Going to the cinema - a waste of money?

heymylastnameislewis

MercilessKiller wrote:

Not a good thing to admit on a money saving forum

We believe in money saving, not thieving. What you do in your personal time is up to you, but no-one wants to hear of your illegal doings on this forum. What quite was the point of that post? To sound clever? Well, didn't work

You can download them but it DOES drop quality (has to, the file size compared to a dvd is tiny ratio wise so can't fit as much data and is more compressed obv)... and then there is that cinema experience as well!

Money saving would be to use something like amazon dvd rentals. Breaking the law and thieving would be to download.

yes it was to sound clever...boy u put me in my place! ill be having a good long inwards look at my self tonight. might even go to church and talk to god. thanks for opening my eyes!

lipidicman

anewman wrote:

Organisations such as MPAA and FACT would like you to believe (and will try to drill in to your head with those ads they won't let you get past at the start of a DVD) that downloading a movie is the same as removing items from a shelf and not paying for them. Sorry but news flash... You're not taking any goods, merely downloading ones and zeros which happen to be organised a particular way.

Yeah and art thieves stealing valuable paintings are just stealing some blank canvases and oil paint arranged in a particular way.

mrnomoneybags

RAT? Nevered of it ......... a website with info on would be nice?


-Tom

lipidicman

MercilessKiller wrote:

I must admit I havent heard of RAT :S, but DivX and XviD are compressions and DO take away sound quality and picture quality in some places!

It is important to realise that DVDs themselves are compressed using MPEG2. Now MPEG2 is very old (it takes a long time to develop a hardware format) MPEG4, divX and Xvid are MUCH newer and more efficient therefore a smaller size can be achieved when compressing a DVD source without much loss of quality:there is always some when recompressing a source, however if you could get the original video from the studio and make a 1st gen MPEG4 it could be better than the DVD. Most of the HD demos that have been showing in stores have been HD MPEG4 running off of PC units. The real reason the videos can be rubbish is (like with MP3s online) that the person who created them was an uneducated muppet who doesn't care about your viewing experience!

MercilessKiller

heymylastnameislewis wrote:

yes it was to sound clever...boy u put me in my place! ill be having a good long inwards look at my self tonight. might even go to church and talk to god. thanks for opening my eyes!

...All I'm saying is if you want to break the law, why do you have to post telling people you're doing it? Are you making a point its a good way to money save? By breaking the law?

anewman

lipidicman wrote:

Yeah and art thieves stealing valuable paintings are just stealing some blank canvases and oil paint arranged in a particular way.

Not quite. But if you take a photograph of a piece of art worth millions in an art gallery, this is probably illegal and theft as it is reproduction?! If you take a photograph of a piece of art, then on your camera you have some binary code (organised a particular way) which represents a picture. You can then illegally put this picture on your website and expect to go to jail for 5 years for copyright theft.

Tomlewis007 wrote:

RAT? Nevered of it ......... a website with info on would be nice?

Google is your friend I just looked and it is actually called RatDVD.

MercilessKiller

Its still a very rare format though. Surely if the quality was amazing as such, everyone would use it? Why isnt this the case

lipidicman

MercilessKiller wrote:

Surely if the quality was amazing as such, everyone would use it? Why isnt this the case

We all know that this isn't how things work. For example Ogg Vorbis and Musepack offer better quality than MP3, yet MP3 still reigns with the general public. I usually find that the better something is the less people know about it (maybe not here at MSE as we get our info from other knowledgeable MSE'ers). Linux, Firefox, Openoffice......I could continue.

Contains_Mild_Peril

One of the annoying things about cinemas is that viewers are discouraged from watching the end credits. I often want to see the music credits, which are usually right at the end, but by that time the lights are up and the staff are sweeping up around me, making it clear that although I have paid good money to be there, my presence is no longer welcome. They will even do this at the end of Jackie Chan films, where the outtakes during the credits are sometimes the best bit!
I had to wait till A Knight's Tale was shown on telly to get to watch the extra scene at the end of the credits. The cinema I went to didn't even show it.

lipidicman

I couldn't agree more CMP. Cinemas are, like so many other chain run businesses, are not run by people who actually like what they do. The parent companies squeeze the whole thing for maximum profit and serve up rubbish. This country becomes more and more depressing!