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Title: Sprint commercial
Post by: Chestnuts on December 10, 2002, 07:41:19 PM
Just caught part of a Sprint commercial, girl dressed as some sort of superhero girl, capped a little bit of it, here's a screenshot.  
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Palomine on December 11, 2002, 01:16:44 AM
Hey Chestnuts,

First, thanks for the cap! I saw this commercial and thought she was cute (not slender, and kinda funny in that costume, but cute nonetheless) and was going to mention it here... you beat me to it!

Let me compliment you on the quality of your screencap. May I ask how you made it? I assume you have cable or satellite (not broadcast) since it's so clear. What kind of capture card/device did you use? Did you tape it first and then cap, or cap 'live' into the computer. Again, I'm impressed with the sharpness of the image and appreciate the info.

Thanks in advance.

 
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Chestnuts on December 11, 2002, 01:17:38 AM
different scene  
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Chestnuts on December 11, 2002, 04:39:43 PM
My setup:
I have my pc in the basement, where the Time Warner cable tv cable comes into the house, and take one of the cables off of the splitter and hook a cable directly into my ATI card, and cap directly into the pc. I need to clean out my hd, only have about a gig free at the moment.  

I'm using a 1ghz Athlon, 320 megs o' ram, with an ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon card. I believe the video card is capable of up to 500 lines of resolution, don't remember for sure. If I had an empty 30+ gig drive, I could record whole movies to the hd, the ATI card comes with its own version of programmable tv software.  

I lost a bunch of A&E's Cleavage screen caps last night because the damn pc froze up on me, happens occasionally. I defragged my hd two months ago, and now I'm dropping frames sometimes on vidcaps, go figure. I also get better reception on some channels than others, been considering going to a dish setup, most people I know that have them like 'em.

I'm also lusting after the new ATI 9700 All-In-Wonder card, would buy one if I could round up the cash, but any money I have right now is goin' for presents to others.  
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Palomine on December 11, 2002, 06:20:02 PM
Thanks for the info and again for the caps. The thrill of spotting some comely lass of generous proportions on television is akin to that of making such a sighting on the street.... there's that brief rush of discovery, followed by the glow of appreciation. The upside of a television sighting (vs one at the mall or market) is that the television/movie sighting is usually devoid of the depression of unattainibility that generally follows a real-life sighting. JMHO of course.

As I have an iMac, I must rely on external devices for caps, and from what I've read none are that great or cost effective. Guess I'll have to wait till I get a G4 before I can indulge myself with that particular distraction.

Thanks again for the funny zoftig superheroine in the red and silver get-up!
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Chestnuts on December 11, 2002, 10:16:27 PM
Every once in a while I send a request to ATI to make an All In Wonder board for the Mac. I also have an iMac at home, and an ol' PowerCenter Pro(mac clone)upgraded to a G3/400 with a vidcap card in it from Formac; and use G4s at work, G4s that I also have access to anytime after hours for gaming or whatever. There was a rumor a few months back that ATI may make an All In Wonder board, but so far that is all it is, no confirmation at all.  
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Palomine on December 12, 2002, 01:11:00 AM
I'm sure you know more about this than I do, but did Apple put Radeon cards by ATI in some G4s? I think they did/do (then they went to nVidia GeForce and then something else now I think) but probably those cards weren't All-in-wonder cards w/tv tuners and capture capabilities.  
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Chestnuts on December 12, 2002, 01:45:59 AM
Yep, but not All-In-Wonder cards. Accelerate Your Mac website has info on such things, Mac folks complain from time to time there about no AIW cards for Macs.

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Tux on December 12, 2002, 05:31:56 AM
A few years ago, a friend of mine had a rather odd model of Macintosh.  It still used a CD caddy to load CDs and it was single piece machine (monitor and box designed to look like 2 parts, but are really fused together like the Performa 520 to 580) that came in black (this was a really interesting thing considering that this was prior to the 20th Anniversery Mac and the iMac).  It was called the MacTV.  It had a RF port on the back of the machine and a simple keystroke (or a press of the creditcard sized remote) would send it into TV mode.  Where the built-in microphone would be on the monitor of most Macs of that generation, it had the IR eye for detecting command input from the remote.

In case you'd like to see this odd creation:

http://www.lowendmac.com/500/mactv.shtml
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Palomine on December 12, 2002, 07:23:21 PM
On that same site, here's a rumor report about a new low-end G4-based Mac called the iClassic to be released in Jan with a base price of $799. Interestingly, it comes with a slot for an optional TV-tuner card, which is supposed to enable to-disk captures.

http://www.lowendmac.com/rumormill/02/1129.html

Just FYI.
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Tux on December 14, 2002, 07:31:39 AM
Well, this should be interesting to see.
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: JizzTits on December 14, 2002, 08:00:43 PM
wait.... what do Macs have to do with Sprint commercials?
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: sheber on December 14, 2002, 08:04:21 PM
Well, I once knew this guy named Mac who absolutely hated to sprint...
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Tux on December 15, 2002, 04:52:59 AM
Video capture.
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Chestnuts on December 16, 2002, 07:53:34 PM
Another interesting commercial is for Swanson's tv dinners . . . this gal all dressed up for some elegant dining . . .  
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Chestnuts on December 16, 2002, 07:55:06 PM
. . . really enjoys her meal . . .  
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Chestnuts on December 16, 2002, 07:56:56 PM
. . . and forgets herself . . .

