Downloadable TPR Expedition iPod/DVD

[MG]

Hi Robb, ages ago you mentioned that you might introduce downloadable versions of the Coaster Expeditions for iPod to the store. Are there still plans afoot to do this? I

[robbalvey]

There are! I was actually planning on releasing a few of them a couple of weeks ago, but I got side tracked with getting Raw 3 and Vol 12 finished up.

 

It's one of about three things on the top of my "to do" list so expect to see some new iPod downloads available soon!

 

On another note - one of the reasons for the delay is I've been playing around with some new compression software and we have actually upgrade the current RAW iPod downloads. Now that the new files seem to be a success I'll be doing more!

 

--Robb

[King of Ka]

About the downloadable DVDs, would they also be available as .isos for burning to a DVD, or just .mp4s? Would they be of high enough quality to watch on a TV (via XBOX 360), or pretty much limited to iPod-sized screens?

[TPDave]

I watched CE1 on a 24" screen a couple of days ago and it looked great so the quality is not a problem

[robbalvey]

About the downloadable DVDs, would they also be available as .isos for burning to a DVD, or just .mp4s? Would they be of high enough quality to watch on a TV (via XBOX 360), or pretty much limited to iPod-sized screens?

They are only downloadable as mp4 files. This issue with .iso files is the file size. The iPod files are only about 600-800 megs each, but an .iso of each disc would be about 4.5 gigs! If you figure that I'm eventually going to have our entire library available for download, well, that's currently 12 volumes of Coaster Expedition and 3 volumes of RAW, each being 2 discs, so if someone wanted to download the whole lot at once that would be 135 gigs worth of data!

 

Unfortunatley the TPR store just does not have that kind of bandwidth power.

 

It would end up costing me WAY more in bandwidth charges than the store would make via the downloads!

 

It's a good idea, just not feasable right now in TPR's life.

 

And $5 for shipping is not terrible. I know other sites that charge more.

 

--Robb

[King of Ka]

Ah, I understand, I hadn't thought about file size. I might still download, now that Dave says it I did remember CE1 being good quality, so the .mp4s would work fine.

 

And I think TPR's prices are very reasonable, but I've got to find something to do with the stack of discs I have sitting here.

[MG]

Ah good I'm glad the project hasn't been abandoned. This sounds very promising Robb.