Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential

Re:Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential by pmr_ on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @04:03AM (#7056072)

How much quality loss people are willing to accept if they are not really keen on the content is astonishing. If you go to the pirate bay and look at some of the comments on the tele-synced copies, R6 with hardcoded Chinese subs and all the other sub-par quality rips there still is a large amount of positive feedback. Sure, there is always someone who doesn't know what any of the cryptic abbreviations in the title mean and is upset about the quality, but those seem a minority to me.

I would really like to see more scientific results on how low the quality can be if the viewer doesn't exactly desire the content but uses it to just pass the time and how that compares to the price of going to the cinema.

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Re:Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential by byuu on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @08:54AM (#7057005)

For music, I can go as low as 128kbps MP3 without noticing much of a difference, and 192kbps without noticing any difference.

For movies, I've always been perfectly happy with DVD recodes into 700MB XviD. Could probably go much lower if they were recoding from a lossless master and using H.265. For most things, the Bluray/1080p quality jump reveals details I don't want to see, like how caked on actor makeup is, and all of their skin complexion issues. Great for nature shows, though.

The cutoff points for me are 64kbps Shoutcasts and telesyncs. At that point, the quality is so bad that it makes me dislike the music or movie I am watching.

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