Narnia Ad

Overview

This is a 30-second promotional spot that appeared on Comcast networks during September 2006. It advertised the airing of The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe on Starz! On-Demand. It stars various people in centaur costumes. I have posted it here because some people wanted to see it and missed it. However, its contents are copyrighted to Comcast, and if they request, I will remove it from this site (but I hope they don't request that, since its posting here is free advertising for them).

Download the Movie

The movie is available in several formats, depending on the speed of your connection and desired quality:

• Medium quality, high resolution - 640x480 - XviD codec - .avi - 22.3 MB
• High quality, low resolution - 320x240 - XviD codec - .avi - 5.8 MB
• Low quality, low resolution - 320x240 - XviD codec - .avi - 1.1 MB
• Compatible (very low quality) - 320x240 - MPEG-1 codec - .mpg - 1.2 MB

About the movies

The XviD AVI movies above require you to have installed the XviD codec, which is open-source and available for free here. If you just need to install the codec on Windows or MacOS X, and don't care about the source code, you can download binary versions for free here.

The "compatible" movie above is plain MPEG, and should be viewable in every movie player in existence, but will probably look pretty bad because MPEG-1 just can't handle low bitrates very well. If you can't view any of the other movies, you should certainly be able to view this one.

Why XviD and not another codec, like QuickTime or DivX or WMV? XviD is an open-source codec, available for multiple platforms, including Windows, MacOS X, and Linux. Like the others, XviD is based on MPEG-4, so it compresses just as well as the three codecs listed above, but it's free, available for all major operating systems, and the source code is available too.

Basic script - 30 seconds long

Man 1: This premiere is huge!
Man 2: Gotta see this in hi-def.
Narrator: Hear what everyone's saying about the HD movie event of the season.
Father: It portrays our kind in... in a positive light, which is nice.
Mother: We're getting ready for the big premiere on Comcast. Jerry is an HD freak!
Daughter: Can't wait!
Father: It's gonna be amazing!
Narrator: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. See the HD premiere at Starz HD On Demand. Only with Comcast digital cable. It's Comcastic!