Subj : Re: Hola
To   : Nightfox
From : fusion
Date : Thu Apr 27 2023 18:42:24

On 27 Apr 2023, Nightfox said the following...
 
 Ni> Also, there are some countries I've heard about that actually do have a
 Ni> big bootleg market (such as China) where it's common for people to buy
 Ni> and sell copied bootleg discs for movies, music, and computer software.

some of these are actually really cool. especially a little further back when VCDs were more common. bizarre custom artwork, random actors on the packaging that aren't in the movie at all, mistranslated or simply false titles, etc. i think chinese dvd players still support all sorts of random video types because of the different bootleg methods.

 Ni> as a lot of audio is at least 5.1 channel.  I've also heard of torrents
 Ni> that are ripped straight from the disc and not compressed so that you'd
 Ni> get the full audio and video quality (if you can find those).

these were definitely available back in the day. just not as popular as the standard 700mb fit-on-a-cd-r size release because everyone had like 5-10gb hard drives lol.

i definitely prefer keeping high bitrate 720p stuff.. i really like japanese "jdrama" shows and usually look for the ~1gb/30min ones.. above that and i'm sitting on an extra 30GB+ of 4K quality i will enjoy once every five years maybe.

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