I am beginning to watch some Counter-Strike demos at the moment. I watch them with viewdemo because the slowmotion with playdemo ruined my enjoyment. If I recall correctly, the black lines at the top and the bottom weren't there is playdemo before, and that's how I want it now. I tried to find out how to get playdemo without slowmotion, but then I realized it looked exactly like viewdemo.

I used to prefer HLTV demos to in-eyes demos because I enjoyed the anticipation and exciting of watching the tactics in motion and seeing how everything played out. However, I have later found that watching in-eyes demos is much more enjoyable because watching it is much more real, which adds to the intensity. Is seems as if you experience everything much more clearly, and something which would have not impressed you when watching HLTV, seems better when watching in-eyes demos.

Now, I realize that HLTV demos man never look exactly like in-eyes demos, but one thing that would really help is removing those black bars that distract you and keep you from getting a full view. And the sound - isn't that different as well?

I did a lot of searching - mostly about tweaking in general and the slowmotion thing - but I haven't found anything on this.

I just realized what's worse than having to watch with the black bars: laggy demos. Can it really be true that no demos were released from last WCG? I couldn't find any. It seems that every HLTV demo put on Gotfrag is really laggy, and it's almost impossible to enjoy. Often it even cuts out the sound and graphic effects of shooting. Truly horrible.

I'm watching emuLate vs. A-Gaming now, but it's really a hard thing to do :o ...

Watch HLTV demos for strats or watching your favorite team in a tournament. Watch POV demos for watching a player's skill or movement.
The black bars you speak of can probably be removed with hud_0, but that would remove all of the other things like their HP. Slowmotion only happens with some demos, From the EM demos I watched last weekend, there was 0 slowmotion. I dragged the demo into cstrike, typed viewdemo x in console, and bam.

Yeah, I know that slowmotion only happens to some demos. It seems to have been happening with any demo I've watched the last six months, though. It doesn't happen with viewdemo, of course.

And yes, I tried hud_draw 0, but that doesn't really work. That's why I'm looking for something that does, seeing that no in-game command seems to do the trick.

And yes, you might watch the HLTV and in-eyes demos for different reasons, but that doesn't mean that experience cannot be the same. I prefer HLTV demos because I can see the individual skill AND the other stuff. However, it's just not the same experience. Back when I started watching Counter-Strike demos, it was very easy for me to live myself into everything, and thus HLTV demos were more than enough. Now I don't have the same passion and focus and I often fast forward to the action.

It's becouse of the lowrate HLTV hosting ^.^ ... but that's what u get 4 free. (:
Trry recording usign ur HLTV from CS ... and then watch it... u will see that it is like real ineyes... not the laggy HLTV.org ones...