2008 Olympics: Opening Ceremony, Seven's AU Coverage

XXIX Olympiad: 2008 Olympic Games. Beijing, China; August 8, 2008, 8:00 p.m. Beijing Time This torrent is Channel 7 Australia's (Victoria, South and Western Australia) coverage of the games. Commentators: Bruce McAvaney, Sonia Kruger, Ric Birch encoded in XivD Resolution: 640x352 (apparently from an HD Source?) Audio is 125 Kb/s mpga Video Length: 4:12:25 The video does cut in and out occasionally through the different scene changes throughout the ceremony, to add in extra clips the preface the performances. No commercials (I assume they have been edited out); the commentators have the good sense to shut up through most of the ceremonies, only making limited comments or adding additional information about the performances or athletes featured in the ceremony. I can't take credit for this upload, as I am not the originator of this video; just found it online, unrar'd the 23 100mb parts, and created the preview & torrent, and uploaded it here. This video includes: Opening Ceremonies, Choreographed Dances, Introduction of the Delegations, and the torch lighting. This video also includes the "Faked" fireworks (http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/08/11/1541249.shtml), which appear at 11:13 in the broadcast. Quality is pretty good, as you can see from the preview I have included with the torrent. Enjoy, and PLEASE help me seed this as long as you can -- The other downloaders will thank you (^_^) p.s. Sorry, I apparently Fucked Up the video preview -- it may not play or throw errors in your run-of-the-mill video player, but works fine in VLC -- just fyi ;-)

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bonker99 (2008-08-12)

I think the Aussie broadcast is the best available so far (tho it's UNBELIEVABLE that noone appears to have the CBC or BBC broadcasts in HD!!) - unfortunately, it's only been made available at a relatively low bitrate of 3000kbps or so and it shows a bit in places so the quest is on to find a source as good as this but at a better bitrate :)

dchabj (2008-08-18)

does this have full parade(of all countries)?

heathen3017 (2008-08-18)

Please seed.