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  • #46
    Originally posted by Kuciwalker
    Originally posted by Asher
    If this is a joke, it's missing a punchline.

    I'm clearly referring to bitrate.


    Obviously. 100Mbit of bandwidth lets you stream (roughly) 100Mbit video, or at least download high-bitrate video quickly.
    Where the hell would you acquire 100 Mbit/sec video online?

    The **** you get online -- even the fully 1080p stuff -- is almost always bitrate-castrated.
    "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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    • #47
      Originally posted by snoopy369


      It makes it a violation of copyright law, i.e. you have no right to the DVD's contents, and the only extent to which you have such a right is that granted by the rental contract (the rules that you agree to when you sign up).
      I would love to see this enforced in Canada's court of laws -- the same courts that have ruled it legal to upload ripped DVDs to others from a computer.
      "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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      • #48
        Yes, I DanS'ed you. I am very intrigued by this actually, as I'm much more likely to watch movies if I can stream them (even if lowish quality, I haven't joined the HD revolution yet as I'm not that big of a TV/movie watcher).

        (If we get the $600 checks, I may very well buy a $700-800 TV though just to do my part in the economic revival... mmm ...)
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        • #49
          Where the hell would you acquire 100 Mbit/sec video online?


          Other people on the local network who have ripped that material from disc (and/or DLed it, though I'm not sure where they got it).

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          • #50
            Originally posted by Asher


            I would love to see this enforced in Canada's court of laws -- the same courts that have ruled it legal to upload ripped DVDs to others from a computer.
            Well, as I said who knows about Canada. It certainly seems to me to be illegal, and moreover against the spirit of copyright law; you can argue with the latter all you want, and Canada can choose to ignore digital media all it wants (yay virtually nonexistent film industry) but it doesn't make it any more legal in a theoretical sense, nor right
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            I like your SNOOPY POSTER! - While you Wait quote.

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            • #51
              Originally posted by Kuciwalker
              Where the hell would you acquire 100 Mbit/sec video online?


              Other people on the local network who have ripped that material from disc (and/or DLed it, though I'm not sure where they got it).
              So given your 10GB cap and the 50GB size of most Bluray media, you could watch 1 Bluray movie every 5 days if you didn't do anything else on your network.

              Brilliant solution.
              "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
              Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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              • #52
                Local network doesn't count towards the cap. Neither does I2 (which XBLM apparently gets routed over).

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                • #53
                  Looks like I'm waiting for the next medium. I refuse to put money in Sony's scumbag pockets.
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                  • #54
                    Originally posted by snoopy369


                    Well, as I said who knows about Canada. It certainly seems to me to be illegal, and moreover against the spirit of copyright law; you can argue with the latter all you want, and Canada can choose to ignore digital media all it wants (yay virtually nonexistent film industry) but it doesn't make it any more legal in a theoretical sense, nor right
                    I think you grossly underestimate how much film and TV is produced in Canada. Many American TV shows and movies are made in Canada.

                    In a theoretical sense, in Canada, digital media has virtually no laws to protect it. So this discussion of legal vs illegal is nonsense.
                    "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                    Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                    • #55
                      Originally posted by Kuciwalker
                      Local network doesn't count towards the cap. Neither does I2 (which XBLM apparently gets routed over).
                      And how many of your network peers have a good selection of 50GB Bluray rips?
                      "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                      Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                      • #56
                        Three who are always on, and another couple who are on intermittently.

                        And even relatively low-bitrate HD h264 looks pretty good, for the other stuff.

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                        • #57
                          I seriously doubt they have more than a few Bluray movies at their original bitrates on a fileshare. If they do, they're very, very stupid.
                          "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                          Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                          • #58
                            Routing HD signals out of a computer and into an HD monitor.
                            Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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                            • #59
                              Originally posted by Oerdin
                              Routing HD signals out of a computer and into an HD monitor.
                              This is the most bizarre statement I've seen in quite some time.

                              Putting arms through the t-shirt arm holes.
                              Putting legs in pant legs.
                              "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                              Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                              • #60
                                No worries about the format of hardware as long as you keep it all on a hard drive. Just about every HD video out there is now available free of charge on the net anyway. Piracy.
                                Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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