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Probably about as quickly as the Netflix-only House of Cards ended up on The Pirate Bay: about 2 hours after its release.

by gibybo 14y ago

rayiner 14y ago
At equal quality?
- shitlord 14y ago
  I don't know what the original quality is, but for TV, there are usually 2 or 3 release formats (excluding webrips): standard quality (about half the height/width of 720p), 720p, and 1080p. The standard quality and 720p are usually posted a few minutes after the show airs, and the 1080p usually comes a long time later. Sometimes, episodes are even posted before the show airs in your region.
  - rayiner 14y ago
    But how are they doing the rips? Are they getting the original encoded stream, doing analog capture and reencoding, or what? If DRM forces them to do a less than perfect copy of the stream, that's a big win for the content producer.
    - tmzt 14y ago
      Maybe through DVI? If you can watch something on a standard computer monitor you can also capture it in high-resolution RGB through the DVI port.
      - rayiner 14y ago
        Right, but then you decode -> re-encode which decreases quality. At the aggressive bit-rates used for HD content online, that can be substantial. So as long as DRM forces re-encoding, content producers can say: "buy it for the best quality" and that's a win for them.
    - shitlord 14y ago
      Sorry for the late response; I don't usually check threads. According to someone I asked on IRC, House of Cards apparently airs somewhere offshore (I think it was Germany), but that is where the non-webrip episodes are coming from. It also explains why there are only six different non-webrip episodes released. BTW, the webrips are the ones that are coming from DVI or from captured + decrypted video streams.
- gibybo 14y ago
  No, they were just re-encodes to my knowledge. I have a Netflix account and I checked out one of the pirated ones just to compare. I couldn't tell a difference so they did a good job, but I'm sure the difference was there. I'd imagine the Netflix DRM will get broken sooner or later, especially as they continue to release Netflix-only content, but the screen caps have been so good that the pressure to do so hasn't been very high I don't think.

Probably about as quickly as the Netflix-only House of Cards ended up on The Pirate Bay: about 2 hours after its release.

by gibybo 14y ago

Probably about as quickly as the Netflix-only House of Cards ended up on The Pirate Bay: about 2 hours after its release.

rayiner 14y ago

At equal quality?

shitlord 14y ago
I don't know what the original quality is, but for TV, there are usually 2 or 3 release formats (excluding webrips): standard quality (about half the height/width of 720p), 720p, and 1080p. The standard quality and 720p are usually posted a few minutes after the show airs, and the 1080p usually comes a long time later. Sometimes, episodes are even posted before the show airs in your region.
- rayiner 14y ago
  But how are they doing the rips? Are they getting the original encoded stream, doing analog capture and reencoding, or what? If DRM forces them to do a less than perfect copy of the stream, that's a big win for the content producer.
  - tmzt 14y ago
    Maybe through DVI? If you can watch something on a standard computer monitor you can also capture it in high-resolution RGB through the DVI port.
    - rayiner 14y ago
      Right, but then you decode -> re-encode which decreases quality. At the aggressive bit-rates used for HD content online, that can be substantial. So as long as DRM forces re-encoding, content producers can say: "buy it for the best quality" and that's a win for them.
  - shitlord 14y ago
    Sorry for the late response; I don't usually check threads. According to someone I asked on IRC, House of Cards apparently airs somewhere offshore (I think it was Germany), but that is where the non-webrip episodes are coming from. It also explains why there are only six different non-webrip episodes released. BTW, the webrips are the ones that are coming from DVI or from captured + decrypted video streams.
gibybo 14y ago
No, they were just re-encodes to my knowledge. I have a Netflix account and I checked out one of the pirated ones just to compare. I couldn't tell a difference so they did a good job, but I'm sure the difference was there. I'd imagine the Netflix DRM will get broken sooner or later, especially as they continue to release Netflix-only content, but the screen caps have been so good that the pressure to do so hasn't been very high I don't think.