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bull3964 posted:They do similar things to screeners, doesn't stop them from being leaked, but they can usually track the source. Nah. Also an audio watermark would be relatively pointless, high quality video is the hard thing to get for movies still in the theater.
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VagueRant posted:The trailer for The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt season 2 has me pining for a feelgood show. I hoped Kimmy Schmidt would be it, but they were more interested in portraying a zany 30 Rock comic reality where the promise of a super optimistic, cheery, innocent and genuine protagonist can be squished into more of a Rachel-from-Friends role. That's not a diss on the writers, they're just making a different show than what I wanted out of their premise. just watch Psych ffs
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bull3964 posted:They do similar things to screeners, doesn't stop them from being leaked, but they can usually track the source. They've actually gotten a lot better about screeners in the year since the Sony hack, Force Awakens still has nothing but cams out for it. Of course the flipside is that the indie movies that actually need the support are the ones with HD rips day one due to simultaneous VOD releases.
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One advantage this would have over most screeners is that any watermark would be to a specific individual, instead of a website or something.
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ABC pulled Of Kings and Prophets from their schedule after two whole episodes.
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muscles like this? posted:ABC pulled Of Kings and Prophets from their schedule after two whole episodes. I wonder how much of a huge cost hit they're taking with this.
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muscles like this? posted:ABC pulled Of Kings and Prophets from their schedule after two whole episodes. drat, was there backlash or were the ratings just that bad?
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zoux posted:drat, was there backlash or were the ratings just that bad? It had worse ratings than the previous show they pulled after a couple of episodes, Wicked City.
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.8 down to a .5.
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muscles like this? posted:It had worse ratings than the previous show they pulled after a couple of episodes, Wicked City. NBC is just so Gil.
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zoux posted:Excuse me it is 100% pirate proof. Is that like the proof of the rum I'll be drinking while bellowing sea shanties as I watch a ripped copy bring back old gbs posted:So theatre film copies have weird flash frames every once in a while that would bricks cameras, or force phones into a "locked" mode you have to pay out the rear end to revert if the camera was pointing at the screen. This sounds like a great idea if you want people to never buy your products ever again. raditts fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Mar 18, 2016 |
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Mu Zeta posted:Who the gently caress is Sean Parker? I never heard of him until Social Network. He owns 2,500,000,000 dollars
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Can't wait for the fifth best show of 2015 to come back tomorrow
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Escobarbarian posted:Can't wait for the fifth best show of 2015 to come back tomorrow It beat the Leftovers. It beat the Leftovers. 
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tbf it's a good show and I hope this season has less utterly useless episodes like 1x6
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thrawn527 posted:- I get one of the best seats in the house. One con for me is the lovely sound mixing. I've never tried Blu-Ray so maybe that will fix it, but pirated poo poo and DVDs both play like rear end when it comes to volume levels. I'm constantly cranking the volume for dialog and quickly slamming the volume down when the explosions/big music score happens. I've tried upping the volume of the centre speaker (I have a 3 speaker set up) and it doesn't really fix the issue.
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muscles like this? posted:ABC pulled Of Kings and Prophets from their schedule after two whole episodes. So how was this was show's promotion generally? Because I've actually never heard of it.
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Excellent news! http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/prison-break-robert-knepper-rockmond-876671 
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xcore posted:One con for me is the lovely sound mixing. I've never tried Blu-Ray so maybe that will fix it, but pirated poo poo and DVDs both play like rear end when it comes to volume levels. I'm constantly cranking the volume for dialog and quickly slamming the volume down when the explosions/big music score happens. I've tried upping the volume of the centre speaker (I have a 3 speaker set up) and it doesn't really fix the issue. That's....kinda the point for a dynamic soundtrack. You want the really loud parts loud and the softer parts quiet. Most receivers have a setting to compress the output (usually called night mode or something like that) which will level out the sound. But, the soundtracks on disc, by and large, are spot on the way they should be.
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Rarity posted:It beat the Leftovers. Would be interesting to see a "best of the past X years" poll in addition, just to see how many of the favorites died off upon reconsideration and what good but never spectacular shows rise up because of fond memories.
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GreenNight posted:Excellent news! This is great and now I'm even more excited for the miniseries. I hope they mention T-bag's episode of Breakout Kings at some point.
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Australian actress Emily Browning was cast as Laura Moon in American Gods. According to pre-production reports they're beefing up Laura's part so she isn't just a deus ex machina to rescue Shadow when he gets in trouble.
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Let me know when William Fichtner is announced to return to Prison Break.
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Lycus posted:So how was this was show's promotion generally? Because I've actually never heard of it. I think ABC saw NBC's effort with Kings and said "Let's try that, but with zero advertising."
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It had a bunch of ads on the espn app, and it looked like they were trying to make Game of Thrones but with Bible characters. It was super generic, the tagline was, I'm dead serious, "A Hero Will Rise".
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corn in the bible posted:just watch Psych ffs You know that's right.
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muscles like this? posted:Australian actress Emily Browning was cast as Laura Moon in American Gods. According to pre-production reports they're beefing up Laura's part so she isn't just a deus ex machina to rescue Shadow when he gets in trouble. 
