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Will HDTV saturation be reached before the first channels are on air? (TRANSLATION)
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The people in charge should finally change
onto the fast lane before more hd-movies will be available in filesharing programmes
than in the regular european market.
Usegroups/Newsgroups as an ALTernative.BINary.HDTV-archive. |
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0. Daily Facts
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Currently, more and more HD-movie releases are accumulating in several filesharing
programmes.
Six month ago, there were just some trailers and samples taken from tv-series,
but no complete movie. Today, you could find the first complete
HD-movies and the numbers are increasing. If there is absolutely no chance
of legally getting the beloved HDTV material, the HD-addicted know ways
of getting their "stuff".
But when there is no chance of receiving HD-Prgrammes and movies "over
the air" and there are only 2 DVDs on sale (
Tomb Raider 2 (klick for Review!) and Taxi 3) where do the movies
come from?
They were recorded from the variety of the US HD-channels and then put
into the sharing list of a filesharing programme.
First, they had been re-encoded into NTSC / PAL videoformats (zb. Star
Trek Enterprise and Alias), but now they are in untouched quality and
size.
Hugh file sizes of about 10gb per movie were the major inhibition, but
this seems to be no obsticle anymore.
Possible reasons:
The number of DSL-connection and flaterates is rising continiously, and
according to a sruvey these connection are basically used for filesharing.
Furthermore, since the first DVD rips and images of >4.3gb came up,
the user have got used to hughe filesizes and recording to one- and dual
layer DVDs is also getting normal to avarage users.
Additionally, some of these movies had been re-encoded with the "more
effective" WMVHD Codec, which reduces the filesize from 10gb to 4gb
without a visible loss of quality.
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Star Trek: Enterprise
Alias
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1. Checked Filesharing Networks
We did not find HD-movies in every filesharing network, because each network has
a special field of application.
Gnutella 1 and 2 (Kazza) were designed for smaler files like music files and pictures.
But they are traded in Bittorrent and eDonkey2000/Emule. How long they will keep
their exclusive status is difficult to predict.
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1a. Bittorrent:
Precursor in spreading them is the Bittorrent netzwork. Designed for
submitting hugh filesizes it is perfect for HD-movies. Because of this
feature, we found more than 20 movies in MPEG2 and WMV (also in AVI container
and including AC3 (Dolby Digital))during our recherche. How many movies
there really are is difficult to say, because Bittorrent does not include
a search function. The complete file identification properties (Name,
size, format, etc), the Hash count, is written in a certain *.torrent-file,
which has to be additionally downloaded from the internet first. Only
after downloading it, Bittorrent is able to find the right file and starts
downloading it from other users.
A disadvantage to the user, but an advantage to the copyright owner, would
be that most of the trackers to the movies are not reachable anymore or
that there was no complete file of the wanted movie on the other users
computer anymore. So it would be impossible to finish downloading.
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1b. eDonkey2000/Emule:
The case is vice versa in the well known eDonkey2000/Emule network. About
10 movies are available, but these are complete files and are shared by
a lot of users, as well as the searching function helps finding the wanted
files. This will definitely change soon, because Emule started to distribute
them later and the amount if users are much higher than Bittorrent. |
2. Proposal
The industry should follow a smooth fight against HD-movie piracy, because the
majority of all releases is provided via Usegroup/Newsgroup.
As a first appromiximation, all files found in Emule and Torrent combined are
1% of the total number of files released in usegroups and finally finding their
way into public. This invisible iceberg is a private group, to which you are only getting access
to by monthly fees. If the industry will keep their strict policy and fight
against Emule and Co users, a lot of growing HD-addicted will flee into the
paid anonymity of a newsgroup, just to get their beloved material.
An alternative would be the exemplary works of Concorde-Home
Entertainment in germany and TF1 in france, who will be publishing more
movies in wmvhd on DVD. The launch of Blu-Ray
und HD-DVD
onto the market should be pushed additionally. If you are honest, who would
deny having a beautiful OriginalDVD with box, rather than an ugly DVD-R. Furthermore
you would be able to legally record the tv-programm of www.euro1080.tv
and more upcoming channels on DVD and their successors. Please, don not establish
a broadcastflag,
which restricts recording and copying! This would lead to more non acceptance
and the user would also leave for usegroups.
If there will be a fast developement, the potential consumer, the early adopter,
would get it via illegal sources and he would be saturated so far, that he would
not be interested in buying when the movies are available.
No selling <=> no choice, that leads to the allways present chicken -
egg princip. And this situation is not acceptable for each party, and this principle
has to be overcome.
The last thing to do is praying, that the industry would be starting with suplying
us with movies before the saturation will be reached!
3. It is still illegal!
Throughout all of my explanation, you always should be aware of, that it is prohibited
to get and share copyright protected material. We will NOT publish illigal links
and we will NOT answer qustions about hints and sources!
4. Supplement
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4.2. Copyright
All mentioned names and brands are properties of the the owner. This text is just for informative purpuse only.
Copyright 2004 | Andreas Hornig
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If you encouter a misspelling please let me know! English is not my mothertongue.
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