If you weren’t one of the 1,800 people who attended TechCrunch50 earlier this month to watch 52 startups launch, and didn’t catch the UStream live stream of the event, don’t worry. You can download around 25 hours of live footage - the entire three day conference - if you’ve got the room on your hard drive. The BitTorrent links are below. Each file is about 5 GB.
You can also watch individual demo’s and sessions via streaming. The files are linked from here and have also been uploaded to each company’s Crunchbase profile (example).
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i’ll check out the streaming ones
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Lance, your name has a clickable link. There was no need to paste it into your comment.
A summary would be much better.
http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/techcrunch50/
Downloading it now. Will share for the next 30 days.
i’ll check out the streaming ones
5 gigs is no bueno
that’s per day.
I would love to find something on streaming format (youtube?)
well it’s lucky I linked to that then.
Lol
Thanks for this - I wish more conference organizers will do this!
Will definitely try to check out the streaming one, Definitely have room on my HD for the download, but I don’t really feel like d/l all that data. But will do streaming!
I was watching Ashton Kutcher’s prez the other day but how come he didn’t get any feedback or comments from the panel??
Very nice but would be better if it wasn’t just one huge file for a day.
Way to go Michael, thanks a bunch for these recordings! *thumbs_up* Gonna pump them down asap!
Hi Michael.
Are you sure video are Ok? I just downloaded the first one: It doesn’t work with MPC, only a tiny portion of video is visible in QuickTime, even worse in VLC. I’m not sure single 5Gb mov was a good idea. :s
Anyway I hope for a solution, I really want to see it.
I just downloaded day 1, day 2 and day 3.
day 1 works up to 34 minutes. Then its dead space and then about 5hrs in it has sound and a dead screen.
day 2, dead space.
day 3, dead space.
DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME DOWNLOADING… (at this time)
Did someone check this before uploading ??
files are in QT format btw.
Let us know when you have resolved the uploads.
Thank you again.
btw it is also unfortunate that the camera only focused on the speaker and provided no screen display from the stage. You lose a lot of the internet experience of the website being explained during the presentation.
so the files are fine, you just need to give your machine time to process them if it isn’t super high end the files are huge). Try VLC if you need it to work right away. And the camera often cuts to the screen for the demo.
Same here, Day 1 stops when Jason Calacanis stops for lunch or so. Day 2 goes wierd and 3 as well. Quicktime is crashing on the files, VLC as well; for some reason I can only play the files via leopards build in QT viewer in the finder…
the files are fine.
Michael,
My setups,
fast rig 64-VISTA, Quad Core. 4gb ram. No files play. Day One, stops at 34.10 into the movie.
Ported to Apple AIR, running Leopard of course, same results exactly.
File sizes as per torrent downloads,
Day ONE, 4.29 GB (4,613,961,753 bytes)
Day TWO, 4.87 GB (5,234,454,805 bytes)
Day THR, 5.85 GB (6,290,284,778 bytes)
Non-playable for me. Can anyone play these files after downloading?
Some updates when using VLC 0.9.2. w/VISTA-64
Day ONE, still encounters problems and creates two windows at the 34.10 moment (after BlahBlah presentation w/AK). Something really wrong here.
Day TWO, not playable. blank.
Day THREE, now playable w/VLC, complete.
WIsh everyone good luck.
Bill.
I get the 2 window thing in VLC as well, the second window is marked ‘direct3d output’ The first window has no sound.
Michael,
I watched more than half of the presentations live over ustream.
The camera work *does* need improvement. Too little time spent
showing the screens, esp when the presenter is obviously watching
the screen already.
great. why don’t you attend in person next year.
Saved me from downloading ….
The stream was and is available in techcrunch50, unless someone plans to remove it.
Awesome! Thanks!
Stuff like this totally increases my liklihood of more and more return visits to techcrunch.com
Thanks!
Does anyone have time on their hands to edit a 1-2 hour highlights reel? Say someone in a Stanford dorm room who wants to suck up to TechCrunch for a future internship? That would be really ideal.
What about subtitles ? Do these videos have English subtitles mike ? You must include it in some way.
Why couldn’t blog world expo have done this? Is it really so difficult? Every convention should have a video record, imo.
Here’s a new website idea: video records of high scholl athletic events. Sports websites are hot (because they draw serious traffic) - someone should make it easy for parents to tape their kids and make them public.
Ted,
The cost of doing really good video like this is probably $10-20k a day with the pre-planning, video crew during the event and the work post-event.
best, Jason
“demo’s”? lol, why does illiterate people think ALL plurals are made with “’s”?
THE PLURAL OF DEMO IS “DEMOS”, YOU TURD.
I would love to find something on streaming format (youtube?)