![]() Just ones that I really like that I will watch repeatedly. I agree with what hestermofet wrote, I don't like the torrents because you don't know what you are getting. I just updated to the latest version and all is fine. I've been on DVDFab for quite a while, and they still seem to be going. If you don't give me a viable digital ownership option I will simply pass on that altogether and you get.nada. Of course, many wouldn't pay anything but those people won't buy anything now either. If all movies could be BR quality for 3 bucks a download that I could actually own and move amongst all my devices, hell, I would be on a buying spree. ![]() I didn't even know you could buy a digital copy from them (not that I would as I would assume correctly it seems that there would likely be issues once I tried to play it on more than a certain number of my multitude of computing devices).īasically, I still don't get how the studios can't see that providing cheap streaming and valid watching/owning experiences (offline) wouldn't vastly increase their ability to sell product. If it gets awesome reviews or I know I will like it, I will buy it - oh, sorry, Ex Machina I bought recently I forgot about (for me it's worth the 15 bucks or so I paid but I knew I would like it before I bought it).Īs per 'purchased' video files from Amazon or Apple, well, I simply don't use those services nor do I ever plan to. I wait to see them on a plane or just don't bother. ![]() I don't even think outside awesome movies most are worth 10 which is why I have pretty much stopped buying movies. That's why I won't pay 3 bucks to rent, I would pay 5 bucks for the option to own it in an ideal world - a huge 66% premium on the off chance its actually good enough to rewatch. Tldr - I am a buyer of content, make it a pain in my ass, I don't buy your content Or, more relevantly, I will be pushed towards torrents as most movies are barely worth 5 bucks. However, once you drm it or require my home theater to be on the net to phone home (not a nice setup) to even watch let alone own something.I will just pass altogether. In that case, I would be a huge movie buyer because then if I get a winner I can watch it over and over and over. Streaming should have brought down the cost of owning a movie to 5 bucks imho. Or pay 15 bucks to own something that needs to phone home to allow me to continue to own it. However, what I won't do is pay 3 bucks to watch a movie and then don't own via a stream. 10-15 bucks is about the max I would pay for a movie these days and that would have to be a pretty hot shit movie (I bought The Martian as my last movie vs probably 20-30 entire seasons of tv I have purchased). That said, I do like to watch the dvd ones I have accumulated over the years (ripped via DVDdecrytper) on occasion. More because at 15-20 bucks a go, I don't think they are good value versus buying a season of 'whatever' for 20-30 bucks which is 10x as long in content. I don't buy movies much anymore - not because I am stealing them or torrenting them. I'd like to know the percentages of people in the world who watch movies on a theater-sized screen, and those who watch on a smartphone. Like others, I just want a digital file, smaller than 4.7 Gb, to put on a drive or server. Who cares about video resolution these days? Just give us the right to rip our Blu-Rays at 720-1080p, so we can let the kids watch on vacation, etc. If the download came from a ripped Blu-Ray, so what? It's being watched on a normal-size television with normal television audio (or a head-rest mounted LCD screen). I don't see it as breaking the law, because I paid for the movie already. I admit, I have given up ripping in favor of downloading stuff I already own, for the simple reason, it's more convenient to DL a good quality file that someone encoded the right way, whereas I would spend hours trying to get it right. I do have a Blu-Ray player, but use mostly for Netflix, and watching stuff already in my collection (regular DVD). The last ripping program I used was DVDFab, before that DVD Shrink. There are still some options for breaking encryption on regular 1080p Blu-ray and DVD's, including DVDFab, DVDFab Passkey and MakeMKV, but the AACS LA, the MPAA and the studios have succeeded in cutting down one of the best programs for decryption. But this does mean that one of the most experienced group of programmers will not be part of the effort to break the new encryption on the Ultra HD Blu-ray discs coming out in March. With streaming becoming ever more popular, ripping one's own discs has fallen by the wayside, and I doubt it was worth the effort to stay in business under increasing pressure by the studios. And there is an official statement on the Slysoft forum, which is still operating for the time being. Over the last couple of days, no one could access the site, and it now appears that pressure from the AACS LA and possibly the government in Antigua have closed Slysoft for good.
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