I just love it when the girls forget themselves  
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Chestnuts on December 16, 2002, 07:58:15 PM
. . . and let go, mmmmmgood!  
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: D_U_S_K on December 16, 2002, 09:32:03 PM
In reply to:

My setup:
I have my pc in the basement, where the Time Warner cable tv cable comes into the house, and take one of the cables off of the splitter and hook a cable directly into my ATI card, and cap directly into the pc. I need to clean out my hd, only have about a gig free at the moment.

I'm using a 1ghz Athlon, 320 megs o' ram, with an ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon card. I believe the video card is capable of up to 500 lines of resolution, don't remember for sure. If I had an empty 30+ gig drive, I could record whole movies to the hd, the ATI card comes with its own version of programmable tv software.




Um...My computer is shiney...  
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Palomine on December 16, 2002, 11:12:36 PM
A pretty girl, but of course looking like that she wouldn't be eating TV dinners often. And once again, excellent vidcaps... sharp and clear. Thanks.
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Chestnuts on December 17, 2002, 05:08:06 AM
I'm glad you have a shiney computer, mine is looking rather bland and beige, perhaps I'll give it a good waxing; do you wax your pc? How often?  

Oh, and I like The Firm infomercials also.
 
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Tux on December 17, 2002, 09:22:29 AM
You do know that some PC modders paint their cases with automotive paint.  Hence in that case, waxing their cases would do quite a bit of good.
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: rtpoe on December 17, 2002, 09:12:41 PM
ANYTHING to get rid of that malted milk/oatmeal color that PCs come in!

I'd love to have a PC with a wood veneer case with big brass fittings (that actually say "On" and "Off"), or maybe a midnight blue lacquer with chrome trim....

rtpoe  
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Chestnuts on December 17, 2002, 09:43:34 PM
Ya, I read PC Gamer, and there's some fine paint jobs on some of the PC's out there anymore.  
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Tux on December 18, 2002, 08:14:35 AM
Then again the whole automotive paint thing makes sense since a lot of car modding faire (wild paint jobs, ghost flames, neon/EL/CCT/LEDs/Blacklight, odd means of opening the unit, shaved pieces—like faceplates on CD drives, etc) seems to be coming into the PC modding scene.  Maybe I'll get a step ahead of everyone else and start chroming computer components (of course a chromed box and monitor would be difficult to take to a LAN party) since that's the way things seem to be headed.
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: JizzTits on December 18, 2002, 02:10:08 PM
i thought people modded their PC's specifically for LAN parties..
you know, to show off... kinda like when people race their cars...  
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Tux on December 19, 2002, 06:14:55 AM
Exactly!

It's a more or less perfect parallel.  Though people who mod their PCs don't expect 20+ Mhz out of special EIDE cables and better control by lowering the mouse with crude cutting tools (yes, you wouldn't believe what methods people use to lower their cars).

Of course hood pins would be pretty handy on most cases (of course a lot of modders are revelling in thumbscrews found on some high-end cases).
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Chestnuts on December 19, 2002, 02:01:50 PM
I kid around with a couple of pc buddies about "what's under the hood" of their pcs. 7200 rpm hds in raid array, the new 1066 ram, ATI 9700 vid card - dang, the thing should have headers, a blower out the top and slicks on the sides! They even put crude radiators in 'em, besides custom cooling fans, see through cases to show off the cabling, and clear coat finish. And that's just the hardware. Then there's the software . . .  
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Tux on December 20, 2002, 06:43:06 PM
In theory one could put an electric cooling unit (the sort that uses Peltier effect) directly on the processor (or in the case if you can get a strong enough cooling effect out of the unit) and then rig up a dehumidifier to take care of any condensation.  This could reduce the number of fans and maybe eventually irradicate fan usage if the cooling technology advances enough.  I think that Peltier cooling may be more feasible (once enough of the technology hits the market—in fact those cooler boxes that plug into a car cigarette lighter use Peltier cooling, so maybe disassembly of such could yield parts for computer cooling) than those sub-zero compressor based refridgerated cases.
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Palomine on December 20, 2002, 07:59:27 PM
Though I'm a Mac/Unix guy, I keep an eye on the PC world for entertainment purposes (I've subscribed to Maximum PC for ages). Anyway, I distinctly recall a couple years ago (maybe it was around the time the very first Xeon CPUs were being released) seeing some PCs in the magaizne that had their tower cases mounted on top of some kind of cooling apparatus... I gather that the cooled air was forced up into the case and exited at the top.

