poll Prefer Downloading A Pirated Copy Or Watching On Streaming Service?

[Folk846]

I Like Kind Of Both!

[Osiris]

i prefer to download it because the quality is better!

[gridlock]

love to have'em downloaded for the convenience of watching whenever....

[deepdigger]

Since most of the good stuff nowadays comes from Netflix and the subscription is not expensive, streaming is the right way to go.

[ikey86]

Pirating, I get control over the quality and don't have to worry about quality going down midway through the episode. 1080p HEVC + PotPlayer is my preferred go-to, but H.264 isn't too bad.

[deepdigger]

8 minutes ago, ikey86 said:

Pirating, I get control over the quality and don't have to worry about quality going down midway through the episode. 1080p HEVC + PotPlayer is my preferred go-to, but H.264 isn't too bad.

just out of curiosity which tracker does x265 BRrips?

[ikey86]

1 minute ago, deepdigger said:

just out of curiosity which tracker does x265 BRrips?

I don't think it's exclusive to any one tracker and it varies on the amount, but IPTorrents has x265 Blu-Ray rips. Usually the x264 hits first and you would have to wait for an x265 rip. I've found this pretty common with TV shows, where the 264 is available immediately and then the x265 comes out a week or two later.

[deepdigger]

46 minutes ago, ikey86 said:

I don't think it's exclusive to any one tracker and it varies on the amount, but IPTorrents has x265 Blu-Ray rips. Usually the x264 hits first and you would have to wait for an x265 rip. I've found this pretty common with TV shows, where the 264 is available immediately and then the x265 comes out a week or two later.

Those are scene rips. I thought some tracker have moved on to x265. It's better codec but many tv's still can't play it, and many people play movies from usb on the tv.

And H266 coming out next year, H265 might be ditched and hopefully scene and trackers adopt the new standard.

Edited September 10, 2020 by deepdigger

[ikey86]

2 hours ago, deepdigger said:

Those are scene rips. I thought some tracker have moved on to x265. It's better codec but many tv's still can't play it, and many people play movies from usb on the tv.

And H266 coming out next year, H265 might be ditched and hopefully scene and trackers adopt the new standard.

My bad, i'm not too familiar with scene rips other than knowing a specific group puts their name on a rip.

With H266, I would hope there is hardware built for that encoding, so adoption will probably take a while.

[adiggdam]

Quality Wise, Downloading has been better compared to Streaming.

[Fat Green Zebra]

Both. Depends on what you want to watch.

[IHbuyer2020]

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Edited April 15, 2022 by IHbuyer2020

[A3I4]

Ofcourse downloading

[GeneralZod]

Downloading Pirated Copy

[Animous]

I Like  Both