Goodbye SlySoft and AnyDVD

[poofyhairguy]

On the point of pirates needing/being helped by AnyDVD, I want to point out an article I came across yesterday that claims that The Martian UHD disk was put online:

http://www.myce.com/news/the-martian-is-the-first-ultra-hd-blu-ray-rip-ever-released-78799/

This is despite the fact that neither AnyDVD nor any other disc ripping product sold can do that right now (and drives that read them are hard to get too). That article also claims that Netflix and Amazon 4K offerings have been put on the internet by the same pirate group, which means basically streaming piracy knows no limits.

Given this I think the concept that products like AnyDVD are used mostly for piracy is false. Pirates have other sources, and people who pay for disks are more likely to pay for software.

 

[JSt0rm]

the flip to building a collection of 4k material is most people arent gonna want to have 100gb a pop movies on drives. But maybe some guys like red squirrel wont care as they are invested in drive space to hold that much material. I hope the normal human would rather stream that 100gb then download it and hold it.

Also read the comments on the martian thing it appears they aimed a camera at the screen and recorded a 4k of a 4k. So yeah its shit.

 

[ControlD]

the flip to building a collection of 4k material is most people arent gonna want to have 100gb a pop movies on drives.

That is a valid point. To be honest, I don't particularly want to store 25GB for a BluRay rip as it is. I imagine when 4K movies start becoming available I would prefer them the same way I prefer HD movies now: on an optical disk.

When I rip my BR disks for home use I re-encode them for streaming purposes. I don't store 1:1 rips any longer than it takes to make a smaller version.

 

[Homerboy]

Meh, buy the time 4k movies are "the norm", 100GB won't be all that much space (it isn't now)

On a relatively cheap 4TB HDD, I could store 35+ 4K movies.
To stream a legit 4K quality movie in the smae quality I'd get off a disk/1:1 HDD copy, I'm going to need some serious bandwidth upgrading.

 

[notposting]

the flip to building a collection of 4k material is most people arent gonna want to have 100gb a pop movies on drives. But maybe some guys like red squirrel wont care as they are invested in drive space to hold that much material. I hope the normal human would rather stream that 100gb then download it and hold it.

Also read the comments on the martian thing it appears they aimed a camera at the screen and recorded a 4k of a 4k. So yeah its shit.

WTF?

....buffering....

Day 3 of the month:
"Dad, why is the internet shut off?"
"Sorry son, we watched a couple of movies in that super high def thing over the weekend, remember? We went over our usage cap already. Maybe you can just do all your schoolwork from the public library?"

 

[Homerboy]

WTF?

....buffering....

Day 3 of the month:
"Dad, why is the internet shut off?"
"Sorry son, we watched a couple of movies in that super high def thing over the weekend, remember? We went over our usage cap already. Maybe you can just do all your schoolwork from the public library?"

Well, technically speaking he is right -- I would in fact RATHER stream it, but the reality is that isn't possible in today's day in age. I mean I'd RATHER be married to Charlize Theron, but that's not going to happen either


(for the record, my wife would rather be married to Charlize Theron as well)

 

[JSt0rm]

time marches on guys. I have 200mb down and I could have up to 300mb down if I wanted. No data caps. So sorry that you live in a monopoly.

 

[Homerboy]

time marches on guys. I have 200mb down and I could have up to 300mb down if I wanted. No data caps. So sorry that you live in a monopoly.

You realize you are the VAST minority, correct?

As I said, I agree with you -- most would prefer to download/stream that 100GB but it's not going to happen any time soon.

Not to mention if everyone had your l33t internet speeds, you think the content providers (Netflix etc) are going to be able to handle that many concurrent and sustained 4k streams? The the whole backbone would need some serious upgrading to make that jump common place.

 

[Red Squirrel]

time marches on guys. I have 200mb down and I could have up to 300mb down if I wanted. No data caps. So sorry that you live in a monopoly.

LOL as if people actually have a choice what kind of service their ISP provides.

I'm personally lucky enough to have 50/30 with no cap, but most people arn't.

 

[JSt0rm]

I have a choice. But I live in a 7 million human city with multiple services.

 

[JSt0rm]

LOL as if people actually have a choice what kind of service their ISP provides.

I'm personally lucky enough to have 50/30 with no cap, but most people arn't.

You need that upload don't you :sneaky:

 

[pcslookout]

Like Homerboy said this thread delivers and I didn't even expect it to.

 

[pcslookout]

Anyway looks like soon your license AnyDVD will no longer work as they move onto a subscription model!

 

[Ichinisan]

You need that upload don't you :sneaky:

He's an unabashed pirate.