between good and evil, you might appreciate it more.

    My $0.02
  • Three years?!? Try 15-20 years!
  • Obviously only true nerds would understand....
  • I was 6 when I saw it. Remember the people I went with, but don't remember much about when I saw it (I don't remember if the opening crawl message meant anything to me or not). I'd give anything to have a video of me watching it for the first time. I can only imagine being wide-eyed and mouth open. I also vividly remember purchasing my first star wars toy and going to my grandmothers house afterwards and playing with it (still have that well used storm trooper too).
  • Multiple T3s from University Servers:

    ftp.gsu.edu/tmp/C2menaceB2.mpg (crappy quality)
    ftp.gsu.edu/tmp/menace_480.mov (best quality)

    Should be up for 48 hours or until they pull it off. Enjoy!
  • Truly fantastic scope and vision.

    George Lucas is taking us to some truly wonderful places again.
  • I think that it is a shame that Lucas, who has written and abided by a near religious obseviness to their THX theatre standard, who have threatned to not allow non-THX compliant theatres show Episode I, have released this trailer, 2 days before it comes out in theatres around the country, in such a degraded form of media in such a shoddy mockery of their incredible Movie Experience.

    /me runs to armory, dons flack jacket, grabs artilery, grabs shovel and digs trench to weather out the firstorm!
  • Same problem here, and that's after downloading from two separate sites. Works fine under '95 though, on the same machine.
  • if your provider doesn't give you reliability. For the past few days my cable link's connectivity uptime can be estimated to be 0% for all practical purposes.

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