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Posted at 23/09/2008, 00:42
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i'll go with other posters who've confirmed the original is fine. it's strange there are also so many unnecessary repacks, have you noticed? |
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Posted at 23/09/2008, 00:54
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hooray that the other one isn't too bad, because i'm nearly 70% into it and nearing the cap of my data limit for the month. i'd really rather not have to ditch ~250mb over something minor. |
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Posted at 23/09/2008, 01:45
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dont expect capper to watch each show before and after encoding. they may actually hate the show or have something else to do. the increased ammount of repacks is due to some silly quality standards, like 1seconds of commercial at end, 5seconds out of sync etc. |
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Posted at 23/09/2008, 01:45
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god, i hate data caps. i'd rather have half the download speed and no cap than 12mb per second but have a data cap. but that's just me. as for the smaller files vs. the larger hd files, i find little visual difference on my 47 inch plasma screen between watching an hd program off the air and watching the 350mb file, provided it was converted from the hd feed and encoded correctly. the only way i notice a difference is if i run the signals through an analyzer (and there is a helluva difference on that level). since so many series are coming out on dvd during their hiatus or, now that everyone has decided to join the "battlestar galactica" school of pain in the a*s*s scheduling, the first half of the season in early fall and the second half in late spring, i only need to keep the off-network episodes until those come out on bluray, so 350mb is fine with me. the only way i'd want to make certain i had 720p or 1080i copies would be if you had a series like, for example, "wkrp in cincinnati". a lot of the rock music had to be changed just for the syndication run, let alone the home video / dvd release. i'd love to have nice archive copies of the network version of those episodes. since most series are pre-planning their worldwide exploitation in the initial pitch meetings, the problem with music doesn't come up much any more but it *does* come up as do rights issues with certain celebrity images or something running on a television in the background. as gilda radner used to say every week on snl, "it's always one damn thing after another". kjb |
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Posted at 23/09/2008, 02:03
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wow. you don't deserve to own a 47" plasma. |
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Posted at 23/09/2008, 03:29
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i hate that, this listing must have shown up very shortly after i started downloading the first one, by the time i came back to the pc and noticed, it was done downloading... original better not be that bad, with so many of my favorite shows now on, i just don't have the bandwidth to spare this month... |
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Posted at 23/09/2008, 08:16
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ok, i'm totally confused, just finished watching the first rip, did not notice a single thing wrong with it, heroes had more sync issues and no proper or repack yet, so i have no idea what was wrong with the first rip. |
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Posted at 23/09/2008, 08:58
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when i checked both versions were already out, so of course i chose the repack over the first version - however the repack seems to be shared very badly, it barely downloads. since there was so little wrong with the first, few people seem to bother with the repack. it makes me considering trashing the repack and downloading the first release instead, so i don't have to wait for several hours more until it's done... |
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Posted at 23/09/2008, 11:06
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"as for the smaller files vs. the larger hd files, i find little visual difference on my 47 inch plasma screen" i've said it before, and i'm gonna say it again, in absolute seriousness: if you can't tell the visual difference between the 350mb "less than sd" rips and the 1100mb 720p rips then you really need to get your eyes checked, period! the 720p versions have literally *four times* the number of pixels in them. there is so much more detail there is just no comparison. hd wins hands down! if you can't tell the difference between them, i'm guessing you also can't read the title of a movie or show on the side (yes, the *side*, not the front) of a dvd box placed next to your stated 47" plasma, when you are sitting in your normal viewing position. (and your plasma *is* hd, isn't it? if not then it's no wonder you can't tell the difference - in that case try them on your pc running in 1280x960 or better to see the difference.) my advice, get your eyes checked - you might be surprised at just how much you've been missing! |
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Posted at 23/09/2008, 11:47
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now, i feel sorry for all those who have a capped connection, but not for this idiot. i mean how moronic do you have to be to start downloading the minute something shows up here and then complain about your bandwidth cap? just wait a day (or two). how difficult is that to understand? |
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Posted at 23/09/2008, 12:17
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part of the flashback seemed to be slightly out of sync. i assumed it was simply the cutting of some frames for broadcast. the rest of the file was fine. i didn't notice anything and i too normally would. of course, i've pretty much learned to ignore it. |
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Posted at 23/09/2008, 19:19
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jesus gaspah, even in canada, $150aud is enough for a 1000gb hard drive, half of that will get you a new 500 even |
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Posted at 23/09/2008, 22:27
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that is like a kid reaching his birthday, then being told he can't open his presents for two days... people always say wait, but how many times has something been shyte, and a proper has never shown up?, multiple times on many shows you have had threads full of people saying how bad the rip is, so you wait 2-3 days, and there is no proper. other times you troll the threads looking for bad quality comments, find nothing in like 5+ pages so start downloading, only to have a proper show up after your done. there is much not to like about the scene... |
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Posted at 23/09/2008, 23:32
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vi76, it's not difficult to understand at all. however, my data limit resets on the first of october, and i didn't particularly want to wait a week to commence downloading the next episode. i average about 10k/s on my cable connection, unfortunately, so even when i start downloading a tv show immediately i usually don't get to watch it until about a day or two later anyway. if i waited to see if a "correct" version showed up, i'd be waiting about four or five days to watch it. i like the shows i like to watch, obviously. i'd like to watch them sooner, rather than later, and therefore i prioritise what i download so that i can do just that. if i spend x megabytes downloading something, and then have to spend x megabytes downloading it all over again because it wasn't encoded right, i now have 2x megabytes fewer to use downloading other shows. that's annoying, especially when i'm running out of my allowance. how hard is that to understand? let me put it simply for you, so you can keep up: i didn't want to wait a week, or even a day or two, but i also didn't want to download an episode only to find that it was badly out of sync and that i'd need to download it all over again. again, how hard is that to understand? and yes, i understand that what you're suggesting is that i wait a day or two to see if a proper or repack shows up, to ensure that i get a problem-free episode. again, i'm merely eager to see the next episode of something, and thus am starting a download as soon as i can manage it. i usually wait around an hour after release anyway, to see if anyone's said that it's rubbish. as was mentioned above (by thebishop74), sometimes you can wait several days and not see any repacks until you go to download the episode that's been sitting there forever, or sometimes you just end up getting what's been sitting there for days and it's still rubbish, with no repack. sit there and call me a moron and an idiot if you like, but it was a reasonable comment, one of relief that the first release wasn't unwatchable (since i'd already downloaded most of it), and not flaming anyone (something you seem incapable of doing). besides, i hardly either want or need you to feel sorry for me. |
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Posted at 24/09/2008, 04:08
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is a repack just a better version of the original ( no ads. no minor problem ) and a proper is one where they have fixed a serious error( missing show time. out of sync audio ) there seem to be too many re-releases latley can i get the difference between a proper and a repack please admin : then consult the help thread where all is explained |
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