Voice of Victory - Black Wrinkle Heaven!

[Ed-VA3ES]

DVD Industries  has released a high quality transfer of the Voice of Victory on DVD Video.

"Recall the valiant history documenting how Amateur Radio and the Hallicrafters HT-4 teamed up with the U.S. Army Signal Corps to help win World War II.   Follow the evolution of the Hallicrafters HT-4 transmitter from its origins as a high-end, highly sought and world renowned Amateur Radio transmitter to mil-spec fortification for battlefield use as the venerable BC-610!"

http://www.dvdindustries.com/html/victory.html  for more info. Or, you can watch (and download the movie) at: http://www.archive.org/details/VoiceofV1944.

It's a great flick, lot's  of views of the BC-610 in manufacture, and in use.  Great ham radio scenes too.  Ahh...black wrinkle heaven!

[W1UJR]

Wish someone would put the "Radio Hams" movie on a DVD.
My YouTube download is pretty low quality.

[Ed-VA3ES]

Wish someone would put the "Radio Hams" movie on a DVD.
My YouTube download is pretty low quality.

That's due to the compression YouTube uses to convert to .flv  format.   Converting back to MPEG is very lossy.

How did you download it; did you use Vixy.net or some other  facility?

[ka3zlr]

Great piece on Americana, nice find.....

[W1UJR]

That's due to the compression YouTube uses to convert to .flv  format.   Converting back to MPEG is very lossy.

How did you download it; did you use Vixy.net or some other  facility?

Steve HUZ gave me the info, worked like a charm, but the resolution is low when played on a larger screen.

Priceless piece, like the Voice of Victory film.

Tnx for posting Ed!

[Sam KS2AM]

Wish someone would put the "Radio Hams" movie on a DVD.
My YouTube download is pretty low quality.

That's due to the compression YouTube uses to convert to .flv  format.   Converting back to MPEG is very lossy.

How did you download it; did you use Vixy.net or some other  facility?

If you have the current version of Real Player installed, downloading videos from YouTube and other sites as well as burning them to CD or DVD is very simple.  No need to jump through hoops.

With Real Player installed you will see a floating toolbar pop up above the video when you do a mouse-over.

1) Just click on the "Download This Video" toolbar and the video will be downloaded to your Real Player library. You can click on several videos if you like and they will be downloaded simultaneously.
2) If you want to burn the video(s) to a Video CD or DVD, just click the Burn/Transfer option in Real Player, select the video(s) you like from your library, insert CD or DVD and click "Burn".   Thats it !

The free Real Player can be used to create Video CD's which most DVD players know how to play and is just fine for most anything you see on YouTube.  You need the Real Player premium version to be able to burn DVD's and "Super Video" CDs.


Sam  /  KS2AM

[Ed-VA3ES]

Unfortunately, I have an aversion to Real Player and it's softare.  It gets up my computer's backside and messes with it (registry).  I'd prefer not to use Real Player if possible.

[Sam KS2AM]

Unfortunately, I have an aversion to Real Player and it's softare.  It gets up my computer's backside and messes with it (registry).  I'd prefer not to use Real Player if possible.

Hmmm...  I've never had an issue with Real Player on the dozens of machines I've installed it on running XP, Vista, Windows 2000, etc over the last several years.  You just need to pay attention to the setup screens because they like to make it the default player for all media types, install the Google toolbar and other assorted nonsense.  Real Player gets along well with WMP, Quicktime, DivX, Rhapsody and whatever else I've installed it with.  Oh well, to each his own.  Good luck Ed.

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

Nice tip. I don't think the issue was burning the video to CD or DVD, it was the resolution.

Wish someone would put the "Radio Hams" movie on a DVD.
My YouTube download is pretty low quality.

That's due to the compression YouTube uses to convert to .flv  format.   Converting back to MPEG is very lossy.

How did you download it; did you use Vixy.net or some other  facility?

If you have the current version of Real Player installed, downloading videos from YouTube and other sites as well as burning them to CD or DVD is very simple.  No need to jump through hoops.

With Real Player installed you will see a floating toolbar pop up above the video when you do a mouse-over.

1) Just click on the "Download This Video" toolbar and the video will be downloaded to your Real Player library. You can click on several videos if you like and they will be downloaded simultaneously.
2) If you want to burn the video(s) to a Video CD or DVD, just click the Burn/Transfer option in Real Player, select the video(s) you like from your library, insert CD or DVD and click "Burn".   Thats it !

The free Real Player can be used to create Video CD's which most DVD players know how to play and is just fine for most anything you see on YouTube.  You need the Real Player premium version to be able to burn DVD's and "Super Video" CDs.


Sam  /  KS2AM

[Ed-VA3ES]

Nice tip. I don't think the issue was burning the video to CD or DVD, it was the resolution.

Agreed.   I used an on-line facility (Vixy.net) which worked well.  The resolution issue is because of YouTube's  compresssion to fit both the tiny YouTube screens and the bandwidth on their site.    My copy of "Radio Hams" is watchable in full screen, but  "blocky" and lacks resolution.   

Oh well...what can you do? 

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

The Voice of Victory, on the other hand, can be downloaded in rather high resolution - either MPEG 2 or 4. Several hundred Meg each and in two part.

That site also has lots of other neat historic films. Like the two below.

• Military training film on a New York radio station, WMCA, owned by the Nathan Straus family, showing its ownership, management and activities. Good view of radio in the era when most stations were locally owned and operated.
  
  http://www.archive.org/details/Independ1951
  
  
• U.S. Navy opens 1 megawatt transmitter in Cascade Mountains of Washington, known as 'Radio Jim Creek.' Newsreel story.
  
  http://www.archive.org/details/LargestR1950
  
  

Many more if you take a look around!