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From: - Bobb - on 5 Jun 2010 22:09 First time I'd seen this on a DVD. Can someone familiar with it tell me - if I go to WB site and download " My Digital Copy " of Batman - the Dark Knight, how long would it take to download a 2.5 hr movie ? and how much disk space ? Do most/any of you elect to do so ?
From: JD on 6 Jun 2010 08:07 On 06/06/2010 3:09 AM, - Bobb - wrote: > First time I'd seen this on a DVD. Can someone familiar with it tell me - if > I go to WB site and download " My Digital Copy " of Batman - the Dark > Knight, how long would it take to download a 2.5 hr movie ? and how much > disk space ? Do most/any of you elect to do so ? > > Compleatly depends on your bandwidth, here's a good example for you I downloaded Crysis from steam (10GB) it took about 1hr 30 min, I noticed it was going @ 800Kbps or more at some points (I have 8mb downstream), if your getting your files from a dedicated provider it should be pretty quick, a digital copy of a DVD can be compressed to just over a gig. JD
From: Alex Clayton on 7 Jun 2010 11:02 "- Bobb -" <bobb(a)noemail.123> wrote in message news:huf00p$p7f$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > First time I'd seen this on a DVD. Can someone familiar with it tell me - > if I go to WB site and download " My Digital Copy " of Batman - the Dark > Knight, how long would it take to download a 2.5 hr movie ? and how much > disk space ? Do most/any of you elect to do so ? > > It will depend on quality, and provider. I make a copy of DVDs so I can watch them when I want then delete them. Most standard DVDs are around 7.5 GIGs. Blu-Rays are about 6 times that. They can be compressed different amounts, even as far as 1/7th , but you loose quality. If you have a nice TV you will really see it. -- Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. --Dave Barry
From: JD on 7 Jun 2010 13:27 On 07/06/2010 4:02 PM, Alex Clayton wrote: > "- Bobb -" <bobb(a)noemail.123> wrote in message > news:huf00p$p7f$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >> First time I'd seen this on a DVD. Can someone familiar with it tell >> me - if I go to WB site and download " My Digital Copy " of Batman - >> the Dark Knight, how long would it take to download a 2.5 hr movie ? >> and how much disk space ? Do most/any of you elect to do so ? >> >> > > It will depend on quality, and provider. I make a copy of DVDs so I can > watch them when I want then delete them. Most standard DVDs are around > 7.5 GIGs. Blu-Rays are about 6 times that. They can be compressed > different amounts, even as far as 1/7th , but you loose quality. If you > have a nice TV you will really see it. yes most DVD's are dual layer, but the digital copy I believe he is referring to is provided so that you dont rip/ circumvent the protection on the DVD I think BLU-Ray discs were the first to do it, I'm pretty sure it will be a compressed AVI or similar I doubt the want people downloading Huge amounts of data from them, but I could be wrong. JD
From: Alex Clayton on 7 Jun 2010 15:06
"JD" <No.Reply(a)Sorry.com> wrote in message news:4c0d2b8f$0$28010$db0fefd9(a)news.zen.co.uk... > On 07/06/2010 4:02 PM, Alex Clayton wrote: >> "- Bobb -" <bobb(a)noemail.123> wrote in message >> news:huf00p$p7f$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >>> First time I'd seen this on a DVD. Can someone familiar with it tell >>> me - if I go to WB site and download " My Digital Copy " of Batman - >>> the Dark Knight, how long would it take to download a 2.5 hr movie ? >>> and how much disk space ? Do most/any of you elect to do so ? >>> >>> >> >> It will depend on quality, and provider. I make a copy of DVDs so I can >> watch them when I want then delete them. Most standard DVDs are around >> 7.5 GIGs. Blu-Rays are about 6 times that. They can be compressed >> different amounts, even as far as 1/7th , but you loose quality. If you >> have a nice TV you will really see it. > > yes most DVD's are dual layer, but the digital copy I believe he is > referring to is provided so that you dont rip/ circumvent the protection > on the DVD I think BLU-Ray discs were the first to do it, I'm pretty sure > it will be a compressed AVI or similar I doubt the want people downloading > Huge amounts of data from them, but I could be wrong. > > JD > Yep I was assuming he is talking about the downloads that allow you to watch the movie only. I would assume they are compressed to some extent to make it easier to load. I have never tried one of these since I doubt they have been able to get around the quality loss doing this. Even with a 50% compression I can see a big difference when watched on a good TV. This was why I long ago just started making a copy of the thing that was not compressed. Then after watching it I delete it, but I have no doubt a lot of less honest people make copies to give or sell. The big movie studios did this to themselves though. Real came out with a program to allow people to make a copy but it added DRM's so they could not make copies to sell or give away. The big studios fought them and won, so now people are left with the software that will allow them to make copies that have no DRM on them. Some times it seems that people in charge of these companies, who must be smart to have gotten to where they are, seem to be incredibly stupid in the things they do. -- Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. --Dave Barry |