[bootlegga]

desertdude desertdude:

bootlegga bootlegga:

desertdude desertdude:

Mostly these songs have a different mix and master for youtube to sound louder and better on shitty laptop speakers or eaebuds, now there is a whole new term in audio engineering for it called itunes mastering.

So if you're even a bit of an audiophile or don't like your audio to sound like its coming from a toilet bowl you'll avoid the youtube audio rips.

Yeah, I'm not an audiophile, so it doesn't bother me. Heck, I only switched from cassette to CDs when someone gave me a free CD player!

And you probably don't mind watching those horrible pirated prints shot in a cinema with a potato where the screen appears as it would through the eyes of someone who has cataract and you can hear people talking to themselves in the theatre rather than the dialogue and halfway through the potato falls on its side and you have to watch rest of the movie lying on your side.

Audio and video just as it was meant to be seen as heard

No, I don't care for CAM versions of movies. I can't think of any movie that is so good I would watch it in that format.

Either I see it in the theatre (rare lately because of the little ones) or I get from the library (much more likely). The library here lets you take out up to 40 items at a time and keep most of them for 3 weeks, with up to two renewals on top of that (assuming the item doesn't have a hold on it).

Honestly, I still enjoy my VCR for movies.

I can fast forward through commercials, trailers, FBI warnings, etc and just watch the movie. And because I bought my movies in Letterbox format, the picture is almost as good as a DVD (16:9 aspect ratio and Dolby sound). The only problem is that I only have a couple dozen movies on VHS and that they don't make new ones in that format any longer.

The only way to play DVDs now is to load it and then go do something else for 10 minutes, which I find annoying.

[bootlegga]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

stratos stratos:

Don't download that movie just watch it. Don't download that song just listen to it. Treat your computer like a TV or Radio and you won't run into trouble with the law.

Viewing or listening to something on the net is a download whether you save it or not.

No, it's not. Stratos is talking about streaming, not downloading.

It's just as different as reading a news article online versus grabbing a hard copy paper and taking it home.

[desertdude]

Just because you have a letter boxed forced aspect ratio of 16:9 doesnt mean you have good guality or anywhere close to DVD ( a dying format in itself being rapidly replaced by Blu Ray ) VHS has or should I more appropriately say had a resolution of 352x240, letter box it and its drops down even more. DVD has a rez of 720x480 and todays HD is 1920x1080, a smart phone has better rez than VHS.

Last time I even saw a VHS player was somewhere in early 2000's and we had a video rental shop. Someone needs to sit you down in front of a large HDTV and play your favourite film on Blu Ray, maybe then you'll come to your senses and ditch your caveman tech.

On a different note some of todays audio engineers like to run just an audio signal through a VCR just add that vintage analogue colour to it.

P.S : Please dont tell me you still own a CRT TV !

[bootlegga]

desertdude desertdude:

Just because you have a letter boxed forced aspect ratio of 16:9 doesnt mean you have good guality or anywhere close to DVD ( a dying format in itself being rapidly replaced by Blu Ray ) VHS has or should I more appropriately say had a resolution of 352x240, letter box it and its drops down even more. DVD has a rez of 720x480 and todays HD is 1920x1080, a smart phone has better rez than VHS.

Maybe, but I never really noticed the 'huge' difference in the jump between cassette and DVD. I watch movies for the story, not the how clear some dude in the background of a massive battle scene is...special effects are nice, but a good story beats them everytime!

desertdude desertdude:

Last time I even saw a VHS player was somewhere in early 2000's and we had a video rental shop. Someone needs to sit you down in front of a large HDTV and play your favourite film on Blu Ray, maybe then you'll come to your senses and ditch your caveman tech.

On a different note some of todays audio engineers like to run just an audio signal through a VCR just add that vintage analogue colour to it.

Nah, I've got two Blu-rays (three if you count my PS3), each hooked up to one of my 42 inch HDTVs (a mere 120 HZ, not 240) and I've got a dozen or two movies on Blu-Ray.

Frankly, I don't see much difference when I watch any of the Bourne movies or any of the other action movies I own. Even Avatar wasn't so much better that it was worth the extra $5 or whatever I paid for the Blu-Ray disc (as opposed to regular DVD).

Just last weekend I watched Falling Down on my VHS (hooked up to an old 27 inch CRT TV) - I didn't care about the resolution on bit, just that the movie is freaking awesome!

Blu-ray is okay (although the constant updates for them is another piss-off), but I simply don't see what all the hoopla is about. Certainly, I haven't noticed enough difference to spend the extra cash on Blu-ray movies when I do buy a movie.

desertdude desertdude:

P.S : Please dont tell me you still own a CRT TV !

Yep, one that sits in the basement (hooked up to a Wii, VCR and DVD player). It pretty much only gets used when I watch a VHS movie.

[desertdude]

Me and you can no longer be friends

[BeaverFever]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

Wow, we're posting last year's news now?

Huh, didn't notice the date...

[Public_Domain]

[Freakinoldguy]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

desertdude desertdude:

Soundcloud.com is good site for music from mainstream to indie musicians with many free and legal downloads too.

http://music.cbc.ca/ as well. Some good streaming 'stations'. Don't know if it's available outside of Canada though.

sirius xm....$15 a month.

When it's time to renew give me a shout and I'll tell you how to get them to give it to you for less the $10.00 a month.

It's a couple of step process but it works and the best part is it doesn't involve any coupons or other crap.

[Public_Domain]

[BRAH]

Time could be better spent going after those who distribute child porn, but who am I to know what's a priority?

[BRAH]

stratos stratos:

Don't download that movie just watch it. Don't download that song just listen to it. Treat your computer like a TV or Radio and you won't run into trouble with the law.

That's why Mega Video was good just streamed whatever I was watching.

[Tyler_1]

Are TV shows allowedÉ
Are all the baddies going to be in trouble or will it be kinda like the lotteryÉ
I guess I`m asking in French all of a sudden.