fcisler
Premium
join:2004-06-14
Riverhead, NY
| Plain and simple
Why a pay service doesn't interest me:
-I can get a HD quality (768) episode of...oh...lets say Family Guy. Does iTunes offer me that?
-As a sub point to that - even if I purchase the DVD - it's not HD!
-Companies think that a very compressed low quality video will cut it. I download 20+ GB HD DVD/Blu-ray rips - I want the option of a very good quality show/movie.
-NO DRM! I'm NOT watching it embedded in your website or player. I have a TV computer, a PDA, a phone and possible a DVD. I want to be able to go back and forth between them, and use it in a format which is convenient to me.
-Standard format. XviD, mkv, DivX, MP4 - I don't care...as long as your not going to use WMV or real (or any other format which I cannot easily obtain a codec for and transcode to any format I want)
Again....what does a pay service (amazon, iTuned) provide that I should care about? I have firewire from my DVR to my computer. I can record any show I want. Why should I pay them again? |
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hopeflicker
Capitalism breeds greed
Premium
join:2003-04-03
Long Beach, CA
| I also feel that these "ones and zeros" that pass through my cable/dsl modem should not be illegal when those exact same "ones and zeros" that pass through my STB are completely legal.
And if you are gonna cry about the "well the content provider is not making money when you dl from the web" scenario, then what say you when i skip the commercials VIA my cable company owned DVR?
It just doesn't make sense.
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dadkins
Merry Whatever
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
 ·Comcast
| reply to fcisler
Damn Right!
I have two laptops that are DVRs(TV tuner, MPEG2 recording).
I have several editing softwares that make short work of nuking commercials.
A couple can export in a variety of formats...
Or,
Download whatever and...
Sony ClicktoDVD? Gee! How much easier can it get? LOL!
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dadkins
Merry Whatever
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
·Comcast
| reply to hopeflicker
Skipping commercials...
I have a VCR(yeah a VCR!) with this neat button on the remote - "Commercial Skip".
Can anyone tell me what that button is used for? 
OTA shows(network programming) has been paid in full, PERIOD!
Now if I download a network show, WTF is so bad about that?
The program was paid in full when it was aired, I am paying for my internet connection(Hello! Comcast?) and the source is paying someone as well.
So, there is this paid in full show that it costing ME and THE SOURCE for transport.
Bitch Bitch Bitch is all I am hearing from these sniveling pay sites.
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