Opening nite honoring Red pregame and postgame shows for download

[Snoopy the Celtics Beagle]

Alex,

Thank you very much for your hard work.

Kim,

Thank you, also, for YOUR hard work.

this is really cool.  I snagged the other two items already, and it 
was wonderful

At 04:51 PM 11/6/2006, Alex Goldblatt wrote:

>Folks,
>
>Just uploaded the half-time tribute to Red and Paul's (very emotional)
>speech at the opening  ceremony - enjoy!
>
>I see no problem in doing it again since we already blazed the trail - send
>your requests, but please be patient and reasonable because of the
>video file sizes and amount of work editing them.
>
>AG
>
>
>On 11/4/06, Kim Malo <kmalo17 at verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hey all-
> > Snoopy and anyone else interested - thanks to Alex Goldblatt's above
> > and beyond efforts the pre and postgame shows from opening night are
> > available for download. They're still large files - these are video
> > files, after all - but he changed the format to make them much more
> > reasonable - I downloaded the pregame, which is twice as long as the
> > post game, in about half an hour. I did have to install a little
> > Codec program http://www.xvid.org/Downloads.15.0.html to show the
> > video in Windows Media after, since the result was MPEG4 - I
> > initially just got the sound - but that was very easily done.
> >
> > So how do you do it?
> > If you have an ftp program, the host is malincholia.com
> >
> > If you don't have one, and use Internet explorer you can drag and
> > drop it onto your computer by going to ftp://ftp.malincholia.com
> >
> > If you use another browser and don't have an FTP program, yell and
> > I'll try to help.
> >
> > However you get there, to login:
> > Account ID is  u35806748-celtics
> > and since I really hate posting account IDs and passwords in public
> > archives, and I've already done it once let me just say that the
> > password is, all small letters, the last name of the man being
> > honored followed by his age when he died. No spaced in between.
> >
> > Yell if you have any problem.
> >
> > Alex was working on doing the same for the game itself, but that file
> > is just humungus and a godawful amount of work to try to do and
> > probably the result would still be more than anyone really wants to
> > try to download. I told him I thought Snoopy and others who spoke up
> > were really looking for the pregame special ceremonies and not to
> > drive himself crazy trying to do that. Just mentioning it in case I
> > was wrong about that.
> >
> > He'd also expressed willingness to do this again. I'd really rather
> > not use up the bandwidth to host copies for download of every game
> > but yell next time there's something special being shown and we'll
> > try to work it out.
> >
> > Everyone shou;d give kudos to Alex for his hard work and let me know
> > if you have any problems getting to it.
> > Kim
> >
> >
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