Please, read this before attempting download of the new HDTV vids.
Please, make sure that you RIGHT-click on the links and use Save-As. Left-clicking does NOT work.
Please, use plain vanilla Internet Explorer for grabbing the vids from www.g18hdtv.com, both standard HDTV and the Blu-ray ones, FireFox doesn’t work OK with them at the moment.
Let me explain what’s happening:
In the last few weeks, we migrated to a completely new server with a completely new concept of data storage and processing, and different version of UNIX. It is a quantum leap in internet hosting, distributed “cloud” processing and distributed, multiple-redundant, massively bigger and massively faster storage.
This new technology is what makes at all possible all these great chunks of good news I’m throwing at you guys. Before this upgrade, serving video in Blu-ray quality was simply impossible. I can now store a hell lot of extra data, both in terms of disk space in terabytes and number of files in millions, AND we can pump to the world far more more terabytes per day then before.
Now, this shiny new technology will most probably need weeks and maybe months of tweaking. There are some memory overrun problems that seem to be fixed by now and the new UNIX brought back the browser compatibility issue that had been fixed already. Before the migration both my Microsoft Internet explorer and my FireFox were able to download from both www.g18hdtv.com and www.g18spot.com just fine, now downloads run just fine with IE but not FireFox. This will be fixed, of course. Right now, the way is simply using IE just for the downloading. I myself also prefer FireFox for everything else.
Please, whatever you see not working, just drop me a line to gregs.helpdesk@gmail.com
Enjoy the new, all upgraded Girls18!
posted by admin at 8:54 am
Ok, this is BOMBASTIC affirmation and as far as I know it’s true.
Our www.G18HDTV.com is THE WORLD’S FIRST SITE to publish videos in Blu-ray quality. Blu-ray means native 1920×1080 resolution encoded at whooping 16Mbps. The data format that Blu-ray discs are encoded is a version of AVCHD, a format in which our raw videos come in from photographers since 2008. I decided not to publish AVCHD on-line because players that play this format well are few for PC and Mac. Instead, we stick to Divx, which gives very much the same crisp image quality when encoded at these lavish 16Mbps, and there are great many free players that play hi-res Divx well.
We now have over 100 Blu-ray videos uploading to www.g18hdtv.com. Today, I released first nine of them. Also, I decided for early release of March standard HDTV videos so www.g18hdtv.com now contains 253 HDTV videos and 9 Blu-ray vids.
posted by admin at 2:43 am
More updates were released in www.g18spot.com today.
Dana’s and Valery’s sections got bigger.
Later today, wel’ll welcome Fanny in the Spot.
Fanny is absolutely GREAT! Her upload is finishig…
posted by admin at 11:39 pm
Today, I have a bombastic piece of news:
G18 will be world’s first teen site to go Blu-ray!
Blu ray HDTV uses a version of 16Mbps AVCHD encoding.
I’ve compared the quality of this signal with 16Mbps Divx and I believe that there’s no quality loss, the formats are perfectly comparable. Yes, there’s visible quality gain from our standard HDTV 8Mbps encoding, especially in scenes with a lot of background complexity, like our favorite water scenes, and also with fine closeups.
AVCHD players are still a big trouble to find, install and run. So for now I think we’ll stick to Divx – but at true Blu-ray quality! Our raw videos are 18Mbps Sony format, which is a version of AVCHD and in a month or so we’ll start getting 24Mbps source signal. So our content is pretty much ready for Blu-ray quality distribution.
I’m reprocessing 88 latest videos into 16Mbps HDTV signal and uploading to www.G18HDTV.com as we speak.
I’ll also reprocess the closeups, now encoded in 1280x720p ar 6Mbps and publish them also in 12Mbps. So as soon as I can process and upload everything, www.g18hdtv.com will contain first 100 Blu-ray vids.
posted by admin at 6:29 pm
In February, our update madness will continue in www.g18hdtv.com
Today, 18 new videos posted increased our video count to 332 and this is not the end of this month’s updates.
A lot of nice updates are comming on-line this month also in www.g18spot.com
posted by admin at 2:46 am
A new version is coming, with lot more free stuff, preview mode of all galleries, access to one full free gallery, download of some full HDTV videos for free. Altogether, non-members get much better idea what Girls18 is all about.
Visit www.g18spot.com today!
posted by admin at 11:08 am