Bring back the show download sizes

[phantomjoemalone]

Is it possible to list the size of the downloads again? I don't want to start grabbing a 300 meg file when the small 98 meg file size would do me just as well, when I can't stream online. It was just a small matter of convience. Thank you, keep up the good job.


Shawn

[ste116]

i agree with what he said also could you leave the download tab open by default i'm having issues were it refuses to open

[kanosha]

I was about to start a new thread on this but it seems like there is already one. :)

But definitely please bring back the file sizes because I always looked at that to determine which version of a video to download.

[algibson]

i'll second bringing back the file-sizes, I also used them to judge which version to download.

Thanks

[tokenuser]

Hypothetical:

The show is 22min long.
You have 2 downloads to choose from HD and small quicktime.
A train is going to leave the station heading west at 65MPH, and another is going to head east at 75MPH, but have 4 stops along the way.

Which is file going to be the smaller file size ....

Times up.

Did you really need a file size to know that?

[kanosha]

If all shows were the same length and the same size all the time for each different format then I wouldn't argue however they aren't and in some instances I have seem one format larger then the other format for large and same for small for one week and then different the next.

I only have a set quota per month from my ISP and I would like to go ok this week's whatever episode is 400MB for the Large Xvid maybe I will go for the small Xvid this time since I don't want to spend my quota on what doesn't appear to be a super exciting episode.

Or oh the high def episode for this week only is 200MB, maybe I will get that one instead of the 80MB one.

Edit: I know it may sound like a simple case of yes this one is bigger then the other one but the last thing I want to do is download the HD episode which for this week has gone for over an hour and is therefore 800MB and then find that I have just chewed up nearly a GB for an episode after downloading it.

[phantomjoemalone]

Hypothetical:

The show is 22min long.
You have 2 downloads to choose from HD and small quicktime.
A train is going to leave the station heading west at 65MPH, and another is going to head east at 75MPH, but have 4 stops along the way.

Which is file going to be the smaller file size ....

Times up.

Did you really need a file size to know that?



I understand what you were saying, but for me at my office, quality is not an issue when I watch the shows at lunch time. We are on a limited bandwidth speed so I dont want to be grabbing a show that will take 2 hrs to download vs 40 mins, for the large vs small wmv file. Thats why I would like to have the sizes back.

Shawn Price
Sr Engineer

[tokenuser]

I understand what you were saying, but for me at my office, quality is not an issue when I watch the shows at lunch time. We are on a limited bandwidth speed so I dont want to be grabbing a show that will take 2 hrs to download vs 40 mins, for the large vs small wmv file. Thats why I would like to have the sizes back.

Shawn Price
Sr EngineerThen watch the flash version .. if a show is 22min long - thats how long it will take to watch. No downloading necessary.

[nextgenxbox]

I only have a set quota per month from my ISP...

Wow that sucks. Where the hell do you live?

[phantomjoemalone]

Then watch the flash version .. if a show is 22min long - thats how long it will take to watch. No downloading necessary.

Thats the thing i do end up watching the flash most of the time, but I can't keep the browser up on my screen all the time, makes it look like your screwing around at work vs having WMP or VLC shrunk in the task bar.