Siggraph 2000 / Get Your Free TVs (GYFTVs)

[clayton0127]

where is the siggraph "free tv's" video
i heard it doesnt exist or its lost.

[Brownie]

there is no recording for it, only a screenshot

[clayton0127]

i thought there was a recording.

[bruno]

i thought there was a recording.

There's no acturall real recording, but there is a description that Mark Laidlaw made when asked about it.


"I do not retain any files from my time at Valve.

The video as I recall was of the viewpoint character moving through some dingy buildings on a deserted street, when around the corner run two citizens carrying old-fashioned boxy television sets. The first one shouts, "TVs! Free TVs!" as he runs past. The second one says, a bit more of a fast mutter, "Get one. Get a TV. Get yourself a TV!" I think as the viewpoint keeps going, you round a corner and see a citizen and a cop in a very awkward scuffle, where the cop tries to konk the citizen with his nightstick and the citizen is trying to protect himself with this fists. Somewhere in here (maybe a different map?) another citizen hurls a molotov at a building and starts a small fire. I think there might be alarms going off the whole time? It was a pretty short clip, and I'm not even sure what it was supposed to demo considering it was SIGGRAPH and not a gameplay demo.

[Also, did they have eyes? In the screenshot the community have seen, they were just white voids.]

Can't recall. Sounds like the model is missing a texture. This was a long time ago so I wouldn't trust my memory. Except for the lines of audio which i remember pretty well. I recorded the lines for Kelly in about 10 seconds and then heard them for years afterward so they are burned in my memory."
-Mark Laidlaw, April 13, 2018

[owojak]

well, there are vhs compression artifacts on the screenshot. which tells us that the screenshot was taken from a video. god knows if the video is still out there.

[The Gman]

well, there are vhs compression artifacts on the screenshot. which tells us that the screenshot was taken from a video. god knows if the video is still out there.

It doesn't have any vhs compression artifacts.

[Evan]

This it?
1:58

[bruno]

This it?
1:58

It's not the real footage, It's just a recreation. Still, it's a very good one showing how the techdemo probably looked like. For now the only media we have from it are the screenshot and the description that Laidlaw made.

[WB]

This it?
1:58

It's not the real footage, It's just a recreation. Still, it's a very good one showing how the techdemo probably looked like. For now the only media we have from it are the screenshot and the description that Laidlaw made.

Yeah, the city_test edit in the video was made by me, with some very slight modifications by Stacker

[Sixteen60]

Who'd thought the Combine would sell TV's?

[boban.pejcic]

File is too big so i uploaded it on mediafire. https://www.mediafire.com/view/reje43tp59aomo5/gyftvs.jpg/file

why did you delete it

[shyruz]

 

ITS REAL!!! Oh my GOD! I'm literally about to cry..
There also seems to be a HD E3 2003 video out now too... I'll check it out when I get home...
This is the real deal... more high quality than I thought...

[PrisenShift]

Bro, I told here that they re gonna release some beta stuff

[shyruz]

I didn't even see that the entire documentary was released..... damn!

[Silvio Dante]

I had to create a profile just for this moment