2MuchMark |
11-13-2010 09:09 PM |
Let me put it this way..
If you like movies and like to be easily swept away by a movie with good story, acting, effects, sound, music etc, then you owe it to yourself to see a movie in a theatre. For $15 you're treated to a wild story presented on a 7 story iMax screen in a bazillion watts of great sound. If the movie is in DLP or Digital IMax, even better because you're watching the movie in a fully digital, completely non-compressed format and is a real treat for the eyes and ears.
If you're the stay-at-home person thats cool too. I can just into a movie at home almost as much as I can at a threatre. A licensed Blu-Ray movie is butter to your High-Def TV and sound system. You're lost in the story, enjoying the flick and happy all for $5.00. Again, happy artists means more future content.
Downloaders, take note:
Don't think for a second that you're seeing 1/100th of a movie that was recorded by some asshole with a camcorder as he sat in a threatre. The image and sound quality is nothing. Buying a bootleg DVD supports criminals, not the film makers. Buying this shit only means you get more shit in the future.
Getting ripped movies online is just as bad because the thieves compress an already compressed movie down to nothing in order to get it out to you. The bandwidth required by blu-ray to produce 1024p lines at 24 Bits per pixel and at 60 frames per second with 5.1 Channels of discreet surround sound is about 3,000 megabits per second. DVD's in the old 480i format needed 5 to 8 mbps. You will never get anything even close to this bitrate watching a downloaded ripped movie regardless of what stupid compression format they used. (I'm not talking about download speed, I'm talking about video bitrates). Compressed video and audio looks and sounds like shit compared to native, uncompressed goodness. The amount of data required to present the image and sound is important. The more data you have, the better the image quality and the richer the sound.
If you like movies, you are doing a serious disservice to yourself watching ripped movies. You aren't seeing or hearing shit.
Mark.
ps: Buy an electric car.
:)
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