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I switched to 4K discs earlier this year, for the same reasons - no dropouts, no blockiness, no sudden resolution changes. Precaching would solve a lot of these
by chiph 3y ago
I switched to 4K discs earlier this year, for the same reasons - no dropouts, no blockiness, no sudden resolution changes. Precaching would solve a lot of these problems (it's how movie theaters get their films now - via encrypted download). But I do prefer owning the physical media.
I figure that most of the streaming titles will be lost in time. Sure, the equivalent of "Casablanca" will still be available. But series that people are fond of but weren't good enough to win awards .. they'll vanish into the ether.
- TylerE 3y agoThe theater versions are also compressed at a much higher bitrate (although I believe using a not-as-good codec as h265). I've heard 500GGB+ for a 2HR film.
- ianlevesque 3y agoYeah it’s individual JPEG2000 images, which is definitely...a way to do it.
- shiftpgdn 3y agoMy prosumer cinema camera (sigma fp) records video with individual dng files and a wav for audio. I think it’s not that unusual.
- TylerE 3y agoI would imagine a big advantage for the production team is being able to screen it and pause on any single frame and have it be perfect - consumer codecs all seem to use keyframes, which certainly save a lot of space, but if you start on a non-keyframe you either get no output or pixel puke until the next one.
- monocasa 3y agoThey mark which frames they're referring to, so you at most just get a little stutter to decode those other frames if you're optimizing for the scrubber use case.
- ta1243 3y agoNot sure how much benefit there is in h265 over h264 or something like j2k at high bitrates, at low rates h265 certainly is beneficial. Either way 500GB for 2 hours is still significantly compressed - over 90%. Standard UHD 10 bit 30 bits a pixel, even at just 24fps is 384021603024 = 6gbit/sec just for the video alone without audio, ancillary information, and container overhead. I suspect movies work in 12 bit too, and work at 4k, so that's 409621603624 = 7.7gbit/second, or about 7TB for a 2 hour movie.
- KeplerBoy 3y agoWere movies ever displayed at this bitrate in regular theaters?
- PrimeMcFly 3y ago> they'll vanish into the ether. Not as long as piracy is a thing they won't. It will just be illegal to own them.
- starkparker 3y agoConsidering how many unseeded episodes are floating around out there, good luck.
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoI've had no issue getting any episode of anything. You might just be looking in the wrong places.
- Cyph0n 3y agoYou should be downloading season packs instead.
- ta1243 3y agoWhy would I want to pirate when the company making it will take me money?
- justinclift 3y agoBecause they have a habit of removing stuff, and/or retro-actively censoring shows to fit in with whatever the latest witch hunt is. :(
- ta1243 3y agoI've not had this with anything I've "bought". If it were confiscated I certainly would have no qualms in downloading a copy. If something is removed from netflix, that's fine, I'm not paying to buy things I watch on netflix - I'm paying to rent them. I wouldn't copy them any more than I'd copy a VHS I'd rented from blockbuster back in the day.
- avitous 3y ago
- mschuster91 3y ago> I figure that most of the streaming titles will be lost in time. At least there, legislation has us covered - most movie, TV and text products have to be submitted to national archives.
- OJFord 3y agoWhat does that have covered? There's already plenty of digital release only stuff.