Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on YouTube?

Re:Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on Yo... by xattt on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @11:57AM (#42951447)

I’d like to note that older movies have often been “live streamed” in an ad-supported format for many decades.

You were even able to use your own equipment to “download” these movies to local “storage” and keep a collection with enough determination. The resolution was often terrible, somewhere around 240i and 360i.

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Re:Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on Yo... by nix0n on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @01:42PM (#42953159)

> The resolution was often terrible, somewhere around 240i and 360i.

It's gotten better, though! The digitization of broadcast TV added a bunch of new channels, which are in HD. They have decimal channel numbers.

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Re:Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on Yo... by xattt on Thursday February 06, 2025 @04:44AM (#42960739)

I was referring to VHS recording which is limited to less-than-broadcast resolutions.

DVD and HDD PVRs for analog broadcasts did capture at 480i but were wildly expensive.

Subchannels are an interesting concept, but suffer from compression loss from packing in multiple streams into a single 6 MHz slice that would otherwise be a single channel.

Don’t get me started on the fact that we are limited at 1080i as well.

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