Personally, I prefer a computer to be as quiet as possible... luckily there are almost always some Macs in Apple's product line that are cooled only by convection and thus need no fan. I believe that the PowerPC CPUs in Macs have fewer transistors (and lower clock speeds) than Pentium or Athlon CPUS since they're RISC and not CISC designs. The noisiest thing in my computer is the hard drive, which I let spin (instead of setting it to spin down when not in use) since I dislike the delay when it has to spin up again for access.

Anyway, that gal in the Sprint commercial (my obvious attempt to bring this thread full circle) is more and more appealing to me every time I see the commercial. She's not super-model material (which is a POSTIVE factor IMHO), but her slightly acerbic character is attractive and saucy. I'd be curious to see how she looks in those silver leotards without that goofy skirt thing she's wearing in that superhero costume.
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Chestnuts on December 22, 2002, 01:00:22 AM
Thought I saw a resemblence between the Sprint girl and this girl from a "Makeover" skit on the Man Show, from a year or two back. What do you think? Kinda hard to tell, I'm leaning toward not, but still . . .
 
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Chestnuts on December 22, 2002, 01:02:10 AM
One more screenshot; I have a short vidclip of her from this show somewhere also . . .  
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Palomine on December 22, 2002, 02:06:30 AM
Somewhat similar, but I think not. The Man Show girl, though pleasantly put together, has a bit more of a Italian or Latina look to her (in a mild way) whereas the Sprint superhero girl struck me as perhaps of Eastern European or Jewish ancestry. JMHO of course... it's hard to tell.  
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Tux on December 22, 2002, 04:28:04 AM
Similar body type, but a different sort of face.
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Chestnuts on December 22, 2002, 08:42:26 PM
Now that I've seen the first part of the commercial, (earlier tonight) I see they're not the same. Still, it's nice to compare.  
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Palomine on December 22, 2002, 10:11:51 PM
Comparing is fun!
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: TheZookie007 on December 23, 2002, 07:27:22 AM
So is talking about PC setups in a topic originally devoted to a hottie in a commercial!

I love going off-road in my friend's RAV4...and I love going off-topic in my friend's topic at the BEA!
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Chestnuts on December 24, 2002, 02:20:56 AM
Yes, you heard it right, it's the offroad championship grudge match, featuring The Zookie vs. Cha Cha Muldowny! First Nippy Nogswallow will interview The Zookie: "Hey Zook, what's your take on the race?" The Zookie: Well, as you know, I'm the King of all racing, and no woman stands a chance against me, in fact all women wish to rub their bodies against mine!" "Cha Cha might as well go home now and avoid the embarrassment!"  
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Chestnuts on December 24, 2002, 02:25:36 AM
Next Nippy will interview Cha Cha: "OK Cha Cha, how are ya gonna beat the ol' Zook?" Cha Cha: "Hi - hey Nippy, where'd you get those implants?"  
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Chestnuts on December 24, 2002, 02:29:14 AM
They're off! It looks like a close race, neck and neck . . . as they come to the finish line, the Zook has a slight lead - but wait! Zookie looks up at the start/finish line to see his old girlfriend pointing him out to her angry father, who's holding a double-barrel shotgun! Quick, head for cover Zookie!  
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Chestnuts on December 24, 2002, 02:32:28 AM
KaPOW!! Too late, good thing The Zookie has a fire-proof suit on!  
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Chestnuts on December 24, 2002, 02:35:22 AM
Cha Cha wins, and is congratulated by Notch "Munchwolf" Johnson. "Thanks for the tip about The Zookie's old girlfriend Notch" quipped Cha Cha.  
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: D_U_S_K on December 24, 2002, 12:42:41 PM
Thunderdome...

How did that one get past the drawing board?
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Chestnuts on December 24, 2002, 04:03:02 PM
You got me there Dusk;

But apparently, only TNN dares to bring such fine programming to prime time.
   
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Palomine on December 24, 2002, 07:53:12 PM
Nice avatar Dusk!
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: TheZookie007 on December 25, 2002, 10:04:58 AM
That was my old girlfriend?! What made me give her up? Temporary insanity?
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Palomine on December 25, 2002, 01:29:21 PM
A site like adcritic.com (which I think is mostly by paid subscription now) proabably has cast lists for the Sprint commercial... and assuming the actress has been working a while, IMDB would probably have her resume... she's likely appeared in other commercials and mayby some small roles on TV sitcoms or even movies. The net is a big place... someone somewhere has probably built a site dedicated to her. You'd only require her name to find such a site eventually.
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: Chestnuts on December 25, 2002, 11:23:49 PM
Zookie: She claimed you talked her into getting those implants, that they didn't turn out as big as she wanted, and then you stuck her with the bill. At least that's what she said. I'll try to "catch" her again sometime, try to help clear this thing up. (If I can cap the show again sometime, it's usually on when I'm at work).

Also, I think I would remember the girl from the Sprint commercial if I'd seen her before, hopefully she's on her way up to bigger and better things.  
Title: Re: Sprint commercial
Post by: MunchWolf on December 26, 2002, 08:55:38 AM
Thank goodness I wouldn't do anything like that ...

-Munch "I would fuck her first ... then I would ..." Wolf