The Haunted Palace Its the

The Haunted Palace

Its the same way that many people literally cant tell the difference between FLAC and MP That while audiophiles will wail and howl about how inferior MP3s are to their preferred format, many just cant tell the difference between an HD and upscaled SD format. Thats the way it is, and no need to attack or question anothers opinion on this subject. It also illustrates how dangerous the studios tactic is if theyre trying to depend on merely offering a higher def image to try and make more money from the masses. I knew this was coming when they talked about live updates and downloaded content, yada The Haunted Palace its total BS. You want to protest? Dont buy their crap, any of it. Lets see how much they love DRM when people begin refusing to put up with this kind of stuff. The only real way to force their hand is for people to insist on only buying non-DRMed, non-region controlled products. Why would that work? If their complaints about piracy and business models are not fact-based, why would shifting demand from DRM media to non-DRM work any better than shifting from DRM to nothing? If the DRM-encrusted blockbusters are not making as much money as the MPAA think they should, theyll go to Congress or just bypass Congress entirely for new laws regardless of what else is happening in the market, whether that is nobody watching movies anymore, everyone downloading illegally, or buying non-DRM movies. Now we have to buy the commercials/previews we are forced to watch? How about you put the commercials/previews in a separate section of the disc? I think more people would watch them if they didnt feel like they were think I have seen some DVDs do this and I actually selected the previews that I wanted to watch and when the movie came out I went and bought the DVD or saw it at the movies. If you force me to watch commercials/previews, Ill go to the bathroom and make popcorn while the menu comes up and I wont watch any of them. If their complaints about piracy and business models are not fact-based, why would shifting demand from DRM media to non-DRM work any better than shifting from DRM to nothing? If people were to boycott everything and the sales of everything drops as a result, theres no particular message that will be heard. The corporations will stick to their scapegoat of piracy. If, on the other hand, sales stay within expected levels, only with the sales shifted from DRMed/region-controlled crap to more consumer-friendly items, this sends out a message thats more difficult to ignore. If the DRM-encrusted blockbusters are not making as much money as the MPAA think they should, theyll go to Congress or just bypass Congress entirely for new laws regardless of what else is happening in the market, whether that is nobody watching movies anymore, everyone downloading illegally, or buying non-DRM movies. Agreed, but the case is that much more difficult to prove if it ever gets there. The question of why the large numbers of non-DRMed media had increased while the DRMed sales had plummeted would have to be answered in court. There would also be more chance that some sense would be seen by the studios before trying this as with the record companies when they abandoned DRM a few successful trials of non-DRMed media would confirm the message thats being sent. I admit thats optimistic, but its more realistic The Haunted Palace hoping that the studios would do the right thing if a blanket boycott were successful. Sweet Jeebus, your post is so full of stupid I dont know where to begin. DVD is not uncompressed. DVD uses MPEG-2, which is a form of lossy compression. Given, its perceptual and high-enough bitrate that it looks good and can even be comrpessed further with good results, but its not uncompressed or even losslessly compressed video. DRM does not bloat the file size by 300%. In fact, it doesnt affect the file size in any significant way whatsoever. As far as those chunks go, the main reason you see VOB files smaller than 2 GiB is because at the time the DVD format was specified, many operating systems and utilities had problems dealing with files larger than that. Im not sure how BR disks are laid out, but so called large file support is the norm now, so theres no reason to have a single stream in more than 1 file. Whats more, BR discs are normally 25 or 50 GiB for SL vs. DL discs. Thats a lot more than 2-3 2 GiB chunks. By the time that happens youll be an old people too. Then someone like you will be waiting for you to go bye bye. What a waste. Just enjoy your own life and live and let live.