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bows1
May 16, 2004

Chill, whale, chill

How are u posted:

Yeah they put Game of Thrones episodes up on HBOGO the exact moment the episode airs on the channel and Game of Thrones is getting millions and millions of viewers. There's zero justification for not being able to do the same thing with a far less popular show an hour after Game of Thrones finishes airing. It's quite goofy, shame on you HBO.

They finish editing the show right before it airs, and the amount of encoding for all the different platforms that HBO GO runs on takes forever, and a 1080p HD version of a 30 minute show is a HUGE File. Not considering all the other file types.

It does take a long time to upload those files, hours for each

seaborgium posted:

Especially considering they're posting segments for tonights episodes on youtube already.

Do you know the difference between youtube compression and Pure HD, as well as 5 min videos vs 30? Also, 1 version for youtube Vs at least 10 for HBO Go.

You guys are being ridiculous about this. Its obviously not a conscious choice.

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bows1
May 16, 2004

Chill, whale, chill

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

You are embarrassing yourself. Just as a rule of thumb, rank the reports of people who actually do the thing higher than how you imagine the thing probably works.

Also torrenters are happy to work in the middle of the night for free, but employees of media companies require overtime pay for that kind of thing.

Not only that but you have to watch each export completely before uploading to check for any errors in compression and rendering. So thats a 30 min show multiplied by however many compressions they have to use for HBO Go(at least 10). As a professional organization you can't upload a file that corrupts or data moshes in the middle, but of course as a pirate you don't give two shits. There is a lot of stuff you are missing in this.

edit - also, sorry for the derail, that will be my last post on the matter. I love the show and will continue to watch it every week.

bows1
May 16, 2004

Chill, whale, chill

Fateo McMurray posted:

Paddywagon is bad?

Irish slang term?

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