It use to be the case that downloads were heavily compressed for speed and bandwidth issues. Therefore dvds would have better picture quality. Is that still the case? If i were to buy downloads via adultdvdempire would they match the equivalent dvd for picture quality? Also, is file size still a good indicator of quality? If a dvd is holding, say, 6gb of video...would a download of the same film have to match that to be identical in picture quality? Or are there other factors?
I'm amazed at the quality of streaming video vs. what it used to be just a few years ago. I believe a lot of it is smarter compression. Stuff is still compressed, but pixelization and banding are a lot better controlled nonetheless. A lot of DVD content can and is compressed itself. Just because the disc can hold 4.7GB doesn't mean it's full. I know you'll hate this advice, but I suggest you try a download and see for yourself whether it's up to your standards. Ultimately, you're the only person who can decide whether the quality is acceptable or not.
It depends , there are HD flicks at 1080* of 2.4 GB in .mp4 or even .wmv lastin some 35 minutes a DVD standard is 2.0 GB per hour in .mpeg2 at 64 hex 480 resolution, any hi level site with HD videos have superior material than a regular DVD even at 720*
Thanks guys. It's not so much the new stuff coming out on HD, it's whether a download of an old film (circa 2000) would match the same title sold on a dvd disc? The other question i had in mind would be the retailers themselves. Would a download from one retailer be identical to the same film downloaded from another retailer? Do some retailers control the compression depending on their bandwidth (smaller files, less hosting/server fees)?
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Posted - May 1 2013 : 8:57PM
An older film can't be retroactively made Hi Def. The only way to know if a download of an old film is DVD quality is to find out how the file was encoded. (If you open a video file in [ invalid url ] and select "Codec Information" from the Tools menu, it will show you this information.) If you can't get the vendor itself -- or perhaps other of the vendor's customers on a web forum -- to give you these details before you download the file, then you're just going to have to try one and see for yourself.
I don't know this for a fact. This is speculation on my part. I would bet that it will vary from vendor to vendor largely on how much bandwidth they're willing to allocate to streaming or downloads. Cutting down on the quality would save money. Some companies are going to squeeze every penny til it screams. Some will hope that quality will make people come back and buy more.
Again it depends , if you have the master you can improve the quality of the new output , but it is extremely costly (do you have any new remastered movie on DVD? Such as Star Wars or Blade Runner Final Cut? You can see the quality as opposed to an old DVD or even a VHS if you still have one) I don't think it would be profitable for porn though. For the second yes , some retailers compress their movies to either be friendly with low speed customers , to save room on their servers and their daily bandwidth usage which is also a cost. So everything depends on the site , also some sites have a monthly download limit , if you reach it you must wait next month to download again. If they have HD movies those will consume a lot of bandwidth and you will get little whereas some others might have lesser quality but more to download. the ideal would be high quality and no limit.
What sort of sites are you talking about? Most of the "pay-as-you-go" sites I've seen, you pay per minute of viewing time. Or you buy/rent scenes/movies for a set price for a set rental period (1day streaming or 1week streaming or 1month streaming or forever streaming or download-to-own or whatever). But the bandwidth or data consumption is not a factor. If they offer different bandwidth, it is done as a way to accommodate the consumer, so that a customer with a moderate-speed internet connection can still have a possibility to enjoy the online videos.
It wasn't me, but a friend of mine discovered to have a 15 GB month limit when he reached it he paid his fee and was free to see whatever he wanted in streaming, or so he thought but after a week he discovered was already done for the month couple years ago , a fetish site focused on women wearing lingerie
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Posted - Jul 7 2013 : 10:07PM
^ Sure, but you can get a 2TB external hard drive for a hundred bucks or less. Why would you want to spend your time laboriously burning tiny little increments of that onto individual DVDs, which you would then have to commit a shelf or a drawer to to store, and also create some kind of index to have any hope of being able to find anything?
You have a point - another thing, if you go with download as opposed to DVD, there's no postage fees. I don't live in the States, so I'd save tons on postage. Maybe d/l is the way forwards for this sort of thing. :)
For those of us who had a lot of VHS tapes, DVDs don't take up much room at all... Some of it has to do with viewing habits. I don't enjoy watching videos on my computer. I much prefer watching on a television in other parts of the house. Since I haven't gone to the expense and trouble to hooking everything to everything, it's far simpler just to pop a DVD into the player at the tv of my choice.
When it comes to downloading entire DVDs from VOD, I'd have to agree with that. It's when it comes to little bits and pieces here and there - burning them to a DVD would be a massive pain in the arse. And yeah, I remember when we were stuck with VHS tapes. Nightmare! DVDs are a hundred times better in comparison and remember - you don't have to keep them in their cases; you could buy a big DVD wallet and keep them in there. That's also a lot more discreet as well. ;) Edit: About downloading VOD, what's the quality usually like? On the AdultDVDTalk VOD site, when using my free minutes, the clips I downloaded were not DVD picture quality; they weren't even widescreen! If you download an actual 'DVD' title, will it be widescreen and DVD picture quality?
Posted - Apr 30 2013 : 8:32AM
