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Ouch, Danny! 50 MB? for a 30-second clip? Over my 768 Kb/s DSL line,
even on an unimpaired connection, that's well over 10 minutes to download.
This evening it's been 20 minutes, and it's not done downloading yet!
.... for a 30-second clip? This had better be good ... :-) .
> Saf for work, unless you're at AT&T or TM...
Next time try capturing in a more economical format, please. Thnx. -- tlvp
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Re: advertisement poking fun at the AT&T takeover...
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:19:12 +0000 (UTC), danny burstein wrote:
> In <1w3ixs5nktshr.1org8ew0np6ue$.dlg@40tude.net> tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> writes:
>
>>On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:09:52 +0000 (UTC), danny burstein wrote:
>
>>> Virgin Mobile has an advert ...
>>> ... thirty seconds. 50 megs:
>>>
>>> http://www.dburstein.com/video/virgin-advert.mov
>
>>Ouch, Danny! 50 MB? for a 30-second clip? Over my 768 Kb/s DSL line,
>>even on an unimpaired connection, that's well over 10 minutes to download.
>
> Try the following (about ten megs):
>
> http://www.dburstein.com/video/virgin/
Thanks, Danny. Seeing the first 23 seconds worth of the first, after
waiting a good half-hour for that 75% to come in, is good enough for me,
so I'll dispense with this new opportunity. Anyway, what Virgin Mobile
offers looks like GBS's impression of what Hades must be like -- fun,
if you like a noisy, raucous, bumptious kind of fun, hell if you don't.
I'll pass :-) .
Cheers, -- tlvp
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>Thanks, Danny. Seeing the first 23 seconds worth of the first, after
>waiting a good half-hour for that 75% to come in, is good enough for me,
>so I'll dispense with this new opportunity. Anyway, what Virgin Mobile
>offers looks like GBS's impression of what Hades must be like -- fun,
>if you like a noisy, raucous, bumptious kind of fun, hell if you don't.
>I'll pass :-) .
But you did catch, I hope, their (virgin's) zinger
about how AT&T ranks last in customer satisfaction...
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Re: advertisement poking fun at the AT&T takeover...
In article <1w3ixs5nktshr.1org8ew0np6ue$.dlg@40tude.net>, tlvp says...
>
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:09:52 +0000 (UTC), danny burstein wrote:
>
> > Virgin Mobile has an advert ...
> > ... thirty seconds. 50 megs:
> >
> > http://www.dburstein.com/video/virgin-advert.mov
>
> Ouch, Danny! 50 MB? for a 30-second clip? Over my 768 Kb/s DSL line,
> even on an unimpaired connection, that's well over 10 minutes to download.
> This evening it's been 20 minutes, and it's not done downloading yet!
> ... for a 30-second clip? This had better be good ... :-) .
>
> > Saf for work, unless you're at AT&T or TM...
>
> Next time try capturing in a more economical format, please. Thnx. -- tlvp
I'll bet the ad is on YouTube or Vimeo or some other well-known service
where you can stream it.
Re: advertisement poking fun at the AT&T takeover...
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:31:34 +0000 (UTC), danny burstein wrote:
> In <2846keej4jo7$.1ftvvcvr2ktfp.dlg@40tude.net> tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> writes:
>
>>> Try the following (about ten megs):
>>>
>>> http://www.dburstein.com/video/virgin/
>
>>Thanks, Danny. Seeing the first 23 seconds worth of the first, after
>>waiting a good half-hour for that 75% to come in, is good enough for me,
>>so I'll dispense with this new opportunity. Anyway, what Virgin Mobile
>>offers looks like GBS's impression of what Hades must be like -- fun,
>>if you like a noisy, raucous, bumptious kind of fun, hell if you don't.
>>I'll pass :-) .
>
> But you did catch, I hope, their (virgin's) zinger
> about how AT&T ranks last in customer satisfaction...
Yup :-) ... along with the sober at&t suit nodding his head
in the affirmative. But that was around second # 7.
Cheers, -- tlvp
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Re: advertisement poking fun at the AT&T takeover...
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 12:14:31 -0700, Steve Sobol wrote:
> In article <1w3ixs5nktshr.1org8ew0np6ue$.dlg@40tude.net>, tlvp says...
>>
>> On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:09:52 +0000 (UTC), danny burstein wrote:
>>
>>> Virgin Mobile has an advert ...
>>> ... thirty seconds. 50 megs:
>>>
>>> http://www.dburstein.com/video/virgin-advert.mov
>>
>> Ouch, Danny! 50 MB? for a 30-second clip? Over my 768 Kb/s DSL line,
>> even on an unimpaired connection, that's well over 10 minutes to download.
>> This evening it's been 20 minutes, and it's not done downloading yet!
>> ... for a 30-second clip? This had better be good ... :-) .
>>
>>> Saf for work, unless you're at AT&T or TM...
>>
>> Next time try capturing in a more economical format, please. Thnx. -- tlvp
>
> I'll bet the ad is on YouTube or Vimeo or some other well-known service
> where you can stream it.
It streams already (or at least tries to) where it is -- it's just that
it cogs unless it's got a channel good for roughly 2 MB/s (that's 20 Mb/s),
or better, to get transmitted along :-) . (And my DSL is at 0.75 (!) Mb/s.)
Cheers, -- tlvp
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