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| HeinousActsZX #793800 7 months ago |
Perhaps we can calm down about ponyarchives now? |
| Anonymous #793809 7 months ago |
Nope |
| Wheezie_Moonflower #793828 7 months ago |
Works in only one country. |
| Doctor_Whooves #793831 7 months ago |
Do they really think a paltry $10 makes an appreciable difference?
I couldn't care less about the price; especially not such a measly amount as $10, one way or the other. Apple hasn't even given people in my country the option to buy it, at any price. So no discount in the world is going to get them any sales here. |
| HeinousActsZX #793834 7 months ago |
I know, but it should at least cool the fires a bit. |
| HeinousActsZX #793840 7 months ago |
That was @ wheezie.
I can't offer a counter-point, Doctor. I'm just trying to deliver a message. |
| Doctor_Whooves #793878 7 months ago |
I doubt this will calm down many of the people pissed off about Ponyarchive's shutdown. While it was illegal as hell, their raw iTunes rips offered one significant advantage over the ones you buy directly from Apple: the option to colour correct those episodes that Apple encoded poorly. You can pay for Season 1, yes, but unless you have the software or know-how to remove its DRM yourself, you're stuck watching the desaturated colours, and forced to use iTunes or Quicktime as player software (and both suck, IMO). |
| Steel_Thunder #794001 7 months ago |
hasbro can go shove a megatron transformer toy up their asses for bringing ponyarchive down. I cant watch ponies on TV here, and I cant buy it since I dont live in USA. |
| Doctor_Whooves #794013 7 months ago |
^ Case in point. :P
You can always try getting your hands on an American iTunes Store gift card, and then creating a US iTunes Store account to use it on. That bypasses the requirement of needing a credit card with a US billing address to buy content from the American store. I'm considering doing that myself, for the remainder of season 2, if no convenient source of the raw itunes rips pops up. I have that Requiem thing which is supposed to be able to remove the DRM the way Ponyarchive was doing, so I can make my own MKVs for the remainder of the season. |
| BattleGT #794017 7 months ago |
^ Youtube and alternate download sources use them. |
| ZePassionateOne #794054 7 months ago |
Which comes to mind...when the hell are they going to sell the Complete First Season in DVD? W're almost at the half of season two and still nothing. Now THAT would actually help Hasbro. |
| Doctor_Whooves #794058 7 months ago |
Downloading off Youtube is downloading overly-transcoded video, IMO. |
| BattleGT #794091 7 months ago |
I wasn't didn't say Directly form youtube though |
| thatguy #794208 7 months ago |
>paying $40 for video with badly washed out colors and missing content from the final cut |
| Doctor_Whooves #795134 7 months ago |
^ Yes indeed; however each relatively high-resolution source has both advantages and disadvantages.
1080p cable: Advantages: Full 1080p. Disadvantages: MPEG-2 (god it's such a lame codec) encoded, hubble and ei watermarks, occasional "pop-up" ad, laden with irritating compression artifacts partially as a result of MPEG-2 being inferior and partially from the transcoding it's been subjected to. 720p itunes: Advantages: Uses superior H.264 codec, no major compression artifacts, no watermarks. Disadvantages: Not full HD, desaturated colours for S1, S2E1 & S2E2, a few minor things missing from a small handful of scenes. All in all, I feel the iTunes versions have a better balance of advantages to counter the disadvantages. And of course, with the use of ffdshow presets the colour issues can be reduced to the point where most viewers won't even notice the difference. The major problem with iTunes is that 720p just isn't that high a resolution. But for casual watching, it's perfectly fine. |