Do you lose on quality if you play a ripped blu-ray film on USB through Smart TV?
I don't buy anything from the major distributors for anime in north america just based on principle. Funimation, Aniplex, Right Stuf, Sunrise media. A typical 15 episode OVA will cost, in Japan, the same as any other show here in North America, maybe $30-40. In North America, you can expect the same show to retail for over $200.
Because there is this, I don't know, ingrained dislike of letting foreigners access to their media and artistic library, the Japanese see fit to charge exorbitant licensing fees to the aforementioned companies, and the prices suffer as a result. I honestly think it's just out of spite, its a never ending toxic snowball effect. The fans suffer the most, and I have opted to vote with my wallet and I refuse to support this distasteful practice.
It's doubly bad taste, because Funimation routinely fumbles their digital transfer process. Not only do the studios that own the rights for the anime NOT let the distributors access to the original digital transfers, they make them do their own transfers themselves. All in all, it's honestly just depressing. I had to pay $90 plus tax for each disc disc of Sunrise Media's release of the Gundam franchise. I dropped over $750 after tax for just 3 series, about 80 episodes total, so technically under $10 an episode, but compared to the JP cost, it was about 6 or 7x the price. Bad business, just bad business practices. I don't see how anyone can be ok with this. I guess the fans for the show are more passionite than me. I think the saddest part is I would totally be down to buying a lot more anime if it were priced appropriately.
Sorry for the bit of a rant, nothing brings my blood to a boil more then shady, stupid, and bad licensing deals where I can't get my hands on something easily. I could and should also talk about eone entertainment, but that's a topic for another day.
Get 'em while you can? Just how much longer will blurays even be available is another way of looking at it. Oppo left the building for a reason. Some new movies aren't even getting a bluray version released, just dvd. I prefer having a disc to play, altho have done the mkv thing but its somewhat a pain and doesn't always play nice but I really haven't invested in that as I still need the disc to rip from (and of course wouldn't consider ripping from a rental ).
If the Apple digital download is like the digital copy download you often get with a bluray, it's not the same as having a bluray. Just look at the file size differences.....
Hehehehe in Denmark renting cost half the price of the actual disk in my local renting store.... but i like the idea Luckliy for me "A BUDY OF MY" (Joe Rogan reference) knows internet well enough to get a lot of content in high quality through there.
Could the file size difference be caused by them having only english audio track and subtitles?
I have a Netflix subscription for 3 discs out at a time for $20/month. Usually works out to around a dozen films a month....
When I looked at the "digital copy" file size it wasn't near the size of even the main bluray movie's file afaict. Been a while but I think it was 4-7 gigs for a digital file and think that basic movie in a bluray is more like 5 times that....but probably limiting the languages/soundtrack and some compression etc....
Ouch that compression is just sad, are there other website where you can purchase a digital blu-ray copy that is not compressed. Im just curious now ^_^
I had Oppo 95 and 105 players neither of which played all discs glitch free, and some stopped part way though which is very frustrating.I’d have bought an Oppo 205 but they command silly prices on the second hand market due to the “hype” factor built up around them.
I had Oppo 95 and 105 players neither of which played all discs glitch free, and some stopped part way though which is very frustrating.
I got a Sony 4k player chucked in with a Sony projector which is more reliable playing discs than either Oppo were, but doesn't contain the multiple DACs for surround analogue outputs.
I may have neen unlucky but Oppo was the least reliable disc player I ever owned.
I my self own a blu-ray player (LG UBK80) connected to a Philips PUS 8303 and a Yamaha RX-V781 which is connected to the TV. In my setup i am all about making everything as simple as possible so i was wondering if i could get rid of my blu-ray player and play everything from my TV via USB port. No servers, streaming just plug and play regardless of the internet connection.
In the past days i experimented a bit with a Anime movie called Redline and what caught my attention was the lag in animations in few scenes when playing the movie from my TV USB 3.0. There is a scene where a character walks and part of his face is in front of the character. But when i play the same movie through the USB on my blu-ray player this dosnt happened. On my tv i used the in build media player and the MX player. Any ideas what could be the cause? My USB is a 128 GB Patriot supersonic rage 2
The pictures in the post are to show my setup and my collection of blu-rays to give a picture of how little it is. And yeah the reason there is no subwoofer on the pic is because i cant afford one yet, life happened and the purchase need to be put on hold for now
Where can you buy a digital bluray copy? Haven't seen that. Torrenting maybe....
Some "deluxe" disk sets include a coupon for an officially-sanctioned downloadable version of the movie which may not be 1080P or offer anything but a 2-channel soundtrack, it's simply intended as a bonus that can be viewed on mobile devices and PCs, and you can bet that it incorporates DRM and a means of identifying you.
AFAIK, IANAL, etc. USA's DMCA made circumvention of copy-protection a federal felony; regardless of ownership, reason (e.g., fair-use backup), etc. IOW, the only legal method of unlocking encryption is for normal playback. Now, if you open a BD normally but it remains unlocked after you stop your player software...It's legal where I live. It should also be legal in USA. I don't know why else you would be ripping the disc if you didn't own it.