• inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    It really was nice while streaming lasted. Shame these companies continually allow greed to drive me back into the arms of piracy.

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      4 hours ago

      Never stopped pirating, feeling vindicated rn 💪🏴‍☠️

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      35 minutes ago

      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ piracy is better anyway, I want full bitrate digital copies not compressed garbage.

      Such a shame high bitrate full quality movies/TV shows will semi fade away as these asshole companies only stream their movies at 7 gigs an hour and never release physical media.

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        2 hours ago

        40GB Pirates of the Caribbean just hits differently. The black pearl coming out of an actual mist and not layers of gray that slowly recede because of compression is very awesome. FullHD with proper bitrate is enough for my 2m projector image, too.

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          33 minutes ago

          100% It boggles my mind that very apparent compression artifacts don’t bother the average consumer.

          I guess if you don’t know what it is, you can’t realize it is a flaw.

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      6 hours ago

      I remember when an older netflix ceo talked about never having ads on the platform, there was some high and mighty principle about it… But then money!