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Old 23-09-2009, 08:04 PM   #1
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Talking Top Gear Goes HD

http://transmission.blogs.topgear.co...gear-to-go-hd/


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We’ve just heard it confirmed by BBC brass that the next series of Top Gear will be in HD.

That means all the races, supercars sliding from left to right of your telly screens and the boys’ comedic adventure, all in crystal clarity.

As Jeremy said a few weeks’ back, filming is well underway on Series 14 and if all goes to plan it’ll be on your screens by mid-November.

Until then, it’s the usual grainy repeats on Dave – or the bulging archive of on-demand clips we’ve got here at TopGear.com. You should know where they are by now…

I can't wait for this, should be good seeing them finally going hd.

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Old 23-09-2009, 09:16 PM   #2
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cant wait for the 720p rips then
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Old 23-09-2009, 11:39 PM   #3
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time to uprate my download limit
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Old 24-09-2009, 11:37 AM   #4
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Has anything ever been recorded by the Top Gear boys about their opinion
of gritty Aussie Fords, i.e, B series Falcons? (Maybe they've never heard of them?)
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Old 24-09-2009, 03:58 PM   #5
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how big would an episode of HD Top Gear be to download??
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Old 24-09-2009, 04:11 PM   #6
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how big would an episode of HD Top Gear be to download??
reference: movie crank II
dvd: 700~900mb
B/ray 720p 4~5gb
B/ray 1080p 10~11gb
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Old 24-09-2009, 05:03 PM   #7
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reference: movie crank II
dvd: 700~900mb
B/ray 720p 4~5gb
B/ray 1080p 10~11gb
Movies are longer.
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Old 24-09-2009, 06:07 PM   #8
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Movies are longer.
they may be longer, but my SD Top Gear episodes are already 700mb :(

going by that, id say it would be at least 2gb per episode
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Old 25-09-2009, 07:46 PM   #9
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they may be longer, but my SD Top Gear episodes are already 700mb :(

going by that, id say it would be at least 2gb per episode
I doubt 2GB mate. 1gb-1.3gb I reckon.
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Old 24-09-2009, 04:00 PM   #10
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700mb-1gb for 720p
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Old 24-09-2009, 04:31 PM   #11
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big files for something i watch once and delete straight after, we need unlimited downloads badly
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Old 24-09-2009, 04:40 PM   #12
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Old 24-09-2009, 05:14 PM   #13
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Old 24-09-2009, 06:23 PM   #14
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Not necessarily. For example, when Simpsons went HD, the size of the files remained at 175Mb
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Old 24-09-2009, 06:26 PM   #15
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Not necessarily. For example, when Simpsons went HD, the size of the files remained at 175Kb
175kb, that must be a real short episode. :

No comparison though. Cartoons use a lot of solid, constant colours which compress really well.

I'd be expecting at least double the size of the current download.
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175kb, that must be a real short episode. :

No comparison though. Cartoons use a lot of solid, constant colours which compress really well.

I'd be expecting at least double the size of the current download.
Oops. Fixed

How about that my movie collection is roughly 700Mb each when they're similar in length, yet some are SD, some HD.
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Old 24-09-2009, 06:35 PM   #17
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If the size of the file is small then the resolution is degraded.

I wonder how Top Gear has been sold on Bluray at 1080P if it has never been recorded in HD? Maybe it has just never been broadcast in HD before.
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Old 24-09-2009, 10:35 PM   #18
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True Blood HD is 590-700mb per episode, 1 hour.If you haven't seen this, as Molly would say "do yourself a favour " sex, violence ,Vampires being bad Vampires, Has Steve Kawanten in it, ex=Home and Away.. usual HBO excellence.
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Old 28-09-2009, 07:02 PM   #19
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Only the Polar special was recorded in HD, as far as I know this is the only one to be released so far on Blu Ray

The rest are recorded and broadcast in 576p (Despite what SBSHD says, likely upscaled to 720p)
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Only the Polar special was recorded in HD, as far as I know this is the only one to be released so far on Blu Ray

The rest are recorded and broadcast in 576p (Despite what SBSHD says, likely upscaled to 720p)
that ep 1080p 7+gigs
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Old 28-09-2009, 07:38 PM   #21
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just some useless helpful information

HD is and will only ever be classified in 4 different resolutions

720i
720p
1080i (aka FULL HD)
1080p (aka FULL HD)

SD or easier terms this is what your DVD player outputs without upscaling is

576i
576p

in reference to the file sizes, its gets even more confusing when you factor in the bitrate (or FPS) of the HD broadcast.... and also what your TV/display can output and what your recording device can input

the more frames per second the more information to record the bigger the filesize
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Old 28-09-2009, 08:29 PM   #22
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720p rips of shows of around 45min length in x264 and 5.1 are 1.1gb.

so as campo said about 1gb-1.3gb would be on the money.
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