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Been checking out some of the feelgood recs. Fresh Off The Boat has been the one that hit that chord with me the most so far, but maybe that's just because both Randall Park and Constance Wu are so ridiculously good looking that I get distracted from the anxiety of parenting and lost in their pearly white smiles. But on a totally unrelated note, the release of Daredevil season 2 has me wondering if there are any documentaries or in-depth articles about the TV piracy industry. Hopefully this isn't too files-y to talk about...But I mean, when you think about the amount of work that goes into it? Multiple groups of people who record the episode, EDIT it to remove ads, reasonably compress it, upload it on the torrents and those weird russian youtubes within HOURS of it airing, when the TV stations don't tend to get their online streams up for a good 12 hours. And they do it for EVERY TV show from some big drama to Reality Show Episode #586? I mean, that's WORK. That's a full time job. Are they paid in donations? Surely that's not enough? Are they basically groups of hobbyists? The fact that there seems to be groups and competiton suggests some serious monetary involvement, but maybe it is just nerd pride? And what's it like for them when Netflix just throws out 12 episodes at once like they do? Do the pirate groups have to scramble and work for hours on it? It's fascinating to me, it's just this hidden little industry.
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VagueRant posted:Been checking out some of the feelgood recs. Fresh Off The Boat has been the one that hit that chord with me the most so far, but maybe that's just because both Randall Park and Constance Wu are so ridiculously good looking that I get distracted from the anxiety of parenting and lost in their pearly white smiles. I have to admit I'm actually quite curious about this too, though I don't know anything about it.
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VagueRant posted:Been checking out some of the feelgood recs. Fresh Off The Boat has been the one that hit that chord with me the most so far, but maybe that's just because both Randall Park and Constance Wu are so ridiculously good looking that I get distracted from the anxiety of parenting and lost in their pearly white smiles. And not to praise pirates too much but they do a valuable job of archiving in a way, whereas some companies will just let this die off, pirates are basically doing the job of archivists at times. Also I think there's some competitive spirit going on as to who can do it better, faster, etc. They also tend to keep each other in check over quality and everything to. It's definitely a weird scene I'd like to actually have someone dig deeper into.
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Sober posted:It's definitely a weird scene I'd like to actually have someone dig deeper into. There are a lot of current/ex-pirates who will be pretty open about this in a variety of media. Probably the most interesting discussions imo were comics scanners, especially given the direct marketplace mess transitioning into digital marketplace boom of the last few years taking their job from this fiddly pissing contest with so much room for error into a two-click job at times.
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Random thought for the day, only brought up because my grandmother and mother were hooked on the show and I got a crash course in it during its brief late 80's revival. Fifty years ago this week/weekend, the first episodes of Dark Shadows were broadcast.
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VagueRant posted:Been checking out some of the feelgood recs. Fresh Off The Boat has been the one that hit that chord with me the most so far, but maybe that's just because both Randall Park and Constance Wu are so ridiculously good looking that I get distracted from the anxiety of parenting and lost in their pearly white smiles. It seems like it would be easier to do Netflix shows, since they have no commercials or anything.
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VagueRant posted:Been checking out some of the feelgood recs. Fresh Off The Boat has been the one that hit that chord with me the most so far, but maybe that's just because both Randall Park and Constance Wu are so ridiculously good looking that I get distracted from the anxiety of parenting and lost in their pearly white smiles. Cutting ads out shouldn't take that much work I would think, nothing more than 5 minutes or so. Transcoding it will take longer (Rather than compressing it. Transcoding takes longer and will retain a high bitrate while compression is something that can be knocked out pretty quickly). But the groups that do it are essentially all part of a network where being in such groups tends to get you early access to a lot of media. As far as I know they don't really get paid for it, though I'm sure some might accept donations. It's mostly for the pride of it, and a lot of groups like to celebrate that they're the first to bring you a copy of THE AMERICANS or something for example.
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i hate every ape i see
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Toxxupation posted:i hate every ape i see Oh, no. I'm not responding to you. You'll never make a monkey out of me.
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Toxxupation posted:i hate every ape i see From chim-pan-A to chim-pan-Z
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VagueRant posted:Been checking out some of the feelgood recs. Fresh Off The Boat has been the one that hit that chord with me the most so far, but maybe that's just because both Randall Park and Constance Wu are so ridiculously good looking that I get distracted from the anxiety of parenting and lost in their pearly white smiles. If it's anything like the old music scenes, a lot of it is about trading; the people who rip TV shows share them with people who record and share movie cams. As for work, a lot of it is automated--they have computers hooked into a cable box that has a HDCP (HDMI's built in DRM) remover in between. The computer automatically grabs the signal, removes commercials, transcodes the file (usually into .MP4 or .mkv), and uploads it to their site. Sometimes they release the file into TPB/Usenet/whatever themselves, sometimes members of the site "steal" them and release them instead. Really it's about sharing leaked media and being the first to get them out. There's evidence that some people higher up at networks and movie studios are involved in piracy, sometimes directly. There's rumors that Paramount put The Little Prince on TPB and then when almost no one pirated it they took it to mean Americans didn't care about the film and dropped the domestic distribution rights (which is dumb, the people that want to see The Little Prince are the type of people that go out of their way to see arty animated films in theaters because they want to make sure the medium doesn't die). Artists routinely leak albums into sites as publicity stunts or for fun--Kanye purportedly leaked "The Life of Pablo" himself and Donald Glover/Childish Gambino leaked "Because The Internet" on 4Chan with the last minute cut off the album to troll people. And when a recent show was finishing up (I think Mad Men?) the scene released episodes were of such high quality it had to have come from either a cable company or the network themselves (I think Dish Network may have been in negotiations with AMC at the time, take that as you will). If you're at all interested in piracy, I'd recommend checking out How Music Got Free, a fascinating look at how music piracy worked in the late 90's/early 00's.
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lelandjs posted:If you're at all interested in piracy, I'd recommend checking out How Music Got Free, a fascinating look at how music piracy worked in the late 90's/early 00's. I'm interested in piracy, but I'm not really into buying books.
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